Houses and Streets

UB121
“Figueres” (FigTree) House (27, Torres Torres Street)

“Figueres” House, by the name by which the owners were known (coffins were made in this house at the end of the 19th century), the sisters Carmen and Vicenta Giménez Marí, neighbors of Valencia (a century ago the house included the current numbers 23, 25 and 27). Given the name of the first, there is a ceramic panel, remains of a quarry, made in the first half of the 20th century, of Our Lady of Mount Carmel.

In the garden behind the house there is a cistern that took the water from the drain and, with an engine, at the beginning of the 20th century, the house became the first in the village with an installation of ‘tap water.

During the 50s, Andrés Roig Giménez summered in this house. He was a food supplier for the Army in Ceuta and, when he left for Africa, he organized a children’s party (fireworks, balloons …) in his street, at the carob shops in Secanet, now houses numbers 29 and 31, and in the ” Padre Stanislaus Square”. It was during the holidays of Mr. Andrés.