Market forces: this historic Art Nouveau era market in Valencia has been imaginatively restored...

Valencia--the much-underrated third city of Spain--is full of remarkable buildings, from the medieval silk exchange with its tall twisted columns to the flamboyant food market with its green parrot weathervane, and Calatrava's gargantuan City of Arts and Sciences. None offers greater surprise and delight than this newly restored Colon Market hall, which was designed in 1913 by Francisco Mora, a talented practitioner of Modernismo. As in St Pancras Station, ornate brick facades bracket a soaring iron and glass vault, but here the contrast between art and engineering, decoration and