http://www.alifeinvalencia.com Guide to Valencia Thu, 23 Jun 2011 07:13:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/art-and-culture/colon-market/ http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/art-and-culture/colon-market/#comments Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:32:16 +0000 Valencia Guide http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/colon-market/ It was designed in 1914 by Francisco Mora Berenguer (1875-1961) who studied at the School of Architecture in Barcelona and had direct contact with the Catalan modernism, especially the work of Gaudí, Puig , Domenech i Montaner and the design ideas of his professors Antonio M. ª Gallissà i Soque and Joan Torras i Guardiola.
Mora’s works were not considered modernist in his day. Mora’s modernism like Domenech i Montaner and Puig [...]]]> http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/art-and-culture/colon-market/feed/ 0 http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/art-and-culture/the-almudin/ http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/art-and-culture/the-almudin/#comments Sat, 10 Jul 2010 16:35:02 +0000 Valencia Guide http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/the-almudin/ Constructed in the 16th century the El Almudin building in Valencia served as a warehouse. This gave rise to the name “almudin” from Arabic. The structure was used to store the grain for the city.
Originally it would have a much smaller build but it has been expanded over the centuries XV and XVI to take on the appearance it has today. For example, the porch was built in the first half of the sixteenth century and the original building would have had an open central courtyard but  in the early seventeenth century  it was joined by the cover, giving the image of [...]]]> http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/art-and-culture/the-almudin/feed/ 1 http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/art-and-culture/house-museum-of-concha-piquer/ http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/art-and-culture/house-museum-of-concha-piquer/#comments Wed, 30 Jun 2010 11:34:11 +0000 Valencia Guide http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/house-museum-of-concha-piquer/ On the ninety-fifth anniversary of her birth (Valencia, 1906-Madrid, 1990), Valencia City Council paid tribute to the memory of the famous artist from Valencia and created La Casa-Museo Concha Piquer dedicated to her and her life.
The house rises on a rectangular surface with windows and recayentes balconies to the street of Ruaya and to the street of the Nugget. The ground floor is  a diaphanous room with a permanent exhibition of abundant graphical documentation, personal items, material objects, records, close memories detailing her life. Audiovisual displays  have also been especially [...]]]> http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/art-and-culture/house-museum-of-concha-piquer/feed/ 0 http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/art-and-culture/the-museum-of-archeology/ http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/art-and-culture/the-museum-of-archeology/#comments Wed, 30 Jun 2010 11:01:21 +0000 Valencia Guide http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/the-museum-of-archeology/ This cultural centre is also quite close to the IVAM museum. This museum is where you will find the valuable pieces found on archaeological excavations undertaken by the Service of Prehistoric Investigation.
It constitutes perhaps one of the finest museographic collections in Spain. Its exhibition halls trace the evolution of Valencians and their instruments from the Palaeolithic to the late Roman era. The cultural center has a shop with a good variety of books [...]]]> http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/art-and-culture/the-museum-of-archeology/feed/ 0 http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/art-and-culture/the-ethnological-museum/ http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/art-and-culture/the-ethnological-museum/#comments Wed, 30 Jun 2010 10:46:45 +0000 Valencia Guide http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/the-ethnological-museum/ This includes photographs, eyewitness accounts and items which constituted our way of living and understanding the world, documenting techniques, practices and ideological representations, everyday objects which speak to us about those who created and used them.
Recovering these materials is one of the raisons d’être of the Museu Valencià d’Etnologia, set up by the Diputació de València (provincial authority) in 1982 exists. The Museum has a permanent exhibition, although still being developed, split into five areas defining [...]]]> http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/art-and-culture/the-ethnological-museum/feed/ 0 http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/art-and-culture/mercado-central-de-valencia-central-market/ http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/art-and-culture/mercado-central-de-valencia-central-market/#comments Tue, 08 Jun 2010 10:26:35 +0000 Valencia Guide http://www.alifeinspain.com/?p=608 The designers, Francisco Guard Vial and Alexander Soler, both trained at the School of Architecture of Barcelona and worked closely with Domènech i Montaner, an architect who characterized himself as a modernist.
There is great beauty in the architecture as well as the tradition and history of the market. The combination of metal, glass and the Gothic columns is a testament to modernism, as if the Market is a cathedral to the commerce-centre it once was.
The market is located at the Plaza del Mercado, next to La Lonja [...]]]> http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/art-and-culture/mercado-central-de-valencia-central-market/feed/ 0