El Palleter
Sorrolla painted him, his statue stands beside Valencia’s cannonball pocketed Torres de Quart, a monument to the city’s resistance to Napoleon’s artillery, commanded by…
The Valencian who Defied Napoleon.
A portrait of José Romeu y Parras hangs in the office of the Mayor of Sagunto, a town of Roman origin with an impressive…
La Puerta del Mar
La Puerta del Mar (or Gateway to the Sea) was built in 1946 in imitation of the city gate that stood on the same…
Guillen de Castro: the Streets Have a Name
Napoleon’s troops must have marched along Guillén de Castro when besieging Valencia on two occasions (one home win and one away win) at the…
The Valencian Napoleonic Society
In the year 2002 Joaquin Blasco strolled across the battlefield of Waterloo. Unlike Napoleon, he didn’t meet his nemesis, but he did meet a…
Valencia: Where the Streets Have a Name
On 31st July 1826 the Spanish Inquisition executed its last victim in Valencia. The heinous crime for which he was publicly garrotted in the…