Agenda UV

The Huerta of Valencia, the most densely populated (2,500 inhabitants per km2) of all the Valencian regions, is composed of 44 municipalities with a population of more than a million and a half.

The Huerta of Valencia, named that way due to the abundance of vegetable crops that historically filled the region, through the last decades has experienced an intense urban development that has derived in the reduction of the number of hectares with vegetable crops.

This exhibition show us the complex relation that historically has been maintained between the city and the "huerta" (vegetable crops) of Valencia, relation that sometimes has been harmonic and interdependent, but other times has been conflictive –disturbance by the "hortelanos" (market gardeners) against the city- and predative -of the urban economic forces against the "huerta" (vegetable crops).

In addition, the exhibition deals with other aspects of the Huerta de Valencia such as environmental education, biodiversity (flora, vegetation, fauna), human geography (urban expansion at the expense of the "huerta", automatic irrigation networks), physical geography (climate and geomorphology), and history of art (environmental art, orange tree plantations) and history (where stand up the references to the "Tribunal de las Aguas").

Opening hours: from Wednesday to Sunday, from 10:00-14:00; and from 17:00-21:00.