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Botanic Garden-Jesuits School: a shared landscape
From 19 June to 30 November 2008.
Botanic garden exhibition hall (Quart Street, 80)
From
Tuesday to Saturday, from 10 to 13.30 and from 16 to 20 h.
Sunday, from 10 to 14 h.
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El
conjunto colegial hacia 1882, ya completado el tridente
original al haberse acabado de construir la capilla
neobizantina. En la replaza principal se había plantado
ya el arbolado que debería delimitar las huertecillas
ajardinadas. Archivo José Huguet |
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Organised and produced by Culture Department of
Universitat de València
The area where the Botanic Garden and the Jesuits School
are located can be considered to be a historic site in
the city of Valencia. On the other side of the wall,
their location on the banks of the Turia, by the wall
and some of the main streets in town -Quart street and
the Madrid road- made the area a privileged site for
urban expansion in the 19th century. The area
was marked by the installation of the Garden and the
Jesuits School and a fast planning process in the last
decades of the 19th century, its
configuration being completed over the last century.
The exhibition is focused on the evolution of both the
scenery and the citizenship of the area. Based on modern
time maps, a reconstruction towards the present is made,
evoking life in the neighbourhood by means of maps,
drawings, and past and present photographs. The story of
shared spaces is told: streets, farmhouses, buildings
and gardens are the main characters. We can enjoy this
urban and historic area as visitors but also as a place
where the students and neighbours of the Botanic Garden
quarter live. A living landscape in our city. |
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Plano del italiano Antonio Manceli, fechado en 1608, que
dibuja en perspectiva la trama de la ciudad. Además de
su valor historiográfico, es la primera descripción que
nos permite conocer las manzanas, las vías y los huertos
que integraban la ciudad. Archivo Histórico Municipal de
Valencia |
El
convento de Mínimos, plano de Tosca de 1704. Archivo
Histórico Municipal de Valencia |
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«Between the river and the wall, on the other side from
one of the widest city areas, staked by the ambitious
precinct of Pedro el Ceremonioso (1356) is the west
quarter we are talking about. One of its main axes is
the Quart way –later on a street-, possibly of Roman
origin; the poor working area that spread around Saint
Sebastian's Convent was already large when Anthonie van
den Wijngaerde (1563) set eyes on it…»
Vicenç M. Rosselló
The city walls have been demolished since 1865. Since
then, the city has spread over the farming fields via
small plans –the so-called neighbourhoods- that
conditioned and in some areas halted the subsequent
development of the suburbs […] North of calle Quart,
calle Turia, which will continue on the other side of
the road, and calle Quemadero —today's Doctor Sanchis
Bergón— will become the main building in a clearly
economicist short-sighted approach …»
Francisco Taberner |
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Vista aérea, hacia 1946, del Colegio de San José desde
el cruce de la calle Quart con la Gran Via. Archivo José
Huguet |
Chicos
y chicas del Instituto Escuela, a la salida de clase.
[1932-1936]. Luis Vidal.
AGE |
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«Our perception of cities as a continuous and
homogeneous whole full of houses and streets is the
result of a long story. Even in the late 19th
century, many of today's paved cities were formerly
places that had more fields than buildings […] That is
the way Valencia was. It had 200,000 inhabitants
scattered all around the countryside and there were
lanes amid fields. The Jesuits School was built in 1880,
in a plot far from the city centre, “far from the
madding crowd”.»
Ramiro Reig
«In 1930, the private school delivered secondary
education that only the better-off could afford. But the
school also had other more affordable facilities, the
escuelitas
(little schools) for the sons of the workers from the
area. […] Between 1931 and 1936, the Republic undertook
a modernisation and progress project based on the
principle a school for all. […] The Jesuits
building became the headquarters of the Instituto
Escuela, the Teaching School and, as from February 1937,
of the Instituto Obrero de Segunda Enseñanza.»
Cristina Escrivà |
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Paseo de los Tilos en el colegio San José. Archivo
José Huguet |
Alameda central del Colegio de San José [hacia 1916]. De
fondo se vislumbra la escultura de san José y el atrio
de ampliación de la capilla, inaugurado en 1916. Archivo
de Asociación Antiguos Alumnos. Colegio Jesuitas |
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«The processions, the gymnastics routines, the football
matches, the greasy pole, the waiters races, the bulls
and the fireworks on the patron saint day will come back
again. Outside, urbanity made slow progress; in 1945, at
the end of World War II, the planning of the Gran Vía
avenue next to Paseo de la Pechina had come to an end.
The trams and their round trips arrived shortly
afterwards. Manuel Vicent described their blue and white
colours. […] The surrounding landscape changed slowly
with no major incidence until the Ferca building was
erected between 1949 and 1950.»
Adolf Herrero |
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Vista del Jardín Botánico en los años 60. Archivo José Huguet |
Vista aérea desde el norte, con el eje de la Gran vía
Fernando el Católico al centro de la imagen, con el
puente de Ademuz acabado de inaugurar. Archivo
Conselleria de Cultura. GV. |
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«From the early 1970s, almost 40 years ago, the
landscape shared by the Botanic Garden and the Jesuits
School has really seen ups and downs. But most
importantly, over the past four decades, the area
-totally immersed in a built environment- has become a
green milestone fully embedded in people’s lives.
From devaluation to a landscape rescue.»
Carles Dolç and Josep Maria Sancho |
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El
conjunto Botánico-Jesuitas en la actualidad. La foto se
ha tomado en la misma línea directriz que la que se hizo
en 1908 desde el campanario de Campanar. Foto de Neus
Lozano, 2008 |
En
diversas ocasiones, los artistas plásticos han
colaborado con Salvem el Botànic. El 27 de marzo de 1999
compusieron unos paneles de 8 x 3 metros que se
colocaron en la cerca del solar que da a la gran vía de
Fernando el Católico. Foto de Coordinadora Salvem el Botànic |
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