Church of San Nicolás (Valencia)

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Detail of the main altar of the Church of San Nicolás

San Nicolás de Bari and San Pedro Mártir is a Gothic style, Roman Catholic parish church located in Valencia (Spain).

History

The church was founded in the 13th century, with a layout that includes a single-nave with six chapels between the buttresses and polygonal apse. The church was refurbished in Gothic in the 15th century, and includes a rose window alluding to a miracle of Saint Nicholas. There is an outdoor Chapel closed with a gate which is called the fossar, because there was before the parish cemetery.The other gate, which overlooks the square of San Nicolás, however is a neo-gothic 19th-century recreation.

The interior of the church was completed between 1690-1693, and was decorated by Juan Pérez Castiel in baroque fashion. It has frescoes, depicting the life of San Nicola and Peter of Verona, along with virtues and allegories, designed by Antonio Palomino and completed out by Dionis Vidal, The chapel altarpieces include works by Juan de Juanes, Fernando Yáñez de la Almedina, Jerónimo Jacinto de Espinosa, and José Vergara Gimeno.

In the Church of San Nicolás, of which the Pope Callixtus III was rector before becoming Pope, in the door that overlooks to the square of San Nicolás, is remembered with a plaque regarding the prediction of Saint Vincent Ferrer according to which Alfonso de Borja would become Pope and then will canonize him.

See also

• Route of the Borgias

External links

• Valencian Heritage Library (Spanish)
• Information and photos about the church (Spanish)
• Information of the Valencia Town Hall (Spanish)