Valencia_modernism

= The North Railroad Station = Characteristics: -The North Railway Station is a modernist jewel of the city -The building has a rectangular plant with two well differentiated areas -In there you can appreciate the most typical elements of valencian culture: oranges, barracas (valencian traditional house), La Albufera (the lake), women dressed with traditional valencian dress -Inside, the decoration of the vestibule is beatiful, and then there is the iron nave over the rail roads. -It has pillars which are independent of its structure. -The facades are rhythmically developed according to modules of a great horizontal schematism. - The building has lateral towers, with Gothic elements that resemble those of “La Lonja”, with scarce height and vertical rhythms that do not get to break their horizontality.

-On the facades, there is a profuse decoration of ceramic elements and topics inspired by Valencian agriculture. -In the central block, there are two mosaic panels symmetrically placed -In the interior, the forge work and the profusion of ceramics gets our attention, with showy colors whose fundamental thematic are typical Valencian elements -The lobby is decorated with glazed ceramic -The clock on the North Station is unmistakable, surrounded by ceramic flowers and oranges.