08/01/2021
The Valencian Valeriola Palace is undergoing rehabilitation works to adapt its spaces for exhibition purposes: it will house the Hortensia Herrero Art Center, which will have Alejandra Silvestre as managing director. The space will be inaugurated, as planned, in 2023 and will have 3,500 square meters in which it will be possible to see both the private collection of Herrero and samples of international artists.
The building remodeling works are carried out by the ERRE Arquitectura studio and have a continuing vocation: in addition to enjoying these contemporary art collections, they will allow visitors to discover part of the Roman circus of Valencia or see the original wooden beams and the ceramic revolt of the noble hall of the Palace.
The works began in 2018, the foundations have already been completed and work is currently under way on the execution of the new structure and the reinforcement of the existing elements. The façade will be returned to its original state in its reform in the early 19th century, the original rodeno cobblestone pavement will be maintained and the improper modern elements that have been added in recent decades in the different phases of the building will be eliminated. As for the building’s chapel, it will be restored and rebuilt, adapting it as one more room in the future Art Center.
In the process there have been finds, such as a late medieval oven and sections of the thick wall five meters wide of the western stands of the Roman circus of Valencia, found in the courtyard and dated to the first half of the second century AD. C.
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