Mercado de Ruzafa

This guide to Mercado de Ruzafa in Valencia opens with the market's four brightly painted walls, added sometime in the two thousands, and asks what that cheerful paint job is really marking. It traces the hall's 1962 opening under architects Julio Bellot Senet and Javier Goerlich, built over the once-independent village of Ruzafa, and the decline that emptied its stalls by the nineteen sixties. You'll hear how students, artists and new arrivals started filling those empty storefronts again decades later. Look at the four colors and picture the shuttered stalls they were painted over.