Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #2 in Valencia, Spain

The Mercado de Abastos is a building located in the Spanish city of Valencia. It is located in the south-east expansion of the city, between Alberique and Buen Orden streets, occupying two blocks of the plot. It covers an area of 23,800 m², being 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.

Wikipedia: Mercado de Abastos de Valencia (ES)

The hermitage of Santa Lucía, together with the grounds of the Old Hospital, was declared a National Historic-Artistic Monument in 1963 and an Asset of Cultural Interest in 2007, with the ministerial annotation number: R-I-51-0012195, and the date of annotation was November 28, 1963. It is located in the city of Valencia, on Calle del Hospital.

Wikipedia: Ermita de Santa Lucía (Valencia) (ES), Website

The Micalet Theater is a theater hall in the city of Valencia, based in the El Micalet Choral Society. It has its own theatre company of recognised prestige, the Micalet Theatre Company.

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The Church of the Pillar, or Church of Our Lady of the Pillar and Saint Lawrence is the church of the old Dominican convent of the same name, and is mainly what remains of it. It is located in the neighborhood of Velluters or El Pilar, the name it receives for the old convent. More precisely, it is located between Guillem de Castro Street, Maldonado Street and Plaza del Pilar, in the city of Valencia.

Wikipedia: Església del Pilar (València) (CA)

The church of the Pious Schools located on Carniceros Street in Valencia (Spain) was built in the eighteenth century in 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.

Wikipedia: Iglesia de las Escuelas Pías (Valencia) (ES)

Mercado Central or Mercat Central is a public market located across from the Llotja de la Seda and the Church of Santos Juanes in central Valencia, Spain. It is one of the main works of the Valencian Art Nouveau.

Wikipedia: Mercado Central, Valencia (EN), Website

The Olympia building and theatre is located at number 44 Calle de San Vicente in the city of Valencia. It is a multi-family residential building built in 1915 by the architect Vicente Rodríguez Martín.

Wikipedia: Edifici Olympia (CA)

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 who settled in Valencia in the thirteenth century.

Wikipedia: Iglesia de Santa Catalina y San Agustín (ES), Website

The Falla nº 12 Convent Jerusalem - Matemàtic Marçal is a falla in the city of Valencia, located in the streets of the same name.

Wikipedia: Falla del Convent de Jerusalem - Matemàtic Marçal (CA)

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.

Wikipedia: Capilla del antiguo colegio San Pablo (ES)

The Edificio de Correos or Palacio de correos y telégrafos de Valencia is a building located in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento. It was built between 1915 and 1922 and inaugurated in 1923, where the old fishermen's quarter was partly located, with Las Barcas Street as a close witness. It was subsidized by Maura's government for the modernization of postal services in Spain.

Wikipedia: Edificio de Correos (Valencia) (ES)

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 falla that is planted by the Valencia City Council. Although, voluntarily, there are fallas that decide not to participate in the scoring system of the Junta Central Fallera, this is the only one that is always out of the competition. It is considered that the first falla is the one planted in 1942, with the So Quelo as the protagonist of the auction, although, as in most fallas, there are precedents of fallas planted in the nineteenth century.

Wikipedia: Falla de l'Ajuntament (CA)

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.

Wikipedia: Teatro Principal de València (EN)

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 in the neighborhood of La Xerea, with the façade on Calle del Poeta Querol and between Vilaragut, Pròcida and Sant Andreu streets in the city of Valencia, Valencian Country.

Wikipedia: Església de Sant Joan de la Creu (València) (CA)

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.

Wikipedia: Palace of the Marqués de Dos Aguas (EN)

The Royal College Seminary 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 Antioch, who three years later laid the first stone. It is located in the Plaza del Colegio del Patriarca, in the Xerea neighborhood of the city of Valencia.

Wikipedia: Reial Col·legi del Corpus Christi de València (CA)

The Boïl d'Arenós palace, also known as the House of the Lord of Bétera, located at Calle de los Llibrers, 2 in the Xerea neighborhood of Ciutat Vella in Valencia, is a building declared an asset 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.

Wikipedia: Palau dels Boïl d'Arenós (CA)

The church of San Martín, by San Martín Bisbe and San Antonio Abad, is one of the oldest in the city of Valencia, located at the beginning of San Vicente Street. Its origin can be found in the conquest of the city by James I, being in principle a mosque consecrated to Catholic worship.

Wikipedia: Església de Sant Martí (València) (CA)

St. Catherine's Church is a Gothic-style Catholic church located in the city of Valencia, Spain at the southern end of Plaza de la Reina.

Wikipedia: Santa Catalina, Valencia (EN)

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 Catholic church in Valencia, Spain.

Wikipedia: Valencia Cathedral (EN)

St. Stephen's Church is a Catholic parish church located in the Plaça de Sant Esteve in the city of Valencia, Valencian Community, Spain.

Wikipedia: San Esteban, Valencia (EN)

The Admiral's Baths is a building in the neighborhood 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 Admiral's Bath is a humble bathing building that serves to learn how the daily life of the less favored classes of the city of Valencia worked. Sociability developed between women and men, sexes who met on different days or at different times. Bathing was an exercise in practical hygiene and allows us to learn about the social relations of each of the periods.

Wikipedia: Banys de l'Almirall (CA)

The church of San Juan del Hospital, Cistercian Gothic with some Romanesque elements, is the oldest in the city of Valencia. Located inside a block bounded between the streets of La Mar, Sant Cristòfol, del Miracle and Trinquet de Cavallers, in the district of La Xerea, within the district of Ciutat Vella, its name is due to the Order of Saint John of the Hospital or Order of Malta. Since 1943, it has been a historical-artistic monument and since 1966 it has been directed by Opus Dei.

Wikipedia: Església de Sant Joan de l'Hospital (CA)

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.

Wikipedia: Vincent Ferrer (EN), Website

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.

Wikipedia: Monument to James I (Valencia) (EN)

The Glorieta Gardens, known simply as the Glorieta, are gardens in the city of Valencia, located in the neighborhood of La Xerea, in the district of Ciutat Vella. It is bounded by the streets of General Tovar, General Palanca, by the Plaza de la Puerta del Mar to the east and to the south by the Plaza de Alfonso the Magnanimous and the Palace of Justice.

Wikipedia: Jardins de la Glorieta (CA)

The Convent of Santo Domingo was a convent of the Dominican Order in the city of Valencia, Spain. Construction of the church began on land granted by King James I of Aragon in 1239, but it was subsequently replaced by a larger structure in 1250. The building went through renovations and expansions during different periods in history, hence it is home to Renaissance, Neoclassical, Valencian Gothic and Baroque styles of architecture. It was classified as a Bien de Interés Cultural in 1931, and is now used as a Spanish Army headquarters.

Wikipedia: Convent of Santo Domingo (Valencia) (EN)

The Natural Science Museum of Valencia (Spain) is located at Jardines del Real.

Wikipedia: Natural Science Museum of Valencia (EN)

The Jardines del Real, also called Jardines de Viveros, are an urban public park in Spain located in the city of Valencia.

Wikipedia: Jardines del Real (ES)

The Monforte Garden, also known as Romero's orchard, is an ornamental garden in the city of Valencia, located in the Exhibition district, between Calle de Montfort, Plaza de la Legion Española and the Quirón clinic.

Wikipedia: Jardí de Monforte (CA)