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Plaza del Mercado
LA LONJA
( 10am-2pm & 4.30-8.30pm Mon-Sat, 10am-3pm Sun)
This splendid
late-15th-century building, a Unesco World Heritage site, was originally Valencia's
silk and commodity exchange. Highlights are the colonnaded hall with its twisted
Gothic pillars and the 1st-floor Consulado del Mar with its stunning coffered ceiling.
Historic Building
Central Valencia
INSTITUTO VALENCIANO DE ARTE MODERNO (IVAM)
Contemporary Art Gallery
(
www.ivam.es
;
Calle Guillem de Castro 118; adult/child €2/1; 10am-8pm or 9pm
Tue-Sun)
IVAM (pronounced '
ee
-bam') hosts excellent temporary exhibitions and
houses an impressive permanent collection of 20th-century Spanish art, including a
whole gallery of spiky, abstract creations in metal by the Catalan sculptor Julio
Gonzalez.
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