The Sorolla rooms
Sails and shores ablaze with sun — light's master at home.
Felivet — Public domain · Katsushika Hokusai, published by Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudō) (1760 - 1849) – Artist (Japanese) Details on Google Art Project — Public domain · Slaunger — CC BY-SA 3.0 · Daderot — CC0
It doesn't try — a third the size, Valencian in focus, which is its visiting secret: one fully-worthwhile hour without fatigue, ticket or queue. For Sorolla lovers specifically it is obligatory — light's mother house.
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Valencia's Fine Arts Museum is Spain's second classical picture gallery after the Prado — and entirely free, which alone is a miracle: a blue-domed baroque palace on the Turia's bank holding the complete Valencian golden school with Spain's first-rank names beside it. Here is Sorolla, the city's son and master of Mediterranean light, with his sails and sun-blazed shores — his rooms alone earn the visit — dramatic Ribera, and originals of Goya, El Greco and Velázquez (his famous self-portrait), plus the gilded Valencian Gothic halls with their glittering panels. It is the perfect midday refuge at zero euros on the Turia gardens' edge by the Serranos bridge — an air-conditioned hour from Gothic gold to Sorolla's light between walking stations.
Sails and shores ablaze with sun — light's master at home.
The famous face — the collection's jewel.
Valencia's glittering panels before the Renaissance.
Carrer de Sant Pius V 9, 46010 Valencia