CCCC (Centro del Carmen de Cultura Contemporánea)
Gothic and Renaissance cloisters of a former Carmelite convent, now a free contemporary art and culture center.
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This guide to CCCC in Valencia asks what these thick stone walls have heard across six centuries, starting with the Carmelite friars who founded a silent monastery here in 1281 and gave the surrounding neighborhood its name, El Carmen. It follows the moment in 1848 when the convent passed from the church to the Royal Academy of San Carlos and became an art school, filling the cloister with generations of students, including a young Joaquin Sorolla sketching plaster casts before he became one of Spain's celebrated painters. Stand in the Renaissance cloister and listen for how differently it sounds now compared to the friars' centuries of silence.
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