Centro de Arte Hortensia Herrero (CAHH)
Restored medieval palace built over a Roman circus, now seventeen rooms of major contemporary art.
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This guide to the Centro de Arte Hortensia Herrero in Valencia peels back seventeen hundred years stacked beneath one building: a Roman circus where chariot teams once raced, then centuries of Moorish and Christian Valencia layered on top, and finally the Valeriola Palace raised over it all. You'll hear how the palace slid into disrepair before art collector Hortensia Herrero took it on, and how architects Amparo Roig and Jose Marti spent years bracing its old walls and threading new rooms through the ruins. It follows the building from racetrack to noble residence to restoration project, tracing what each era left behind underfoot.
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