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The old helmet is delimited by the route of the street
car, that marks the footpath of where up to 1865 they were in favor
the walls of the city. Here we found the greater monument concentration,
pertaining in its great majority to the time of splendor after reconquers
it, in 1238, when Jaime I took the city of hands Moors.
This way a comfortable route on foot can be done, happening through
the last squares and solitary narrow streets that are in Valencia:
We began in the Cathedral, of primitive gothic style (to grief that
to her has added during the successive centuries parts of diverse
styles). It has three covers, a románica, another gothic
and another one barroca.
The Greater Chapel is barroca and lateral the neoclassic ones. It
emphasizes in her his impressive cimborrio, the tower bell tower
of octogonal plant, symbol of the city, to which they call Valencian
the "Micalet" (or Miguelete). From its roof a panoramic
one is descried precious; (and if it has patience like Víctor
Hugo, perhaps it manages to count the 300 bell towers that affirmed
that it had the city).
But the most extraordinary data is if it doubts the Room To capitulate,
where venerates the one that considers Santo Ca'liz who Jesus Christ
consecrated in Ultima Supper. The Museum of the Cathedral exposes
paintings of Goya and Jacomart, orfebrería of Cellini, statures
of Paggibonsi, pictures of the Valencian School of s. XV to the
XVII and one extraordinary Safekeeping that being more modern does
not have less value than others of greater antiquity. Next to the
Cathedral, it is the Basilica of the Virgin of the Abandoned ones,
("Mare de Deu dels Desemparats"), the pattern of the city,
and in an immediate alley the Almudín, warehouse of wheat
of the medieval time, today recovered and turned Museum.
Following towards the East, in a small seat, it is the Church of
San Esteban, where, according to the tradition, the Cid married
to its daughters and San Vicente Ferrer was baptized. In the near
street of the Palau it is the Palace of Admirals de Aragón,
and in the one of Pawl of Horsemen, the Church of San Juan of the
Hospital, of elegant gothic, as it is it, if not still more, the
Convent of Santo Domingo, in the Seat of Tetuán, in spite
of the additions of centuries XIV and XV in its interior or the
cover designed by Felipe II.
The river
In the Turia river we were with three bridges of pointed plan, the
Bridge of the Real one, the Bridge of the Trinidad and the Bridge
of Serranos, with the Towers of Serranosantigua door of the wall
(s. XV), that has as much luxury of arc of Triumph like solidity
of military bastion. The channel of the Turia river, caused in 1957
a flood that it caused numerous dead and it destroyed great amount
of buildings, thus was decided to turn aside it to the outskirts.
Now the old channel of the river is the scene of the sport and of
the recreation of all the Valencians since by him they take a walk,
they run, they go in bicycle (mainly of mountain), play soccer,
rugby, to bases-ball, they slide and they do gymnastics to newspaper
the thousands of citizens who congregate themselves in this pleasant
lung of life that is the River.
The IVAM (Valencian Institute of Modern Art) is a great museum that
does not have to lose the lovers of the new tendencies of the art
(Sculpture and Painting). It constitutes one of the three better
museums of modern art of Spain. It is located opposite of the old
channel of the river, to the height of the School of Languages,
that is right to the other side of the channel.
The Market and its neighborhoods
By the street of Serranos we arrived at the Seat of Manises, where
is the building of the Delegation, located in a beautiful palace
and the later facade of the Palace of the Majority, seat of the
government of the Generalitat.
This building of s. XV offers great interest by paintings murals
of the Hall Cortes, the Doradoy Hall the Gallery Pictures of the
Kings of Valencia. From we arrived here at the street of the Horsemen;
formerly aristocratic district, whose prolongation finishes with
another famous vestibule the Towers of Quart (1441) and to the seat
of the Market where is the one that perhaps is the best Valencian
architectonic monument. The Market, constructed by the Valencian
merchants in 1483 like seat of the Hiring and the Consulate of the
Sea.
Just alongside is barroca Church of the Saints Juans, whose vault
painted by Palomino, at its time had one of greatest paintings murals
of the world and the Bell one of the Church of Santa Catherine,
also baroque. From Winch is arrived here by the street at the Palace
of the Marquess of Two Waters, of Rococo style. Its delirious cover
must to the imagination of painter Hipólito Rovira, who died
crazy.
In contrast to this one it would be of great interest to visit the
School of the Patriarch (1603), by his typical austerity of the
Spanish Renaissance, or the University, neoclassic, that is just
behind, or the neighbor and huge Palace of Justice, also neoclassic,
crowned with a great statue of Carlos III and to few meters, is
the new bridge designed by Valencian architect Santiago de Calatrava,
inaugurated in 1995 and known like the Peineta by the inhabitants
this city.
The
district of the Carmen
It is not possible to be said that the essence is known Valencia
if east district is not known; perhaps most pure-blooded and bullanguero,
he is the superlative one of which in general it is all the city.
Its central seat, to that the streets of greater mercantile movement
flow, and those of the leisure, where they are the credited spectacles,
bars and restaurants more, present/display the most alive spectacle.
The terraces of the coffees, the positions of flowers, the showcases,
and the continuous one to go and to come until the night does of
this attractive district a special one.
Ensanche
Ensanche, as it reforms city-planning recent offers
the calm atmosphere that causes its bourgeois population and bureaucrat.
A stroll by this zone will make him include/understand the Valencia
of today.
The
gardens
As it says the song "Valencia is the earth of
the flowers" and these can be appreciated here in colorful
more intense his and fragrance. For it nothing better than to take
time to occur a stroll by the beautiful parks that this city offers.
The Gardens of the Tree-lined avenue or the Gardens of Monforte
offer that beautiful atmosphere, neoclassic and romantic, of century
XVIII with their beautiful arriates and woods adorned with statues
and sources with water games. It is worth the trouble to visit the
Gardens of the Real one or Breeding grounds, that have most beautiful
rosaledas and their pine groves, on the knoll on which the old real
palace was built, are the delight of the paseante that will be able
to be lost between peculiar ruins and sources. In him is the zoological
park. One more a more original atmosphere offers the Botanical,
rich Garden in exotic plants. Additionally Valencia counts on a
good one I number of landscaped strolls like the Stroll from Valencia
to the Sea in the University City or the Great one Via, where the
Mediterranean freshness is breathed. |
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