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The current Fallero Museum of Valencia has been installed since 1971 in the former Convent of the Casa Mission de San Vicente de Paül, which was finished in 1831, which is why it preserves part of a structure of corridors and old cells. Later it had multiple uses, as a prison, barracks or warehouse. The Fallero Museum was rehabilitated and restructured in the early nineties of the twentieth century, being reopened in 1995. In 2016 the Fallero Museum was approved as an Official Museum of the Generalitat Valenciana, being again restructured in its museological and museographic approaches. One of the novelties of this restructuring was the opening of the temporary exhibition hall "Josep Alarte", dedicated to anthological exhibitions of the work of Fallas artists.
2. Central Market
Mercado Central or Mercat Central is a public market located across from the Llotja de la Seda and the church of the Juanes in central Valencia, Spain. It is one of the main works of the Valencian Art Nouveau.
3. Valencia Cathedral
Valencia Cathedral, at greater length the Metropolitan Cathedral–Basilica of the Assumption of Our Lady of Valencia, also known as St Mary's Cathedral, is a Roman Catholic church in Valencia, Spain.
4. Torres dels Serrans
The Serrans Gate or Serranos Gate, also known as Serrans Towers or Serranos Towers is one of the twelve gates that formed part of the ancient city wall, the Christian Wall, of the city of Valencia, Spain. It was built in Valencian Gothic style at the end of the 14th century. Its name is probably due to its location in the northwest of the old city centre, making it the entry point for the royal road connecting Valencia with the comarca or district of Els Serrans as well as the entry point for the royal road to Barcelona, or because the majority of settlers near there in the time of James I of Aragon were from the area around Teruel, whose inhabitants were often called serrans by the Valencians. Alternatively, the gate may also have been named after an important family, the Serrans, who lived in a street with the same name.
5. L'ETNO - Museu Valencià d'Etnologia
The Valencian Museum of Ethnology is a museum located in the city of Valencia, mediterranean Spain. The museum mission defines it as cultural institution primarily devoted to collect, research and communicate the tangible and intangible heritage related to traditional and popular Valencian culture. The mission underlines that the museum also aims to permanently question fundamental aspects of the culture, as the dynamics that built it and force it to evolve, as well as its diversity. Although fundamentally devoted to Valencian cultural identity within a Mediterranean context, this museum also works to give visitors the chance to understand the challenges and dynamics of culture as a whole and from a contemporary perspective.
6. Parc de Capçalera
Parque de Cabecera or Parque de la Cabecera is a municipal park in the city of Valencia, located at the western end of the municipality, in the neighborhoods of Sant Pau and Campanar. To the west it borders Mislata, and to the south with the district of Soternes; To the east, it adjoins the architectural barrier of Avenida de Pío Baroja. It occupies the part of the old Turia riverbed between its detour towards the new Turia riverbed, which runs south of Valencia, and the beginning of the Turia Gardens, at the Nuevo de Octubre bridge: the head of the river within the municipality. The park, completed in 2008, is one of the largest in the city.
7. Falla de l'Ajuntament
The Falla of the Plaza del Ayuntamiento de Valencia, also referred to as Falla Plaza del Caudillo or Falla del País Valencià, as the name of the square where it is planted has changed, is the fault that is planted by the City Council of Valencia. Although, voluntarily, there are faults that decide not to participate in the scoring system of the Central Fallera Board, this is the only one that is always out of the contest. It is considered that the first fault is the one planted in 1942, with the So Quelo as the protagonist of the finish, although, as in most faults, there are precedents of faults planted in the nineteenth century.
8. Iglesia Parroquial de Cristo Rey
The church of San Vicente de la Roqueta, today called Cristo Rey, is a Roman Catholic church located in the city of Valencia (Spain). The primitive church was built on a mound of rock where, according to tradition, a martyrium had been built over the tomb of the deacon and martyr Vincent. This saint was martyred in Valencia at the beginning of the fourth century, and his remains were hidden and much later buried in this place, which at that time was outside the walls of late Roman Valencia, and next to the ancient Via Augusta that ran through the city. The remains of the martyr were venerated here for centuries.
9. Banys de l'Almirall
The Baños del Almirante is a building in the district of La Xerea, district of the Old Town of Valencia near the Palace of the Admiral of Aragon, of Islamic architecture, built in the thirteenth century and used until the twentieth. The Baños del Almirante is a humble bath building that serves to know how the daily life of the less privileged classes of the city of Valencia worked. A sociability developed among women and men, sexes who met on different days or at different times. The bath was an exercise in practical hygiene and allows us to know the social relations of each of the periods.
