Palace of the Marquis of Campo

The building served as Captaincy General in the early nineteenth century, until in 1840 it became the property of José Campo, Spanish businessman, publisher, shipowner and politician, who was mayor of Valencia and I Marqués de Campo. Its new owner installed his residence and the headquarters of his companies there, undertaking a complete reform.

On the classicist façade there are two huge latticed doors that serve as access to a patio with arcades. A Louis XV-style staircase leads to the first floor that houses different rooms, each with a decorative theme that gives it its name (Arms Room, Ballroom, Imperial Room, Louis XV Room, etc.) although they have hardly preserved original furniture or decoration.

It is worth mentioning the dome of the staircase, of medium orange with drum of eight windows supported on shells, very spacious, decorated with fine Baroque sgraffito of the seventeenth century.

In one of the rooms, which is called "La Serre", originally glazed as if it were a greenhouse, we find eight canvases by José Vergara, the most outstanding Valencian painter of the second half of the eighteenth century. They are the ones he made for the chapel of Santa Rosa de Lima in the Real Casa del Enseñanza.

Next to "La Serre", the chapel of the palace, also rehabilitated, of classicist style.

In 1937 the palace was used by the republican government as the headquarters of the Ministry of Health and Social Assistance.

Today it houses the City Museum, which exhibits various municipal collections of paintings, engravings, collections of weights and measures, etc., which show the history of the city from its foundation in Roman times until the mid-fifteenth century. It also exhibits a large collection of Valencian art from the twentieth century, especially painting.

Site of Cultural Interest. Declared a Local and Provincial Historic-Artistic Monument.