Building known as «Casa d’Escaló», it is a unique art deco architecture (modernist style), designed by Vicente Pascual Pastor (1906-1908). Outside, the rustic ashlars, the wrought iron hoses, the sculpted vegetation, the door and the laminated iron viewpoints, the sinuous balconies, the curvilinear finish, etc. stand out. Inside you can see wall paintings, joinery (doors and furniture), plaster capitals, ceramics, hydraulic pavement floors, etc. Former palace of the textile industrialist Enrique García Peidro, known by the nickname “Escaló”, which was restored in the 1980s for the Municipal Conservatory.
Hours: Wednesday and Friday from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 1.30 p.m.
In 1596, the Archbishop of Valencia Juan de Ribera, established the order of Agustinas Descalzas and founded this convent. Since its inception, these cloistered nuns have cared for this monastery and the church of the Holy Sepulcher, built to commemorate the “Theft and Finding of the Sacred Forms” that occurred in 1568 on the site that the church currently occupies. The lateral façade, in a regionalist Baroque style, was designed by Vicente Valls Gadea in 1925.
Church Hours: Monday to Saturday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Sundays from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 4 to 5:30 p.m.
Observations: Convent not visited because it is closed.
Dedicated to the patron saint of the city, the current temple was blessed in 1921. Neo-Romanesque historicist building, with careful interior decoration in the Neo-Byzantine style. Project by the architect Timoteo Briet (1913), in which Vicente Valls Gadea also intervened. The apse of the temple is decorated by a large pictorial mural, the work of F. Cabrera Cantó, which represents the mythical intervention of Saint George in aid of the Alcoyans, in 1276, on the occasion of the attack on the town of Alcoy by Muslim troops. This iconography summarizes the faith and tradition of a town that honors its patron Saint George with the annual Moors and Christians Festival.
Location: C / Santo Tomás, s / n.
Hours: Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. and from 6 to 7 p.m.
It was built in 1931 according to the project of Joaquín Aracil Aznar. This temple belongs to the Salesian College of San Vicente Ferrer, and its side chapels are decorated with excellent pictorial murals that represent local themes related to Saint George and the Moors and Christians Festival, Industry, Saint John Bosco, etc., the work of the painters Ramón Castañer Segura and David Pastor Corbí.
Hours: Monday to Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m. Sundays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
The temple was built in the mid-eighteenth century, in the Baroque style, and was destroyed during the Civil War. This new church – in a classicist style – was rebuilt on the same site between 1940 and 1954. In the Communion Chapel there is a Gothic table with the iconography of the Virgen de Gracia, attributed to Jacomart, and paintings by Cristóbal Llorens are also kept in the parish offices. The mural that decorates the vault of the main altar is the work of the Alcoy painter Ramón Castañer.
CHURCH OF SAN MAURO AND SAN FRANCISCO: Temple rebuilt from the year 1948 according to the project of the engineer César Cort Botí, of classicist line, which replaced the primitive church, in the Baroque style, which was demolished during the armed civil war of 1936-1939 . Inside you can admire some canvases by the Alcoy painter Francisco Laporta.
SAN MAURO AND SAN FRANCISCO PARISH MUSEUM: The museum is located next to the church and houses an outstanding collection of religious art, including several pictorial works, liturgical ornaments and other images and objects related to worship.
Hours: Make an appointment.
Church hours: From 12 a.m. to 1.15 p.m. and from 7 to 8:30 p.m.
Park built on land belonging to the orchard of the San Francisco convent (founded in 1569 and confiscated in 1835), since 1836 it was the first public walk the city had. The configuration of the Glorieta has undergone numerous reforms, the most important being that carried out in 1899 by the architect Vicente Pascual Pastor, who created a large ring road on an elliptical space divided into three large avenues, which in turn are subdivided with flower beds. to the English. The iron fence shows theart nouveau motif of the hose.
Located in the basement of Plaça d’Espanya, Alcoy’s nerve center, also called Bandeja. This is a unique concrete construction that simulates the skeleton of a cetacean. In this space projected by the Valencian architect and engineer Santiago Calatrava, different cultural and social activities come together.
The building converted into the museum’s headquarters is worth a visit by itself. In any case, inside, a sample of different elements is offered, ranging from the Palelolithic to the medieval period, among which the Neolithic set of ceramics, the collection of leads with Iberian writing and the votive terracotta of the Serreta stand out. .
Winter hours (09/01 to 06/30) from Tuesday to Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and from 4 to 6 pm. Sundays and holidays from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Summer hours (07/15 to 08/31) from Tuesday to Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and from 6pm to 9pm. Sundays and holidays: from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Tickets: General 3€. Youth card, student card, over 65 and / or retirees and groups of + 15 people 1,5€. Children under 7 years, free physical and mental disabilities.
