Old Military Prison of Monteolivete (today Fallero Museum and Headquarters of the Central Fallera Junta).
On an old hermitage of Our Lady of Monteolivete, to the right of the Turia riverbed, this building was built in 1826 for the Convent of Paules.
In the same way, the church adjacent to it was built, which was enabled for worship.
In the central gardens of Paseo de la Alameda, at number 39, are the two chimneys of the former Spanish Alcohol Union.
Parts of a Chimney
The chimneys consist of three distinct parts: Base or Pedestal, Reed, Shaft or Tube and Crown, Coronation, Capital or Finish.
Description of the Chimney
It is an isolated chimney house, remains of an old industrial building, built – because it detaches from the typology of the chimney, rectangular base and octagonal shaft of fired tiles – in the decade 1890-1900. Fired tile is used as the basic material, which is a good thermal insulator. The height and section decrease from the base to the top, consisting of its function in causing a depression or shot between the inlet and exit to establish a current of air, contributing this shot to combustion. The inner section decreases as well, in order to retain an updraft to overcome the currents of cold air masses. Its construction is due to the use of steam in the factory.
The site plan is preserved, rectangular floor plan with double entrance, 2 wc. In the section you can see two vaulted galleries with running benches. The longitudinal section shows 6 arches.
Occupying the land recently urbanized on the occasion of the Regional Exhibition of 1909 and National of 1910, the wool factory was made in 1917, occupying almost the entire block with a central courtyard. The architect who designed the project was Alfonso Garín and the reinforced concrete structure was entrusted to the company of Demetrio Ribes and Joaquín Coloma. It is therefore one of the first buildings made with this material in Valencia.
Its façade reflects the power of the company giving a monumental and urban image. It has a continuous, modular and repetitive composition with a great sense of horizontality (it is of two heights) that is contrasted vertically by means of sashed pilasters that protrude from the sill of the building.
It has a certainly proto-rationalist character, conceived as a diaphanous plan, with wide gaps between pilaster and pilaster; Those on the ground floor have low arches and on the upper floor this same module becomes twin windows on small pilasters. In general, it has a classicist approach with modernist Secessionist ornamentation, especially that which occupies the spandrels of the arches, the cornices and the crown or parapet of the façade. At rounded corners small frontispieces with modernist court heads. Above the main door large curved pediment. Under this ornamentation and composition are hidden the characteristics of the open-plan factories of reinforced concrete.
At the moment its use is hotel, the Westin Hotel, although years ago it was occupied as a Central Building of the Local Police and Fire Station.
The Barracks of Sant Joan de la Ribera is part of the military complex built between 1870 and 1880 next to the old site of the convent of Sant Joan de Ribera . The complex consists of two barracks (north and south) separated by Serrano Flores street, which have come to form two huge blocks of rectangular housing.
The building that is preserved today was the chalet-office of the owners of the industrial complex that has been demolished. It is an isolated building with a double T-shaped floor plan, two heights, attic, load-bearing wall structure and two-sided roof. The four facades are identical in composition and hollows, although the main one is the one with the entrances. The hollows are framed by stone semicircular arches, as well as jambs. Elements very typical of mountain architecture.
Currently, the offices of the autonomous municipal body unique parks and gardens and the Municipal School of Floral Art are located.
The Air Force barracks were built in the forties of the twentieth century. Its facilities occupied an entire block between Avenida del Cid, Calle Enguera, Calle Músico Aillón and Calle Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Once the facilities were abandoned in the eighties, Valencia City Council acquired the land for different uses, as a public park in the area overlooking Músic Aillón and Enguera streets, where there were warehouses and buildings of little interest and the main body became the Local Police Station and a small part is destined for a school and the street Santa Cruz de Tenerife, the former home of the military.
Located in the old Paperera Layana at number 3 on Calle Octavio Vicent.
Parts of a Chimney
The chimneys consist of three distinct parts: Base or Pedestal, Reed, Shaft or Tube and Crown, Coronation, Capital or Finish.
Description of the Chimney
It is an isolated chimney house, remains of an old industrial building, built – because it detaches from the typology of the chimney, rectangular base and octagonal shaft of fired tiles – in the decade 1890-1900. Fired tile is used as the basic material, which is a good thermal insulator. The height and section decrease from the base to the top, consisting of its function in causing a depression or draft between the inlet and exit to establish a current of air, contributing this shot to combustion. The inner section decreases as well, in order to retain an updraft to overcome the currents of cold air masses. Its construction is due to the use of steam in the factory.
These industrial chimneys were a basic element of industrial facilities that generated strength in industry from steam, using the experiences of the types of chimneys so typical of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
This construction has been isolated from the accessory constructions that should accompany it in the production process, thus being decontextualized.
Its factories are made of baked tile and consist of a quadrangular base topped by a cornice with denticles that marks the transition line with the trunk, octagonal section and conical in shape; canonical form of these chimneys to prevent the entry of cold air, thus facilitating a current of air by thermal inversion. It is topped with a crown and lantern framed by two tiled mouldings.
The building is of great interest and of great beauty. It is a construction that despite having had profound transformations throughout its existence, these seem to have favored rather than harmed its survival, and its conservation, since the population of Valencia experienced a constant growth in the late nineteenth century, which made necessary a space to exchange seafood.
The refuge has two entrances, one located on the north side and the other on the south arranged in a symmetrical way. It is accessed through a staircase (only the one at the southern access has been well documented) that has a width of 120 cm. with a first section composed of 10 steps made of tile, 120 cm. length by 34 cm. wide and 18 cm counterprint. Each step has an iron corner of about 6 cm. wide. This first flight of stairs ends on a quadrangular landing from which runs a new section composed of 10 other steps, perpendicular to the previous section. At the end of the stairs there is a small rectangular landing and inside you can see different rooms. The central part is divided into three naves arranged longitudinally in a north-south direction. All three have the same dimensions and distribution. The roof is vaulted with tiles, like the walls, with a concrete coating, where successive layers of paint can be seen. In each nave there are benches running around its perimeter. To the north there is access to another room also with a rectangular floor plan but this time oriented in an east-west direction. This room has a perimeter bench on all its sides, opening to an auxiliary room at its eastern end, also with a running bench.
They are part of the military complex built between 1870 and 1880 next to the old site of the convent of Sant Joan de Ribera.
The barracks to the south were once used as a cavalry weapon, which is reflected in the iconography used in the few decorative elements of the main entrance and the grille of the atrium. Slightly more elaborate decoration than in the case of its infantry namesake.
The Old Santa Rosa Sanatorium is located at the confluence of Santa Rosa and Antonio Suárez streets. It has a square floor plan, two heights and a flat roof. The four facades are identical in composition and hollows, although the main one has greater ornamentation.
The hollows are framed by stone semicircular arches, as well as jambs. Balconies with balconies. The crowning of the eclectic building is finished with certain neo-baroque aspects, such as the volumetry of the building and a certain excess in ornamentation, so fashionable in the early twentieth century.
At present, there are the offices of the autonomous municipal body unique parks and gardens and the Municipal School of Gardening and Landscape.
The School of Gardening It provides professional training that covers subjects such as: botany, cultural work in the garden, garden design, knowledge of ornamental flora, different styles of garden design, phytopathology of plants and their treatments, floriculture and ornamental production; with a theoretical-practical training that allows students to address their access to the world of work with a specialized Gardener level training.
