Holidays Valencia: the Barrio del Carmen

El Carmen district of Valencia is perhaps the most unique and famous district of the city. Ciutat Vella district belongs, in the old town of Valencia. It owes its name to the convent of the Carmen Calzado (now the museum of the nineteenth century).

On August 18, 1356 and during the reign of Peter II of Valencia (Pedro II the ceremony), the prospects for improving the fortifications of the city and the imperatives of widening it, forced the General Council the implementation of the construction of a new wall covering or outside the district arrabeles. The old Arab defensive wall of the enclosure is not demolition, but remained as a second military defense. The problem of communication with both sides Mede was solved by portals, among which mainly the Valldigna.

This area has undergone major changes over its more than thousand years of history. It was orchard and shelter Muslim suburb, brothel or brothel, home of the union settlement medieval aristocracy, instead of convents, proletarian-marginal zone during the Industrial Revolution and the late twentieth century, the leisure area's youth population city.

In this picturesque district of Valencia, are some of the monuments and tourist places of interest in Valencia, as Quart Towers, the Towers of Serrano, the round square, the Valencian Institute of Modern Art, the Museum of Prehistory of Valencia, the Valencian Museum of Ethnology, the Museum of the nineteenth century, the Valldigna Portal, the Church of Carmen and the museum house of the painter Jose Benlliure.

The Barrio del Carmen delineates between Calle Serrano, Calle Caballeros and former Muslim wall, using the river as a moat.

Being located in the center of Valencia are great communications either to go by metro, bus or even if you have time, walk, enjoying a nice walk.