Palau de Cervelló
Neoclassical noble palace built over a forbidden Enlightenment-era private library, later a royal residence.
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This guide to the Palau de Cervello in Valencia opens in the 1690s inside one of the city's most dangerous rooms: the private library of Jose de Castellvi, Marquis of Villatorcas, where a circle of scholars called the novatores debated experiment over old Aristotelian science while the Inquisition watched. It follows Castellvi's fall during the War of Succession, when his Bourbon loyalties forced him to flee to Madrid and abandon the palace unfinished. From there the guide traces the building through French occupation and a king's signature inside its walls.
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