València Estació del Nord
Modernist train station of carved oranges and orange blossom, built by an architect for one railway company alone.
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This guide to Valencia Estacio del Nord traces the career of Demetrio Ribes, an architect trained first as a doctor of physics who spent nineteen years designing exclusively for Spain's Northern Railway Company. It follows the station's decade-long construction, its midnight opening in nineteen seventeen, and the nationwide strike that ignited here five days later. You'll also hear how Ribes wrapped Vienna's Secession style around Valencia's own orange harvest, from the carved facade to the ceramic Mosaic Room inside. Step into the ticket hall to find the trencadis walls by Lluis Bru wishing travelers a safe journey in half a dozen languages.
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