10. Torre del Micalet
The Miguelete Tower is the bell tower of the Valencia Cathedral in Valencia, Spain. It is known as El Miguelete in Castilian Spanish or Torre del Micalet in the Valencian language. Construction of the tower began in 1381 and was completed in 1429. Due to its complexity and long years of construction, it was successively directed by several master builders; the first being Andrés Juliá, from 1381. Others were José Franch (1396), Pedro Balaguer ; to Martín Llobet (1425), the last of the architects to work on the construction. Subsequently, the belfry was added (1660-1736).
11. Parc Central
As a railway and urban operation, the Valencia Central Park project is the most important project currently being undertaken by the city of Valencia. From a railway point of view, Valencia is part of the network of Spanish cities connected by high speed and, when this action is completed, it will have a greater capacity for commuter services. On the urban side, thanks to the burial of the railway, part of the city centre will be recovered with a new park of 244,000 m² and new public facilities, also facilitating the integration of neighbourhoods now divided by the railway.
12. Parc de Marxalenes
Marxalenes Park is a public park in Valencia, Spain, located in the north of the city, in the district of La Saïdia. Its realization was the result of the long demand of the Marxalenes Neighborhood Association of this area of the neighborhood, which qualified as an urbanizable area and managed to reclassify it as a green area. Its total area is approximately 8 hectares between the streets of San Pancracio, Luis Crumiere, Poeta Fernández Heredia, Reus and Periodista Llorente. It is connected by tram line 4 that stops at Marxalenes Station and Reus Station.
13. Jardins d'Aiora
The Palace and Garden of Ayora, is a set formed by a recreational town and the landscaped area that is around it, which is located in the Ayora neighborhood, belonging to the Camins district to the Grao in the city of Valencia. The gardens and the palace have several accesses through different streets, the access to the palace would be on the street of Los Santos Justo and Pastor and the accesses to the gardens and other facilities that complete the whole, through the streets of the industry, of Jeroni de Jeroni Montsoriu and the humanist furió.
14. Parc d'Orriols
The Orriols Municipal Park or Orriols Garden is a public park in Valencia located in the north of the city, in the Orriols neighborhood and near San Lorenzo. It takes the form of an inverted L. It is located next to the City of Valencia stadium and near Alfauir street. It is served by tram line 6 that stops at the Estadio del Levante station. It is surrounded by Santiago Rusiñol Street to the north, Beata Genoveva Torres Street to the east, San Vicente de Paul Street to the west and Architect Tolsà Street to the south.
15. Reina Sofia Palace of the Arts
Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía is an opera house, performing arts centre, and urban landmark designed by Santiago Calatrava to anchor the northwest end of the City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia, Spain. It opened on 8 October 2005; its first opera staging was of Beethoven's Fidelio on 25 October 2006. Tenor and conductor Plácido Domingo has maintained a special relationship with the Palau since its founding and has established a young singers training program there.
16. Alqueria Julià
The Alquería de Juliá, also called Huerta de Juliá, was located in the orchard of Valencia on the way to Mislata, and is currently located in the urban grid of the city of Valencia (Spain) between the current Avenida del Cid and the old bed of the Turia river, the complex has a façade to the streets Democràcia, Velázquez and Paseo de la Pechina. It is a seventeenth-century agricultural complex built in Mannerist and Baroque styles.
17. Complex Esportiu - Cultural Abastos
The Mercado de Abastos is a building located in the Spanish city of Valencia. It is located in the southeast expansion of the city, between Alberique and Buen Orden streets, occupying two blocks of the plot. It covers an area of 23,800 m², and was executed between 1939 and 1948 as a project by the architect Javier Goerlich Lleó, with the impetus of the then mayor of the city, Joaquín Manglano y Cucaló de Montull, Baron of Cárcer.
18. Parc de l'Antic Hospital
Parc de l'Hospital is a municipal garden in Valencia, in the neighbourhood of San Francisco in Ciutat Vella. It occupies an area of just over 22,000 m² and is protected as an Asset of Cultural Interest (BIC) in the complex of the Hospital Vell and the Hermitage of Santa Llúcia, two historic buildings that are integrated into the park. In addition, we can also find the Museu Valencià de la Il·lustració i de la Modernitat (MuVIM).
