Mercado de Ruzafa
Color-blocked neighborhood market hall whose four painted facades mark its comeback from near-abandonment.
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At the Mercado de Ruzafa in Valencia, a name that means garden sits on a brutalist concrete hall by architect Julio Bellot Senent, opened in 1962. The guide follows the neighborhood that grew around it, the decades when families and cinemas left, and the young newcomers who moved in on cheap rent. Best heard standing in the square outside, then carried through the stalls.
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