Almudín | Cultural València

The Almudín dates from the early fourteenth century. It is a building built on the Muslim Ksar, which can be visited in the Plaza de San Luis Bertrán, famous above all for its fountain built in Xàbia stone.

The original building served as storage and wheat sales space. The city had to be responsible for its provisioning, safekeeping and subsequent distribution. It soon proved that its dimensions were insufficient and during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries it underwent new extensions.

Of its exterior architecture highlights the porch raised during the first half of the sixteenth century, as well as the decorative presence of the coats of arms of the city and the always imposing doorway with a semicircular arch.

Inside, the building initially had a central courtyard open to the Valencian sky, which during the seventeenth century proceeded to be covered with a roof, which offers the image of a basilica plan recognizable today. If you enter the interior you can see popular murals alluding to the entry of wheat into the city, historically one of the greatest concerns of its rulers, as well as depictions of the patron saints of the guilds that operated in the grain trade. This mural decoration gives the Almudí an incalculable historical and documentary value. From 1904 to 1989 the building housed the Palaeontological Museum, once the most important museum of its kind in Europe. Currently the collection of which is part of the Museum of Natural Sciences of Valencia. Today L'Almudí, declared an Asset of Cultural Interest, offers its space as a historical monument and mainly as an exhibition hall, and provides the perfect shelter for the different artistic exhibitions that it exhibits inside.

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