Valencia entdecken

The Church of Santos Juanes stands on Valencia's Plaza del Mercado, facing the Central Market and the Silk Exchange. Built on the site of a mosque in the 13th century, it was rebuilt in Baroque style after a fire in 1592 and finished around 1700. Its market façade has a clock tower and a stucco Virgin of the Rosary; inside are vault frescoes by Antonio Palomino.

Valencia Cathedral was consecrated in 1238 on the site of the city's former mosque and is built mainly in Valencian Gothic style, with Romanesque, Renaissance and Baroque additions. Its octagonal bell tower is the Micalet, and a side chapel keeps an agate cup venerated as the Holy Grail. The visit includes the cathedral museum.

The Church of San Nicolás is a Gothic parish church in Valencia's old town, founded in the 13th century and rebuilt in the 15th. Between 1690 and 1693 its single nave was covered with Baroque frescoes of the lives of Saint Nicholas and Saint Peter Martyr, designed by Antonio Palomino and painted by Dionís Vidal.