Palace of Exarchs

The palaces must have been the residence of the Exarch, a noble family from the world of commerce, as evidenced by the reference, in royal documents, to the recommendation of King Alfonso the Magnanimous towards members of this family for trade between the kingdoms of Valencia and Granada (silk and other Granada textiles).

The origin of the construction is uncertain, the presence of the Exarch family in Valencia dates back to the s. XLLL. The first constructions, or adaptations of the buildings as palaces, could date from the s. XLV probably a single manor house in origin, linked to the Exarch family and later divided into different houses. Ignatius of Loyola probably settled in these houses on his visit to Valencia in 1535 and this is the reason why the chapel built in the seventeenth century is dedicated to this saint.

The complex consisted of five palaces with similar characteristics, originally apparently forming a single block, but this situation must have been modified over time, leaving numbers 9 and 11 independent. Later number 11 was demolished and currently the space it occupied is built leaving only the large entrance portal as the only memory of the old palace and number 9 is a convent of the Capuchin Trinitarians, remodeled in 1978.

Numbers 3, 5 and 7 that are currently in disuse form a unitary construction. On the outside it is difficult to perceive unity, since the three buildings are clearly delimited, on the other hand, inside the distribution is that of a large house.

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