With the appearance of the hygienist illustrated ideas which led to the suppression of the urban graveyards and with the ecclesiastic disentailment of the XIXth century, throughout the above mentioned century important changes happened in the urban composition of great number of cities, guided by the techniques of alignments and the rebuilding. A new urban development speech is restored of which the zone chosen for our investigation is a good example, still being itself a very specific sector located around the old convent of Nuestra Señora de la Merced, in the current neighborhood of El Mercat in the Ciutat Vella of Valencia.... [Leer más...]