{"id":6149,"date":"2021-01-05T23:09:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T22:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/luminaris.com\/wp\/?p=6149"},"modified":"2024-08-05T16:18:32","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T15:18:32","slug":"the-murals-of-ciutat-vella","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/luminaris.com\/index.php\/2021\/01\/05\/the-murals-of-ciutat-vella\/","title":{"rendered":"The Murals of Ciutat Vella"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

One does not need to leave Val\u00e8ncia to see murals … as a matter of fact, if you count the regular graffiti, this city is covered in spray paint. Unfortunately, a lot of it is just regular crappy graffiti but there is much art here as well. As I walk around Ciutat Vella I come across new pieces all the time. They’re not all murals though. Quite often the shutters of the various shops or restaurants hide their art so unless you walk down a specific street at a specific time, it is very easy to miss them. This unpredictability makes for a wonderful surprise. I was lucky on this one day in early January and spotted a bunch I had not noticed before. (Some of the photos are from earlier escapades.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A few days later all three of us decided to go to El Molinon for lunch to try their specialty, fabada asturiana<\/em> (bean stew), on Sagrario’s recommendation but since we had to wait for Ewa to get out of her classes, we walked around a part of Ciutat Vella I wasn’t very familiar with. This happened to be close to the Escola d’Art i Superior de Disseny de Val\u00e8ncia (EASD), a 165-year-old art and design school run by the government of Val\u00e8ncia (Comunidad de Val\u00e8ncia, not the city), so perhaps it shouldn’t have been a surprise to see so much street art around the campus. What I didn’t expect to find, however, was a rather large urban garden where people were already working hard making it ready for spring. Of course here spring starts so early I’m sure they will have produce and flowers in no time. I checked Google Maps and it couldn’t have been long ago that both this garden and the mural overlooking it came into existence. Things move fast around here \ud83c\udf1e.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Urban art and urban gardens go hand in hand<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The meal at El Molinon was great, yet again, the fabada<\/em> being as good as advertised, though we did have a few other plates to round out the men\u00fa<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fabada asturiana<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Afterwards, we continued our walk around the area and Sagrario lead us to the Centre Cultural la Benefic\u00e8ncia where it was possible we’d be able to see an exposition, as it sometimes is. Unfortunately it wasn’t, but we were able to walk around the courtyards which belong to a building that began its life back in the XVI century as a convent, of course. In the XIX century it was a place where orphans and beggars were housed and helped to become useful members of society. With the arrival of democracy in Spain in 1978, the building became home to two of the most important museums in Val\u00e8ncia: Museu de Prehist\u00f2ria de Val\u00e8ncia and the Museu Valenci\u00e0 d’Etnologia. And I haven’t see either of them yet. They are on the list!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Courtyards of Centre Cultural la Benefic\u00e8ncia<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

But, of course, this post was supposed to be about street art, mainly. So please, enjoy the hidden gems of Ciutat Vella and I promise I will add to this if I spot any more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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