| Source of sea, plaza of the virgin, valency
Guest 2009/10/20 17:14
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| the plaza of the virgin it finds in the district of Ciutat Vella, in the ward of the Seu. 2 The plaza has irregular form, if it tend to be a quadrilateral. It is totally peatonal. It is limited, eastwards, for the basilica of the virgin of the abandoned; westwards, for the jardines of the palace of the Generality and for a building of particular housings; northwards, also for buildings of particular housings; southwards, for the cathedral and for the call it marries wardrobe, that servs as place of meeting to the members of the court of the waters before and after your sessions in the presence of the door of the apostles of the cathedral. In the facade of the wardrobe house finds to him a commemorative plate of the visit to the plaza of the Juan Pablo II potato, on 8th December of 1982Picture:Sergomin |
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| Dress southerner ( plaza of the queen ): Micalet, door of the irons, dome and exterior of the c
Guest 2009/10/19 15:27
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| from the last third of the XVIII century puts in march a project of renovation of the building, whose intention was to endow those of a neoclassic homogeneous aspect, avoiding of the Gothic style that then it was considerate work of barbarians. The work began the 1774 and it ran in charge of the architect Antoni Gilabert Fornés. The remodelación affected so much to constructive elements as ornamental: the exterior pinnacles of the temple were eliminated, the hidden flat roofs for roofs, and the masked Gothic structure for stuccoes, doradoes and other pseudoclásicos.Picture:Felivet |
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| Dress air of the cathedral of valency
Guest 2009/10/19 15:24
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of the baroque stage it stand out that in 1703 the German Konrad Rudolf projected and started the main door of the cathedral, known as of the irons for the grate that goes by a roundabout way it. because of the war of succession could not finish it, and went principally the sculptors Francisco Vergara and Ignacio Vergara those who did it. to be your curved plant, the concave adornment it originates created a singular and affected perspective of effect, adulterated during the century XX because of the bringing down of the adjacent buildings ( acquires seniority of service street of Saragossa ) to enlarge the plaza of the queen. Picture:Felivet |
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| Cathedral of Santa María: door of the apostles, dome and works nova, valency
Guest 2009/10/19 15:04
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| the excavations in the adjacent the Almoina archaeological center have dug up remains of the ancient Visigoth cathedral, the who, more late, became mosque.2 There is documentary constancy that until decades after the Christian conquest (1238) the mosque, cathedral remained standing –incluso with the Koranic verdicts in the walls,, until on 22th June 1262 finally Andreu Fra d ` Albalat 3 resolved knocks down the and build in your place a cathedral, in correspondence with the drawing of the architect Arnau Vidal.Picture:Felivet |
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| Shield of valency, in one of the grates of the inside stairses of the mountain tower, valency
Guest 2009/10/19 14:55
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| your uses as prison ( as in the case of the Quart towers ) did that they survived to the dismantling of the wall, but also maltreated the building, specially in your inside structure. Would that, went blind to him your big open arcades to the inside and it is perforated the exterior wall for diverse windows, to the time that disappeared the embattled barbican that the coronaba.Picture:A valencià |
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| Towers of highlanders, from down, valency
Guest 2009/10/19 14:51
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| began the works on 6th April 1392 on the terrains of the previous portico. The composition of the thickness of the walls is of very solid rubblework, since your main function was those of serving as fortification. Afterwards it imbued oneself of adornments of chairs of calcareous, reasonable stone principally of Alginet, to give you the magnificent finish that required the other function of representativo.Picture:A valencià |
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| View of the tower this and top with merlons, valency
Guest 2009/10/19 14:44
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| in the part that watches towards the inside of the city, appears a series of open stays, covers with vaults built with nerves of Gothic fan vaulting. In the center of the towers, on the arc of the door, it appears an arched orifice for which attacked to the ones that wanted knock down the puerta.Picture:Pabloes |
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| Dress general of the towers of Quart, valency
Guest 2009/10/19 14:41
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| the towers have a cylindrical plant towards the exterior of the city and beveled or smoothed towards the inside of the wall, on the contrary that the towers of highlanders that are polygonal. The towers have an embattled soul, on a terrace of sillería.Picture:Porao |
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| Remains of bombardments in the walls of the towers of Quart, valency
Guest 2009/10/19 14:38
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| the Quart towers are the remains of the ancient medieval wall of Valencia, together with the towers of open highlanders towards the north. Other doors of access to the city of Valencia, went the disappeared doors of saint Vincent towards the south and the door of the sea towards the east or towards the port. These doors disappeared in the century XIX together with the remainder of the wall that surrounded the down ciutat to give work to the unemployeds workers and to enlarge the ciudad.Picture:A valencià |
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| Map of situation of the cathedral, valency
Guest 2009/10/19 15:30
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| in 1972 began the task of repristinación of the cathedral, that was important the withdrawal of almost all classic elements, to recover the Gothic original aspect. Single remained as classic decoration the majority of the lateral chapels and of the apse aisle, and some punctual elements, as the sculptures on the pilgrims shell of the cimborrio.Picture:Felivet |
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