Museo y Colegio del Arte Mayor de la Seda

The Museo y Colegio del Arte Mayor de la Seda occupies a fifteenth-century building that once served as the headquarters for Valencia’s powerful silk guild. You can identify the structure by its Gothic base and the ornate Baroque architectural elements added during later centuries. This institution originated in fourteen seventy-nine to unify and regulate the quality of silk production, which was a primary engine of the local economy.