Mercado Municipal del Cabañal
Neighborhood market rebuilt from a fishing village's frugal nineteenth-century original, now twice its size.
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This guide to the Mercado Municipal del Cabanal in Valencia opens with a question: what does a market look like when nobody will pay for ambition? It follows two rejected designs from 1867, by architects Joaquin Calvo and Vicente Bochons, before a third architect, Jose Lorca Vidal, won the job with what his contemporaries called an elementary design, built for a sum of about thirty thousand pesetas. Along the way you will hear how this fishing village, once called Pueblo Nuevo del Mar, joined the city of Valencia in 1897 while keeping its own identity, and how painters like Joaquin Sorolla came here to paint the light on these streets. Listen for how the humble market wore down over three decades of patching and re-roofing.
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