Valencia City Hall
Grand civic square framed by early twentieth-century facades, once topped by a sunken flower market vendors called a ruin.
This guide to Valencia City Hall square traces a fight most visitors would never guess is buried underfoot: in 1933 architect Javier Goerlich raised a stepped platform locals nicknamed la tortada, tucking a marble flower market beneath it, and the florists who moved in hated it. It follows the shopkeepers who turned down glamour for daylight and street traffic, and the standoff between them and the city over a market built just for them. Look for the mushroom-roofed flower stalls still standing at the square's southern edge, trading in the same flowers that started the dispute.
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