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Art Nouveau places in Valencia, to see from the street or to visit.

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  1. Façade of the Estació del Nord seen from the square: sand-colored stone, two corner towers and a central block with a clock under a black eagle, a long row of dark iron canopies at its foot.

    Estació del Nord

    It bears the name of a railway company, the Northern one. In Valencia, though, its station has covered itself in oranges, and “bon voyage” is written on its doors.

    Valence · 1906
    Demetrio Ribes
  2. Red brick façade seen from below: large dark letters CAPITOL between two panels with a stepped pattern, a row of small windows framed in brick, large paned glass roof above the porch, two towers at the ends, cloudy sky.

    Cine Capitol

    At the Capitol, the audience’s line of sight served as the rule. It is the first movie theater in Valencia whose interior was defined by a sightline curve. Of that auditorium, nothing can be seen anymore.

    Valence · 1930
    Joaquín Rieta Síster
  3. The bay of the door seen from below: light stone with horizontal bands, three black iron balconies, the lower two with interlaced circles, a small frieze under each balcony, an iron door on the ground floor.

    Casa Bigné

    Demetrio Ribes drew everything, down to the ceramic tiles of the vestibule. On site, the master builder changed nothing in the design. The changes came later, from the bottom up.

    Valence · 1911
    Demetrio Ribes Marco; master builder Adolfo Bueso Mallol
  4. White corner façade under a blue sky: curved gable pierced by a round oculus, garland of green and pink ceramic, a row of small checkerboard openings, trees in front of the ground floor.

    Edifici Ferrer

    Vicente Ferrer’s client was his father. For him, the architect designs eight apartments in a language new to Valencia, that of the Vienna Secession.

    Valence · 1907
    Vicente Ferrer Pérez
  5. Façade of the Casa Ortega seen from the street: pinkish gray stone, two glazed miradors on the second floor, a long iron balcony on the fourth, a crowning piece loaded with flower friezes around an oval opening; a bare tree hides the lower part.

    Casa Ortega

    Manuel Peris drew this façade twice. The first time, it was all symmetry. The second time, he had a sculptor at his side.

    Valence · 1906
    Manuel Peris Ferrando; sculptor Joaquín Real
  6. Brick gable with an immense arch of medallions, a mosaic tympanum and turrets with small domes, behind an iron fence.

    Mercat de Colón

    Geese, rabbits, a rooster and his hen: this market carries on its walls the animals once sold inside. Trade has changed; they have stayed.

    Open to visitors
    Valence · 1914
    Francisco Mora Berenguer; sculpture: Ricardo Tárrega
  7. Rounded corner of a light-colored building: two semicircular glazed miradors one above the other, iron balconies and an openwork crowning arch, under the palm trees of a square.

    Cases Chapa

    Three architects drew these buildings, lot by lot. From the street, only one can be seen: the same façade runs for nearly 180 meters, under the same wave-shaped cornice.

    Valence · 1909
    Antonio Martorell, Emilio Ferrer, Carlos Carbonell
  8. Corner of the building seen from below: wooden door under a quatrefoil oculus, Gothic niche with a starred disc, dragon on the gable, battlements and bartizans on an ocher façade.

    Casa dels Dracs

    Among the dragons of this building, there is a star. People have tried to read it in many ways. It is simply the crest of a railway company, the Northern one.

    Valence · 1901
    José Manuel Cortina Pérez
  9. Corner building seen from below under a blue sky: polygonal mirador over the full height, capped with a pointed cap, projecting iron balconies on every floor, molded beige façades.

    Casa Sancho

    The plans called for Greek rosettes under the cornice. A decorator whose name is unknown put a blue and white frieze there instead, and it is through this frieze that Modernism enters this Valencia building.

    Valence · 1901
    Joaquín María Arnau Miramón
  10. Gable of the main façade: three large arched openings with stained glass and slats, under a lattice of red and blue ceramic, above an iron canopy.

    Mercat Central

    A king struck the first blows, with a silver pickaxe. The market he launched that day opened only seventeen years later, finished by other architects than the ones who had designed it.

    Open to visitors
    Valence · 1910
    Alejandro Soler March, Francisco Guardia Vial; construction supervised by Enrique Viedma, Ángel Romaní

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