Trips Blog: The square of the Virgin, Valencia. Water drops in the source of the Court of the Waters

The Square of the Virgin, placed in the heart of Valencia is one of the historical modality of the city. In the Square of the Virgin we can find the Door of the Apóstole s of the Cathedral of Valencia. In The Door of the Apostles of the Cathedral of Valencia they meet every Thursday the 12.00 for more than thousand years the Court of the Waters. This court is the most ancient current juridical institution of Europe, and probably also the most ancient of the world.

Valencia Door of Apostles Catedral of Valencia

The court of the waters has competitions on the conflicts that arise concerning the use of the waters for the irrigation, realizes oral, public judgment, passes immediate judgment and it is not appealable.

In honor he constructed the Court of the Waters the Source of the Court of the Waters. The source has oval form in whose center appears a man's figure semirrecostado that it represents to the river Turia. The bearded man is surrounded with pedestals in which eight girls or naked adolescents appear with the ornamental comb and hairstyle of Valencian cultivator, each of them with a pitcher from which there comes the water, and that in turn eight ditches of the Turia represent.

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The ditches belong to Benager i Faitanar, to Rovella, to Favara, to Quart, to Tormos, sde Rascanya, of Mislata, and to Mestalla. The source is a work of sculptor Manuel Silvestre Montesinos “Silvestre de Edeta“, realized the figures in bronze while the rest is of stone. It was inaugurated in 1976. In the top photo we can see the water drops in the source of the Court of the Waters.

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The source of the Court of the Waters is placed in the center of the Square of the Virgin and surrounded by some of the monuments most emphasized from the city like the Palace of the Valencian Generality, the Basilica of the Virgin of the Helpless ones and the Cathedral of Valencia. In the Square of the Virgin or Plaça de la Mare of Deu, in flaws, of every year realizes the traditional flowers gift.

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