l'Eixample
l’Eixample is Valencia’s gridded, commercial center, spreading between Ciutat Vella, Quatre Carreres, Camins al Grau, Extramurs, and El Pla del Real. Its streets run long and straight, then break into wide avenues and square blocks with chamfered corners, the urban plan locals call illes in Valencian and manzanas in Spanish. That geometry gives the area a very different rhythm from the tighter lanes of the old city nearby. This is where the city’s shopping life gathers, especially along carrer Colón, Marqués del Túria Avenue, and around Russafa. The North Station, Estació del Nord, anchors the district in 1917 Modernisme, with Neo-Gothic structure and Valencian mosaics and ceramics that turn a railway hub into a small civic showcase. …
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