Palace of the Marquis of Dos Aguas

Chapter 3/11 · València

This is the Palace of the Marquis of Dos Aguas. It was the Gothic house of the Rabassa de Perellós family, who received the title of marquis in 1699. Around 1740 they completely transformed it, with a design by the painter Hipólito Rovira and a doorway carved in alabaster by Ignacio Vergara.

The doorway is one of the jewels of Spanish Baroque. At the top is the Virgin of the Rosary, and on either side two atlantes pour water from their jars: they represent two rivers and allude to the family's name, «two waters». The painted façades and stucco you see today come from a nineteenth-century renovation, between 1853 and 1867.

The State bought the palace in 1949, and since 1954 it has housed the González Martí National Museum of Ceramics and Decorative Arts, with Valencian ceramics from Manises, Paterna and l'Alcora. Inside there are nineteenth-century rooms and one of the marquises' carriages.

We continue along Carrer del Poeta Querol, turn into Carrer de Pròxita and, via Carrer de la Barcelonina, come out onto Plaza del Ayuntamiento.

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