Hello friends!
We take regular walks and others that are not so common, we return to well-known and crowded places, and we see the usual things with different eyes, everything surprises us and we like it. We rediscover the beauty that surrounds us while we walk, which this time is in its squares, buildings and beautiful monuments.
So once again I'm joining the #WednesdayWalk community, an initiative of @tattoodjay and today I share a new urban walk and as the previous one also in the downtown of the city of Valencia in Spain, but this time the path is different. Let's touring together!
And we start where we left off in the Valencia Cathedral itself, in front of its façade, but we turn left and a street with quite a few people, with side streets and beautiful balconies will take us to another square...
In the famous Virgin Square, we almost witness a unique tradition. We arrived just a few minutes late and they were already clearing away the chairs. Here in this place every Thursday at 12 noon the Water Court meets. It is the oldest active court in the world, it continues to function and regulates conflicts that may arise with the use of water for irrigation and irrigation ditches in the region.
There were only a few chairs left uncollected from this centuries-old legal tradition. I was there present in the past in some occasion, this day I missed it just for few minutes!
But we continue because there are more in the square, a corridor at the top that connect the Cathedral and the Basilica of the Virgin, and drawing attention to the great fountain of Neptune, and each of the women who throw water also represents one of the ditches, here the cultivation is very important.
And surrounding the fountain and turning around we contemplate the square from different perspectives, always seeing more beautiful facades and stupendous architecture.
Now we go around behind the Basilica itself and contemplate its beautiful upper part, its windows and decorations. While on the other side we love another elegant nineteenth-century facade. We see the same connecting hallway again from the other side, the thick stone walls of the entire complex and more...
We continue forward but to the left where we immediately come across a palace, the Palace of the Archbishopric, and in front a small pleasant square with its statue.
In any corner, we find some space that makes us curious and we look into some alley or even a place that is open at that moment, and inside a large arch that presented an unknown but attractive interior patio.
Along the way, we looked at everything, even some small statues that have adorned walls since who knows when. In every step, corner and facade we find art, beauty and a lot of history.
And to finish, more history, perhaps closer and in another way, a charming vintage items store with character, different and possibly not as long as the rest of the monuments we have seen but enough...
Valencia,Spain🇪🇸❤️Europe
Thanks for reading! Have a nice and happy day.
The text is totally mine and the photos too, by ©Duvinca - NO AI
