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En Corts, Valencia — Area Guide & Where to Stay
En Corts is a barrio of Valencia listed for two working buildings: a level-crossing keeper's house on Rafael Contreras street and a substation.
About En Corts
Where to stay in En Corts
Where you base yourself shapes the visit — here's the character of each area.
Railway ground shapes the barrio. A bed in En Corts sits among ordinary streets rather than monuments, with Rafael Contreras street and its level-crossing keeper's house the one address the heritage register singles out. Valencia's larger sights lie outside En Corts, so the barrio suits a stay that trades a landmark at the door for quiet blocks.
About En Corts
What are the main landmarks in En Corts?
Two entries, both utilitarian. The Level-crossing keepers house at Rafael Contreras street records the years when a keeper lived beside the tracks and worked the crossing that gave the house its name. Power made the second.
Substation 802 of Electra Valenciana carries the name of the company that wired this part of Valencia, and it survives as a listed piece of the city's electrical fabric.
What is the history of En Corts?
En Corts owes its listed fabric to two utilities rather than to a church or a palace: the railway that once ran a manned level crossing at Rafael Contreras street, and the electricity network of Electra Valenciana. Both were working buildings. Substation 802 of Electra Valenciana still stands for that second network, and the keeper's house stands for the first, so the barrio's memory is one of tracks and current rather than of monuments.
Where is En Corts?
En Corts occupies a modest patch of Valencia, its blocks running out to the railway ground around Rafael Contreras street.
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Updated August 2026