The Clock Building, located on Calle Moll del Grau, is one of the most beautiful and emblematic architectural elements of the city of Valencia.
It currently serves as temporary exhibition halls and is the headquarters of the Port Authority of Valencia. In addition, it has been declared an Asset of Local Relevance of the city.
The Valencians mostly know this Catholic church with the name of Church of San Martín, however its official name is that of Parish Church of San Martín Obispo and San Antonio Abad.
It can be found on Calle San Vicente and is considered an Asset of Cultural Interest and a National Historic-Artistic Monument, as well as being one of the oldest churches in the city of Valencia.
Its construction dates back to the reconquest of James I, who took advantage of one of the existing mosques in 1238 to found this parish church.
However, as the dimensions proved to be insufficient as the years went by, it was decided to build the new church, which presents most of its current structure. In 1372 is when construction began on this church with a Gothic style and new floor.
Currently, the Church of Sant Martí has a single nave and chapels between the buttresses, with a polygonal head. As an architectural curiosity, its irregular floor plan stands out, motivated by the necessary adaptation to the existing streets at the time of its construction.
Despite the elapsed time, the Church of Sant Martí retains from its Gothic period the exterior walls with the blinded oculus of its façade. To highlight in this space is the work of Pierre Van Béckere, imported in 1494, which represents sculpted in bronze a scene of Saint Martin and the Poor.
Bombas Gens is a Valencian industrial building that is characterized architecturally by its clear Art Deco style, which currently serves as a center of cultural activities, mainly modern and contemporary art.
La Petxina is currently a sports and cultural complex, located on the Paseo de la Petxina in Valencia.
It is a building from 1895, developed by the famous Valencian architect Luis Ferreres Soler. It is for many the most important work of the professional and a reference of Valencian civil architecture between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
It occupies a total area of 12,875 square meters and served as a slaughterhouse. For this, the interior area was distributed in three slaughter barns for the different types of livestock (cattle, lanar and goats and, finally, sow).
The interior of this slaughterhouse was built with minimal interior decoration and taking advantage of all the possible functionality of the tile. To highlight of its infrastructure were the large windows that supported some roofs, thanks to a structure that was formed with cast iron pillars and lattice beams.
For practical functionality, effective lighting, ventilation and cleaning systems were installed, the latter taking advantage of the irrigation water from the Rovella irrigation canal.
Architecturally, it is a pity that the main façade has not remained intact until today, but in 1940 it was modified to allow the passage of larger trucks.
The old fertilizer factory “José Campos Crespo” is a building of industrial modernist architecture of the early twentieth century (1913) by Demetrio Ribes.
The La Creu del Grau Sports Center has been conceived as a versatile sports center where both sports activities typical of the neighborhood and the private use of a specialized weightlifting center can be accommodated.
The Temple and Tower of Santa Catalina is an Asset of Cultural Interest and is located in Plaza Santa Catalina, in the heart of the city of Valencia.
This church was built over an earlier mosque and by 1245 had acquired the rank of parish.
Initially the construction style of the Church of Santa Catalina was Gothic, with a single nave and side buttresses in which the chapels were placed. Although there were more Valencian Gothic churches, this is the only one that, like the cathedral, had an ambulatory at its head.
However, the passage of the years and certain events that have occurred during all this time, have caused profound changes in the building.
First of all, it proceeded with a rehabilitation in the sixteenth century, in order to better adapt the Church of Santa Catalina to the Renaissance style. However, a fire in 1548 destroyed much of the infrastructure that was only partially rebuilt.
In 1785 another transformation took place, this time to adapt the Baroque style to its architectural appearance.
The plot of land of the old S. A. Cross factory complex was located next to the now disappeared railway line Valencia-Grao, of paramount importance in the development of this industry.
The Cross factory in the city of Valencia must be understood in the Valencian agricultural development during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, in the manufacture of fertilizer products, replacing or complementing traditional fertilizers.
The dating of its construction and the historical evolution of the S. A. Cross, presents difficulties due to the scarcity of archival data on this subject, although it is an industry built in the twentieth century.
Chimney of the disappeared Sant Pau Flour Mill located in the garden square between Vall de la Ballestera and Eduardo Soler i Pérez streets (next to the 9 d’Octubre Hospital).
The Church of Santos Juanes has many denominations among Valencians. There are those who identify it as the Royal Parish of Santos Juanes and who refer to it as the Church of San Juan del Mercado, in relation to its location in the Plaza del Mercado.
It is a Catholic church declared an Asset of Cultural Interest and a National Historic-Artistic Monument.
Its privileged location, its historical importance and the magnitude of its architecture and decoration, make it one of the most important churches in the entire city of Valencia, as well as one of the most visited.
The style that was originally conferred on the Church of Santos Juanes is that of a Valencian Gothic structure. From this it is still possible to identify its nave and the large blinded occulus, which is popularly known as the “O of San Juan”, an enormous rose window that appears on its façade.
The Church of Santos Juanes could not keep its original infrastructure intact, because in 1592 it suffered a major fire that required an almost total reconstruction of the entire building. The works lasted during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
It was designed by the architect Luis Ferreres Soler in 1895, in a context of concern about the provision of hygienic and public health measures that resulted in the prohibition of placing unhealthy activities within the city. Because of this, it was built on the outskirts of the city, on the old road to Madrid, in the vicinity of the Rovella irrigation canal, which favored its flood cleaning. The works were completed in 1902. It was considered the best slaughterhouse in Spain, occupying an area of about 12,875 m².
The Church of Santo Tomás and San Felipe Neri, also known by the Valencians as the Church of the Congregation, Asset of Cultural Interest and National Historic-Artistic Monument, can be discovered in the Plaza de San Vicente Ferrer, also popularly called “Plaza de los Ducks”.
This church was built between 1727 and 1736. It was the work of the architect and also Valencian mathematician Tomás Vicente Tosca, known above all for his work with the plan of the city of the early eighteenth century.
The architect Vicente Tosca started from his classical ideas for the construction of the Church of Santo Tomás and from the Baroque models of Rome for a large part of its infrastructure, recognizable above all on the façade.
It is built in red tile with stone elements in highlight. It is part of the same shape as the Roman church of Gesu and is formed by two bodies.
The first is a smaller one that is wider. It has crowned an entablature and a lowered arch over the door. The second is a narrower upper body with two large volutes on its sides.
The Old Abastos Market was built, at the request of the mayor of the city, Baron de Cárcer, as a wholesale market for wholesalers in the province and other parts of the territory. At the time it was considered the best in Spain and one of the most important in Europe. Designed by the architect Javier Goerlich Lleó based on functionalist criteria, the works began on December 1, 1940 and, after several interruptions, ended on June 28, 1948.
