Valencia - Palacio del Marqués de Dos Aguas

According to the Roman historian Titus Livius "Valentia" was founded by Consul Decimus Iunius Brutus Callaicus in the 4th century BC.

A century later "Valentia Edetanorum" became one of the first Hispanic cities to become a Roman colony.

The city made rapid progress after the Arab conquest in 711, reaching 15,000 inhabitants in the Caliphate of Córdoba. The Amirids and the Dhun Nunids ruled in “Balansiya”. In 1094, El Cid, a Castilian noble, conquered the city. The conquest was not carried out on behalf of one of the Christian kingdoms, but on the Cid's own account, who proclaimed himself "Señor de Valencia" and thus created a kind of private kingdom. He was able to defend the city against several Almoravid attacks, and after his death in 1099, his widow Jimena managed to hold Valencia until 1102, when it fell to the Almoravids, and a little later to the Almohads.

After the victory of the united Christian armies over the Almohads in the Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa (1212), Moorish Spain fell apart again into individual small kingdoms, including a Taifa from Valencia.

It was finally conquered in 1238 by Jaime​ I de Aragón (aka "el Conquistador"), after a five-month siege.

In the 15th century, the city grew rapidly and developed into one of the largest Mediterranean ports and an important trade and financial center. At the beginning of the 15th century the city had around 40,000.
The palace of the Marquesses of Dos Aguas was considered in Valencia for centuries, as a paragon of opulence. The building, noted for the rich Gothic exterior facades was constructed by the Rabassa Perellós family. In the 18th century, the manor of the Rabassa de Perellós underwent a radical renovation carried out in 1740.

This renovation changed its previous Gothic structure entirely. It stands out above all its main entrance. It is made of alabaster by the Valencian, Ignacio Vergara Gimeno, founder of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Carlos, on the design of Hipólito Rovira.

In the composition of this magnificent entrance made in 1745 reference to the two largest rivers of the Valencian community is: the Turia and Júcar, represented by two naked human figures , under these two buckets pour water. THey stand on crocodiles (right) and a lion (left).

Today the palace is the home the "Museo Nacional de Cerámica y Artes Suntuarias González Martí".