The Church of Santo Tomás and San Felipe Neri, also known by the Valencians as the Church of the Congregation, Asset of Cultural Interest and National Historic-Artistic Monument, can be discovered in the Plaza de San Vicente Ferrer, also popularly called “Plaza de los Ducks”.

This church was built between 1727 and 1736. It was the work of the architect and also Valencian mathematician Tomás Vicente Tosca, known above all for his work with the plan of the city of the early eighteenth century.

The architect Vicente Tosca started from his classical ideas for the construction of the Church of Santo Tomás and from the Baroque models of Rome for a large part of its infrastructure, recognizable above all on the façade.

It is built in red tile with stone elements in highlight. It is part of the same shape as the Roman church of Gesu and is formed by two bodies.

The first is a smaller one that is wider. It has crowned an entablature and a lowered arch over the door. The second is a narrower upper body with two large volutes on its sides.

Classicism is present in pilasters, corbels and statues, as well as complemented by a typical eighteenth-century sundial.

The interior has a temple structure with a Latin cross plan. Included in the construction is a small nave with a barrel vault and lunettes between side chapels, which in turn have small upper domes.

The Church of Santo Tomás also opens onto a wide transept, on which an enormous dome is built, on the surface of which it has been used to include funds of great pictorial richness, taking advantage of canvases by artists such as Espinosa, Vergara and Vicente López.



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Direcció:

Plaza de San Vicente Ferrer, s/n
46003 Valencia

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Telephone: 963 92 33 83