Residence of the Intendant General of the Kingdoms of Valencia and Murcia and Justice Mayor of Valencia in the eighteenth century, built between 1728 and 1732.

It is located in front of the Carmen Church, built at the end of the seventeenth century, and which has a peculiar baroque doorway, forming both buildings one of the most characteristic spaces of the Carmen neighborhood.

The plan of the palace is approximately rectangular and the building consists of a lobby, mezzanine, two floors and attic. At the rear a wing was later built that, with the rear façade and the walls, delimits a garden with a large palm tree in the center and that is currently the terrace of the cafeteria. The building has undergone various interventions over time, such as the turret attached to the rear façade, possibly from the beginning of the century, or the multiple changes in the tabiquería caused by its use as a school and later convent-residence.

The Palace of Pineda was the first house owned by the Angelic Mothers in Valencia and where the founder Santa Genoveva Torres lived before leaving for Zaragoza. The building was acquired around 1918 and the Angelica remained in it until 1978. During those years, the Palacio de Pineda was a convent-residence in which lived not only elderly women but also women who, due to studies or work, moved to Valencia and had nowhere to stay. The place had the capacity to accommodate about 60 people. Although during the Civil War the building suffered hardly any damage, the flood of 1957 seriously damaged the palace.

Since 27 January 1992 it has been the headquarters of the Menéndez Pelayo International University in Valencia. This building is next to the Valencian Institute of Modern Art, the Carmen Center, the Valencian Council of Culture, the La Beneficència Cultural Center or the Museum of the nineteenth century, one of the configuring elements of the intense sociocultural space of the northwest part of the Carmen neighborhood, contributing in a very important way to the rehabilitation and regeneration of this.

Every year, the Menéndez Pelayo International University in Valencia is sponsored by around 60 public and private collaborating entities that make possible the development of its activities. These entities, as founding members since 1988, are the Generalitat Valenciana, the Diputació de València and the City Council of Valencia, as well as all the universities of the Valencian Community, with which there are collaboration agreements for the recognition of free-elective credits.


Dades bàsiques

Direcció:

Plaza del Carmen, 4
46003 Valencia

Més informació:
http://www.uimp.es/sedes/valencia/sede-de-valencia.html