The Valencia cathedral is an unexpected résumé and at the same time unique museum of the best Valencian architecture of all the ages. In it, one can see trends and intentionalities from the architectural culture that prevailed in Valencia from the Middle Ages until the last years of the Modern Age. Few substantial chapters in the Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque and academic classicism have failed to be built and artistically embellished. The continuous artistic and architecture additions over its initial structure have no doubt deprived this cathedral of the type of monumentality and clarity of interpretation that is expected in a cathedral. However, at the same time, perhaps its grandeur and interest lie precisely in this prolonged architectural diachrony that accompanied the conception of the cathedral grounds. Perhaps what might best describe the architectural event that is the history of the Valencia cathedral would be to consider it the literary counterpart of Penelope’s shroud. In Homer’s narrative, what was woven one day was unravelled at night and begun again the next day. In terms of both the intentionalities discovered in the rich cathedral archive and the actual realities offered by its complex and varied structure, it can be seen that almost every single generation set out to remake or expand the building in accordance with new and radical artistic ideas. Although in this respect a historical reading of the building may be rather tricky, what is striking is that despite this extensive building process, the cathedral is not merely a chaotic accumulation of constructions. In reality, it is an admirable convergence of very different types of architecture, and only the high professional quality of the masters who rendered the work can explain such an unusual result. ⁰