St Ursula's Church, Valencia, Spain, Europe
Visitng Valencia and seeing how people live there. Form this small set of church and convent buildings of religious Augustinian nuns, which was founded in 1605 under the patronage of St. Ursula. The church, with brick facade designed from the Valencian Baroque elements, is the only original building remains because the convent was completely rebuilt in the 1960s, according to a design by architect Luis Gay Ramos. Completed during the second half of the seventeenth century, it has a single rectangular nave with chapels between buttresses, semicircular head covered with quarter-sphere dome and steeple on the only existing gate at the foot of the ship. Restored in the 1930s kept inside decoration with baroque ornaments seventeenth and eighteenth Valencian tiles.
Size: 3560px × 5360px
Location: Valencia, Spain
Photo credit: © Grazyna Bonati / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: 17th, augustinian, baroque, catholicism, century, church, convent, españ, español, europe, facade, nuns, religion, spain, st, ursula, valencia, valencian
