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—What will be next??
—Los Santos Juanes is terrible.
Hortensia Herrero—Juan Roig's wife—says that, after putting the millions on the altar to rehabilitate the spectacular church of San Nicolás, People stopped her on the street “as if she were a fairy godmother” to ask her to keep an eye on another church in the historic center that needed a good facelift.: the church of Santos Juanes. The temple was greatly affected by the fire. 1936, especially the frescoes painted by Antonio Palomino in the vault, but today they look pale again like then, for religious and pagan visitors. After “saving” this artistic heritage of my community—said the patron dressed as a superhero with a cape—“now it's time to spread the Christian faith from here.”. This time it has disbursed more than eight million euros to refloat the church from which San Juan Bautista and San Juan Evangelista look at the Silk Exchange, resisting for centuries, elbow to elbow, next to her, to the impressive Central Market and the charming Llotgeta. In a few square meters, there are buildings of extremely high historical and artistic value that today Valencians could visit, jumping from tourist to tourist while listening to “Que viva España” sung by a bullfighter.. Herrero spoke about putting Valencia even more on the tourist map in the presentation.
Their money has restored the splendor of the structure of this free-standing church built on an old mosque that was first Gothic - pointed, single ship, with buttresses and a covered rose window—to end up dressed in baroque style during the 17th century. The Gothic walls have been rehabilitated, the baroque doorways and side chapels, but also the sculptures on the walls, the gargoyles, the white stuccos, the communion chapel, the pointed windows (blinded in the baroque transformation), the bell tower and, as we said before, Palomino paintings, that look new thanks to pioneering techniques in the Spanish State such as biocleaning with bacteria. The apse vault, however, It's a big blank canvas.. The paintings were extracted at the time and ended up being lost, so there was nothing to work on. Only some black and white photos from the 1920s with the signature of Joaquín Alcón. They have been the only thing to hold onto to recover the work within a show of Video Patch called Baroque that recreates four moments in the history of the church. Five years after the start of construction, The scaffolding is over in the nerve center of Valencian historical heritage. S.M.