19. Teatre Talia
The Talia Theatre in Valencia is located at number 31 Calle de los Caballeros in the capital of the Turia. The building, owned by the Casa dels Obrers de Sant Vicent Ferrer, has 100 years of history. By virtue of an agreement, the space has been managed since 1992 by Teatres de la Generalitat Valenciana. The hall has 243 fixed seats, 62 boxes on the first floor, 48 amphitheatre seats and 36 boxes on the second floor.
20. Oceanogràfic of Valencia
L'Oceanogràfic is an oceanarium situated on the dry Turia River bed to the southeast of the city center of Valencia, Spain, where different marine habitats are represented. It was designed by the architect Félix Candela and the structural engineers Alberto Domingo and Carlos Lázaro. It is integrated inside the cultural complex known as the Ciutat de les Arts i de les Ciències. It was opened on 14 February 2003.
21. Palau del Marqués de Dos Aigües
The Palace of the Marquis of Dos Aguas is a Rococo nobility palace, historically important in the city. It is located in one of the most central locations in the city of Valencia (Spain). It is a stately mansion that was the property of the Marqueses of Dos Aguas and is currently owned by the Spanish State. It houses the González Martí National Museum of Ceramics and Decorative Arts.
22. Valencia History Museum
The History Museum of Valencia (MhV) is a museum located in the city of Valencia whose mission is to know and publicize the historical development of the city. It was inaugurated in 2003 proposing the past of the city in a didactic and entertaining way, with innovative proposals of the current museography and combining the use of traditional exhibition resources and new technologies.
23. Ermita del Pilar
The hermitage of El Pilar is a temple located in the Valencian hamlet of Les Cases de Bàrcena. It is an Asset of Local Relevance with identifier number 46.13.074-004. It was built in the mid-eighteenth century, completely bleached and with a gabled roof that covers the hermit's house attached to one side. It retains the well and trough by the road used by the cavalry in the past.
24. Església del Pilar
The church of El Pilar, or Church of Nuestra Señora del Pilar y San Lorenzo is the church of the old Dominican convent of the same name, and is mainly what remains of it. The district of Velluters or El Pilar, named after the old convent, is located. More precisely, it is located between Calle Guillem de Castro, Calle de Maldonado and Plaza del Pilar, in the city of Valencia.
25. Valencian Institute of Modern Art
The Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, also known by the acronym IVAM, was the first center of modern art created in Spain, opening in 1989 in the city of Valencia. The Institut Valencià d'Art Modern is an important center for modern and contemporary art in Spain and Europe. Nuria Enguita Mayo was the Director of the museum between September 2020 and February 2024.
26. Palau dels Boïl d'Arenós
The Boïl d'Arenós Palace, also known as the Casa del Señor de Bétera, located at Calle de los Llibrers, 2 in the Xerea district of Ciutat Vella in Valencia, is a building declared of cultural interest, built on a corner plot owned by the Boïl family. It follows the typology of Valencian medieval palaces but refined and revised by later customs and traditions.
27. Col·legi del Patriarca
The Royal Seminary College of Corpus Christi, also known as the College of the Patriarch, is a seminary founded in 1583 by Juan de Ribera, archbishop and viceroy of Valencia and patriarch of Antioquia, who three years later laid the first stone. It is located in the Plaza del Colegio del Patriarca, in the Xerea district of the city of Valencia.
Wikipedia: Reial Col·legi del Corpus Christi de València (CA)
28. Jardins de la Glorieta
The Glorieta Gardens, known simply as the Glorieta, are gardens in the city of Valencia, located in the Xerea neighbourhood, in the Ciutat Vella district. It is bounded by the streets of General Tovar, General Palanca, Plaza de la Puerta del Mar to the east and to the south bordered by Plaza de Alfonso el Magnánimo and the Palace of Justice.
29. Fuente Pública
The Public Fountain, popularly known as the Pink Panther, due to its shape and colour, is a monument located at the intersection of Avenida de Ausiàs March and Avenida de Peris i Valero, south of the city of Valencia. It was designed by the Valencian architect Miquel Navarro and erected in 1984. It commemorates the Túria-Júcar canal.
30. La Dama Ibèrica
Dama Ibérica is the name given to a sculpture by the artist Manolo Valdés inaugurated in 2007 at the intersection of Avenida de las Cortes Valencianas and Calle la Safor in the Valencian district of Benicalap. The monument is a tribute to the Lady of Elche, is 18 m high and is made up of more than 20,000 small pieces in cobalt blue.
31. Teatro Rialto
The Rialto Cinema Theatre located in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento number 17 in the city of Valencia (Spain) was built in 1939 at the initiative of the González Galindo family, with a project by the architect Cayetano Borso di Carminati. The project responds to the rationalist style, although with influences of Valencian art deco.
