This shelter had the function of sheltering the factory workers inside and protecting them from possible bomb attacks from planes or ships of the national army. The reason for these attacks is explained by the fact that during the war the furnaces of Bombas Gens abandoned their initial production of parts for hydraulic machinery and began to build war material such as mortar grenades and others.
This riurau is located in Mas del Fondo, the municipality of which is found in several municipalities; the riurau is in the municipality of Valencia, departure of Massarrojos. The place where it is located, meets special characteristics that have led to it being preserved in excellent condition.
It is accessed by a dirt road that crosses a forest and fields currently of orange trees (formerly vineyards) and in it is located the riurau and the farmhouse. Near the farmhouse are the trenches of the Puig-Carasols defensive line.
Valencia was one of the most important cities of Al-Andalus. The perimeter of the wall was developed on the island formed between the two arms of the River Turia, being the south used as a moat.
Among the streets of theAngel and of Beneito and Coll in the city of Valencia and forming part of house number 2 of the Plaza de los Navarros, it has been revealed to demolish a house in the aforementioned Angel Street, a rounded tower attached to the remains of the Mohammedan wall. The aforementioned tower undoubtedly belongs to the oldest part of the wall.
The building built in 1903, by the architect Francisco Mora Berenguer and consisting of a ground floor, mezzanine and four floors.
The language used is modernist characterised by a tripartite composition differentiating base, body and finish and rich decoration with elements typical of modernism (organic shapes, floral elements…), formal freedom in the design of the voids (lintel, semicircular lintel, scarlets), incorporation of new and diverse materials and use of traditional and artisan techniques.
The color in this typology is characterized by the introduction of a greater chromatic richness derived from polychromes associated with the use of new materials.
The original use was residential in the tread floors and commercial premises, on the ground floor and/or mezzanine.
Generally at present, they are usually used as residential on tread floors and tertiary uses on the ground floor and / or mezzanine, although we can also find cases, in which the building houses other uses.
Beautiful garden with free layout, with romantic touches that accompanies a beautiful modernist palace built in 1900.
The City Council of Valencia bought the land that currently occupies the Ayora Garden and in 1976 began the works of conditioning, restoration and cleaning of a beautiful garden abandoned to its fate for many years.
With an area of 48,300 square meters and located between the streets of J. Monsó, Conserva, Plaza. Chief Organist and Avenida Santos Justo i Pastor became in 1987 managed and maintained by the Municipal Public Foundation of Unique Parks and Gardens.
Recently expanded, on its sides. Located in a quiet area, the garden has a calm and serene atmosphere, ideal for walking, highlights its lush vegetation, with large specimens of ficus, jacarandas, false acacias, Chinese aligustras, eucalyptus and wool trees.
The whole of this garden is divided into four distinct areas:
The environment is presided over by the beautiful modernist-style mansion built in 1900 by the merchant José Ayora on a project by Peregrin Mustieles, which today houses a Cultural Space of the Popular University. The old garden annexed to the palace, a new, open and functional area of recent construction. The new area of Ayora metro station.
The old Forcalló Palace is the current headquarters of the Valencia Council of Culture.
The Valencian Council of Culture is a consultative and advisory institution of the Generalitat Valenciana in specific matters related to Valencian culture, with the mission of ensuring the defense and promotion of the linguistic and cultural values of the Community.
The activities carried out by the Valencian Council of Culture for the fulfilment of its tasks are diverse and varied.
Among the most outstanding activities are the meetings of the Plenary Session and the Committees where the documents issued by the institution are debated and approved. There are also the protocol acts and visits to institutions and places of interest for the work of the commissions and the groups formed within them.
The Valencian Council of Culture also carries out a series of activities more open to the general public. A good example is the monthly visits of various schools to the Council’s headquarters to see where and how the institution works. Nor should we forget the thematic conferences that, without fixed frequency, are organized to reflect on some of the issues that particularly concern citizens.
The complex consists of a church, the cloistered convent itself, courtyards, houses and warehouses.
The convent was founded in 1502 by Mr. Luis Mercader. Later Mr. Geoffrey Borgia, Bishop of Segorbe, improved and enlarged it. In 1881, Antonio Ferrer Gómez was commissioned to repair and reform the façade. In the period 1936-39 it was completely destroyed, being built again after the Civil War, ending in 1961.
