The Center del Carme Contemporary Culture Contemporània (CCCC) is a pure reflection of Valencia's history and artistic tradition.
It's named after the coolest and most tasteful neighborhood in town.
It was built on the site of the old royal monastery of Nuestra Señora del Carmen de València, founded in 1281, after the Christian conquest. And this is how the most authentic district of the city got its name: the district of Carmen.
Declared a National Historical-Artistic Monument in 1983, the building is in itself an architectural complex as diverse as its cultural offerings. You can walk through a Gothic cloister as well as a Renaissance cloister that coexists with the remains of an Islamic house.
Since its foundation at the end of the 13th century, the monastery has seen the course of history with several expansions and alterations that have given us the cloister, the refectory or the chapter house.
Its use as a cultural center came in the 19th century when it became the Museum of Fine Arts and the seat of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and the Schools of Fine Arts and Crafts. Something that saved his life, by the way.
The true heyday of this botanical garden was between 1829 and 1863, under the direction of the professor of botany Félix Pizcueta, who optimized the existing collections and allowed the acclimatization of exotic plants, expanding the facility shortly afterwards towards the Paseo de la Pechina became. The balsa glass house and, at the end of the 19th century, the magnificent sunroof, the work of the architect Arturo Mélida, were also built.
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