In the historic centre of Valencia, on Calle del Marqués de Dosaigües, is the palace of the same name. Its main façade, an indisputable jewel of the Rococo style, overlooks Culture Street.

The Palace of the Marqués de Dosaigües is a building that was built around the fifteenth century as a stately mansion of the Rabassa Perellós family, owners of the Marquisate of Dosaigües. The current appearance is the result of a major reform that was carried out on this old manor house in the 1740s.

The building has an irregular quadrangular floor plan, with towers at its corners, and is distributed around a courtyard. Due to the findings that appeared during its reform, it is believed that the space on which the palace was built may have been a Roman necropolis from the first to the third centuries AD.

Its main door was made in alabaster around 1745, by Ignacio Vergara to the design of Hipòlit Rovira. An exercise in impressive artistic voluptuousness headed by the image of the Virgin of Rosario, from which two flows of water descend in allusion to the title of the marquises. Two Atlanteans on the sides symbolize two rivers, the Turia and the Júcar. Beneath them, two pitchers spill water.

The façade was decorated with frescoes by Hipòlit Rovira, but a new reform in 1867 eliminated these paintings, derailed by humidity, which were replaced by gray and pink stucco in imitation of marble.

Inside the palace you can see the floats of the eighteenth century and different rooms of the nineteenth century that retain their original decoration.

The second floor houses the González Martí National Museum of Ceramics and Sumptuary Arts, inaugurated in 1954, one of the most important collections of ceramics in the world.

In the 90s the museum closed its doors to carry out a necessary restoration that endangered the collection of the museum and the building itself.

Site of Cultural Interest. Declared a National Historic-Artistic Monument in 1941.


Dades bàsiques

Horari:

Tuesday to Saturday: from 10 am to 2 pm and from 4 pm to 8 pm
Sundays and public holidays: from 10 am to 2 pm
Closed: every Monday of the year, 1st January, 1st May, 24th, 25th and 31st December and two local holidays

Preu:

3 Euros Groups: Arrange a visit with the Museum. Under 18s, over 65s, unemployed and retired Free admission. Saturday afternoons and Sundays free admission

Direcció:

Street, Culture 6
46002 Valencia
(entrance also via Calle Poeta Querol, 2)

Transport:

Buses: 4, 6, 8, 9, 11, 16, 26, 27, 31, 36, 70 and 71
Metro: lines 3 & 5, station Colón
Public car parks: Plaza de la Reina; Puerta del Mar Square

Més informació:
Telephone: 963 516 392