The façade facing Guillem de Castro has a plaster plaster, segmented by pilasters and imposts, also smooth that form a grid in which the openings, all rectangular, are inserted. The ground floor is intended for commercial with independent accesses and semicircular arches. The church has a more differentiated exterior façade and with a small garden at the entrance. The façade to Balmes is less interesting although there is the access to the convent, where the original coat of arms of the Borgias is preserved.
The church has a nave with side chapels and a polygonal head covered with a half-barrel vault, and the main chapel is ridged; Lack of tower. The interior decoration is classicist, very recent and all the altarpieces and images of the church are current except for one of tiles of the eighteenth century, of 2.75 by 1.75 meters, representing the Annunciation, in the main chapel. A stone relief of the same theme, modern, on the façade.
Large villa with irregular polygonal floor plan built in 1920, consisting of one house per floor, side staircase of three sections in 2nd bay, ventilated by muntera, simple hall and without patios. The roofs are tile. The façade has a differential treatment of voids, according to height and plurality of axes of symmetry, which affect reduced cloths of the façade, not the totality.
On the first floor almost all the openings are semicircular arches or panels, there are large balustrades around the base of the tower, which are repeated on the second floor, and new ones are added, plus a large viewpoint between columns, which overlooks the garden, which hierarchizes this floor over the others. On the third floor, which overlooks Calle Sorní, there is a loggia with gaps between pilasters and a ridge finish. The tower has on its top floor, eight horizontal tripartites for pilasters. On its seven visible facades it is crowned as the main body of the building by a large wooden eaves with canelles. Neolateresque language, with one of its party sides with purist building and the others except the one facing Calle Sorní, overlook the garden. The construction of the façade in masonry with smooth plastering is noteworthy, in which the ornamentation and composition of this are of special interest, being neolateresque elements in the treatment of voids, which are generally searched by pilasters, supporting tabernacles.
Other architecturally appreciable elements are the entrance hall to the houses and the interior staircase. Each floor consists of a single house.
The garden is enclosed by wrought iron gate, also wrought iron on stone plinth, with large intermediate factory pillars.
Located next to the Cathedral, from the s. XIII the religious nucleus of the city, the current seat of the Archdiocese was built on the large and irregular site of the old Archbishop’s Palace burned in 1936
The original Episcopal Palace of Valencia was born in the years of the Reconquest of Valencia, from 1238, near the Cathedral, by the donation of a house by King James I and the grouping of constructions that had another destination and that later, with the passage of the centuries, were united with reforms and reconstructions. expanding with the acquisition of new properties and transforming according to the tastes and needs of each era, reflecting in it the materials used and successive modalities and architectural tastes.
This palace building contains the ecclesiastical offices of the Archbishop’s Residence.
It is located on the Camino de la Punta al Mar in the Nazareth neighborhood. It includes a parish complex consisting of the Church, parish house, parish premises and access courtyard.
It is located in an orchard environment with a strong settlement of scattered housing around the old road to La Punta.
The parish complex is a new work dating from 1903 and designed by the then young municipal architect Don Francisco Mora i Berenguer, where the important volumetry of thechurch, the design of its façade and the bell tower, All this solved in a brick factory of good workmanship, which incorporates some elements of limestone within a neo-baroque style, which later would be imposed in many buildings of the city.
The architecture could be defined within an eclectic neo-baroque with certain modernist elements; with a certain chasticistic aftertaste in the parish house. An architecture that with its volumes and profile dominates the landscape
The church has a nave with side chapels and a polygonal head covered with a half-barrel vault, and the main chapel is ridged; Lack of tower. The interior decoration is classicist, very recent and all the altarpieces and images of the church are current except for one of tiles of the eighteenth century, of 2.75 by 1.75 meters, representing the Annunciation, in the main chapel. A stone relief of the same theme, modern, on the façade.
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.
Old church of the House-Hospice of Mercy, designed by the architect Juan Luis Calvo in 1872 and inaugurated in 1883.
Designed in neo-romantic style, it has a Latin cross plan with an apse and two chapels on each side and a dome on a high drum in the transept. Numerous galleries are located along the central nave and transept that, originally and during religious services, allow the public to be isolated from the asylums of the Hospice. Deeply renovated, its main façade currently has an archivolt doorway crowned by a medallion of the Virgin of Charity, and is topped with a small bell tower. The remaining façades offer aspects of the new tiled bodies that, built in the 1950s, surround the rest of the church.
