FREE TOUR CASTELLÓ, FROM LA RAJOLA TO THE 21st CENTURY TILE

Castelló has an Open Air Museum where you can discover colours, shapes, symbology and stories and all of this embodied in a unique and surprising medium: Ceramics .

First Spanish city attached to the European Route of Ceramics, where the You will find modernist buildings, urban spaces, 18th century chapels, Baroque churches or current buildings.

Since medieval times, the city has generated a "Rajolera" industry that over time increased its value and artistic importance, filling the city and all its corners with ceramics. A two-hour visit to the most beautiful corners of the city.

Itinerary

We will leave at 11:00 a.m. from Parque Ribalta , where we will introduce ceramics, emphasizing the crucial moment for the development of the city, which was the arrival of the railway in 1862 , up to the present day.

Up close, we will give due account of the Modernist Houses next to one of the most emblematic and beloved monuments of the people of Castellón, La Farola , built by the famous architect Francesc Maristany .

The walk will take us to the Post Office Building , which, as a curiosity, its 1926 ceramics use the institution's corporate colors, we will continue along the emblematic Calle Colón until we reach Calle Enmedio , which houses treasures wonderfully decorated with ceramics, such as the House of the Four Cantons .

We will visit a dairy , an insecticide store and a giant ficus where ceramics will be the real protagonist.

We will go through a mysterious alley , we will discover ceramics from the 18th century in the middle of the street and we will give way to the Great Mural of the Finca Diago , an exhibition of ceramics from the 60s .

And we will finish in the Plaza de Na Violant D'Hongría , where we will briefly review the life of this character, key in the dawn of the City of Castelló and in the founding of the Kingdom of Valencia , through the most contemporary ceramics .