Since the Middle Ages, Plaça del Mercat has had a strong commercial vocation. Here the market was held, first in open-air stalls – the popular “stalls” with their white awnings and colorful merchandise displayed to the public – which from 1839 were completed with a building built for this purpose. With the turn of the century, however, the need for a larger capacity facility became evident.

 

Designed in 1914 by architects Alejandro Soler March and Francisco Guàrdia Vial, former cooperators of Domènech Montaner, work on the Central Market began in 1910 and its completion was delayed until 1928, under the direction of Enrique Viedma, and was inaugurated by Alfonso XIII. The floor plan of the building adapts to the shape of the plot it occupies, of more than 8,000 square meters, solving its roofs by means of innovative domes and different sloping ceilings. The covering frame refers to the great industrial iron architecture, such as those of the North Station or the Columbus Market, while the perimeter walls, which hardly have a support function but rather a closure, are provided with polychrome ceramic plinths at the base and metal "mallorquinas" at the upper end.

Allegorical architecture of steel, it embodies in its symbolic ornamentation the luminosity of the ceramics of the Ceramo and the color of its stained glass windows, all the richness of the Huerta itself.



Dades bàsiques

Horari:

Monday to Saturday: 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Direcció:

Plaza del Mercado, 6
46001 Valencia
Telephone: 963 829 100

Més informació:
www.mercadocentralvalencia.es