Arch over BarchillaStreet

This enclosed bridge joins Valencia Cathedral and the Archbishop's Palace. Although the first arch that connected the two buildings is from the mid-fourteenth century, the current is much later. On one side of the arch is a Roman stone used as a measure of wheat (Barxilla) in middle age.

Communicates the Archbishop's Palace, the Cathedral of Valencia. In the mid-fourteenth century  Bishop Hugo de Fenollet started the procedures for the construction of the first arch connecting both buildings was constructed, rises.

In 1427 it was demolished because of the demolishion of the old bell tower of the Cathedral, together with other structures on which it rested. The current bridge was built in the S XVII in renaissance style. During the Civil War the Palace of Arzopispo caught fire and the arch was the only structure that survived.

The street in which this arc is called Barchilla (Barxilla) and housed in a lateral of the arch linking the Cathedral and the Archbishop's Palace in Valencia, a peculiar mark on the stone that gave rise to the name of this street. The slit, rectangular and with two triangular notches on the sides, served in the middle age as a pattern for carpenters making the “barxillas”, wooden boxes and volume measure that served to weigh wheat. It fell into disuse with the generalization of the metric system from 1840.