32. Royal Parish of the St Johns
Santos Juanes or Sant Joan del Mercat is a Roman Catholic church located in the Mercat neighborhood of the city of Valencia, Spain. The church is also denominated the Real Parroquia de los Santos Juanes or San Juan del Mercado due to its location adjacent to the city Central Market and facing the Llotja de la Seda building.
33. Alqueria dels Moros
La Alquería del Moro, a rural residential building located in the municipality of Valencia, in the province of Valencia, on the old road to Burjasot. It is a residential building that is a compendium of the stately and rural architecture of the Valencian orchards of the fourteenth, sixteenth and eighteenth centuries.
34. Sant Joan de la Creu
The church of Sant Joan de la Creu was founded after the Christian conquest of the city, and was built on the site of a mosque. It is located in the Xerea neighbourhood, facing Calle del Poeta Querol and between Vilaragut, Pròcida and Sant Andreu streets in the city of Valencia, Valencia.
35. Iglesia de San Martín
The church of San Martín, San Martín Obispo and San Antonio Abad, is one of the oldest in the city of Valencia, located at the beginning of San Vicente street. Its origin must be sought in the conquest of the city by James I, being in principle a mosque consecrated to Catholic worship.
36. Iglesia de las Escuelas Pías
The church of the Pious Schools, located on Calle Carniceros in Valencia (Spain), was built in the eighteenth century in the Baroque style and is a representative example of the architectural moment that the city of Valencia experienced in the last third of the eighteenth century.
37. Parc de l'Oest
Parque del Oeste is a municipal park in Valencia located to the west of the city, between Camí Molí and Avenida de la Diputación, in the Tres Forques neighbourhood. It is, according to Mayor Joan Ribó, "one of the most popular parks loved by citizens".
38. Palau del marques de campo
The Palace of the Marqués de Campo or Berbedel is located in Plaza del Arqueobispo n. 3 in the city of Valencia. It is a residential building built in the seventeenth century, with works carried out in the nineteenth century. It houses the City Museum.
39. Església de Sant Agustí i Santa Caterina
The parish church of Santa Catalina y San Agustín, located at 5 Mare de Deu de Gràcia street in the city of Valencia, Spain, is the church of the former convent of hermit friars of San Agustín settled in Valencia in the thirteenth century.
Wikipedia: Iglesia de Santa Catalina y San Agustín (ES), Website
40. Jaume I
Jaume I or the Monument to James I is an instance of public art in Valencia, Spain. The monument is topped by an equestrian bronze statue representing James I of Aragon, conqueror of Valencia in 1238 and founder of the Kingdom of Valencia.
41. Teatre Principal de València
The Teatro Principal de València, meaning Main Theatre of València, is a theatre in Valencia, Spain. It is located in downtown Carrer de les Barques, close from the City Hall, as well as the Northern Station and the adjacent Bullring.
42. El Parotet
The Parotet is a well-known monument located in the Glorieta de Europa, east of the city of Valencia, near the Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències and the Torre de Francia. It gets its name from its resemblance to the dragonfly insect.
43. Palau de l'Exposició
The Palace of the Exposition is a municipal building in the city of Valencia, located at Calle Galicia núm. 1. It was built in 1908 by the architect Francesc Mora i Berenguer following the Valencian modernist and neo-Gothic styles.
44. Jardí de Monforte
The Monforte Garden, also known as the Huerto de Romero, is an ornamental garden in the city of Valencia, located in the Exposition district, between Calle de Montfort, Plaza de la Legión Española and the Quirón clinic.
45. Capella de l'Antic Col·legi de Sant Pau
The chapel of the old San Pablo school in the city of Valencia (Spain) is located on Xàtiva street and was built between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It is located within the current Lluís Vives Institute.
46. Convento de Santa Clara
The convent of Santa Clara de Valencia is located at 119 Pérez Galdós Avenue in the city of Valencia, Spain. It is a cloistered convent founded in 1911 and inhabited by nuns of the Order of the Poor Clares.
47. Teatre El Musical
The Theater El Musical (TEM) is a theater room in the Cabanyal-Canyamelar district (Valencia). The original building was built in 1924 and its construction by the architect Eduardo de Miguel Arbonés in 2004.
48. Casa Natalicia de San Vicente Ferrer
Vincent Ferrer, OP was a Valencian Dominican friar and preacher, who gained acclaim as a missionary and a logician. He is honored as a saint of the Catholic Church and other churches of Catholic traditions.
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