Museo de Historia de Valencia
Former nineteenth-century water reservoir, its cast-iron columns now framing artifacts from two thousand years of a city's past.
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This guide to the Museo de Historia de Valencia follows Ildefonso Cerda, a young engineer wading through mud on a construction site in the late 1840s, years before he became known for planning Barcelona's grid. It traces the cast-iron reservoir he helped build to give Valencia clean water after generations of cholera-plagued wells, designed by Calixto Santa Cruz with engineer Leodegario Marchessaux. The guide follows the tank through the decades it held water, before it stood empty and forgotten.
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