Valencia: The Silk Exchange, the Central Market and the Holy Chalice
Valencia, Spain
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Valencia: The Silk Exchange, the Central Market and the Holy Chalice
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The Silk Exchange in Valencia, the Llotja, was designed by Francesc Baldomar around 1470 and finished after his death by Pere Compte and Joan Ivarra, on the model of the exchange in Palma: a great hall of twisted columns holding up Gothic vaults, built to house the maritime trade court and to show off the city's 15th-century wealth. It has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1996. Across the square the Mercado Central, begun in 1914 and finished in January 1928, is one of the masterpieces of Valencian modernisme and still a working food market. A few streets away, in a side chapel of the cathedral that was once its chapter house, is the Holy Chalice, dated to the 1st century and given to the cathedral by King Alfonso the Magnanimous in 1437.
Required Activities
1
of 4
Stand in the trading hall of the Llotja among its eight twisted columns, eleven metres high — meant as palm trunks holding up a sky once painted blue with gold stars
2
of 4
Look for the carved gargoyles on the outside of the Llotja
3
of 4
Shop in the Mercado Central, the modernista market finished in 1928
4
of 4
See the Holy Chalice in its chapel in Valencia Cathedral, given by Alfonso the Magnanimous in 1437
Stand in the trading hall of the Llotja among its eight twisted columns, eleven metres high — meant as palm trunks holding up a sky once painted blue with gold stars
Look for the carved gargoyles on the outside of the Llotja
Shop in the Mercado Central, the modernista market finished in 1928
See the Holy Chalice in its chapel in Valencia Cathedral, given by Alfonso the Magnanimous in 1437
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Challenge XP
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Spain country bonus
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Potential total
325 XP
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