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Free booking and cancellationFree payment tour, no set price, booking and cancellation are free
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FREE TOUR CASTELLÓ, FROM LA RAJOLA TO THE 21st CENTURY TILE
We are a team of travelers who believe that "the trip" is more than just going from one place to another, we believe that traveling has to be the reason to delve into and enjoy beyond what is imagined, to seek happiness, to smile and experiment. Our name is a tribute to the first traveler of the Iberian Peninsula, who back in the s. IV traveled from Galicia to Egypt, Palestine and Constantinople leaving her experience written in a manuscript and also to all the travelers who, like her, have discovered new places, amazing flavors, generating excitement and curiosity.
Tour description
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 .
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Meeting point:Parc Ribalta, Passeig de Ribalta, 1, ...Parc Ribalta, Passeig de Ribalta, 1, 12002 Castelló de la Plana, Castelló, Spain
We are waiting for you at the corner of Parque Ribalta and Plaza de la Independencia at the indicated time.
How much does this tour cost?
Free tours do not have a set price, instead, each person gives the guru at the end of the tour the amount that he or she considers appropriate (these usually range from €10 to $50 depending on satisfaction with the tour).
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