Casa-Museo Blasco Ibañez
The Casa-Museo Blasco Ibáñez is a Valencian Art Nouveau doorway into the life of a celebrated writer. Here, at Carrer d'Isabel de Villena 159, you’re standing in a house rebuilt to honor Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, whose villa sits at the edge of Valencia’s Malvarrosa coastline. The museum, established in 1997, sits on a plot once home to a 450 m² villa that faced the sea, with a main facade featuring a portico and Ionic pilasters and a first-floor gallery that once housed the writer’s sea-facing study window. Originally built as a 1902 “chalet o casa de recreo” by master builder Vicente Bochons y Llorente, the structure blended neogreek and pompeian motifs with Valencian modernisme, influenced by local architects and painters of the era. After the Civil War, the building was seized for use by FET y de las JONS and later abandoned, with restoration efforts reviving it in the 1980s and culminating in its current function as a museum. …
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