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Basilica and Royal Chapel of San Pascual Baylón

Vila-real, La Plana Baixa, Castellón

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Basilica and Royal Chapel of San Pascual Baylón

Monument · Vila-real, La Plana Baixa, Castellón

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The sanctuary of San Pascual Baylón, popularly known as El Sant, brings together in Vila-real the international eucharistic votive temple, proclaimed a minor basilica by John Paul II, the Royal Chapel with the saint's tomb, the Pouet del Sant museum and the enclosed convent of Poor Clare nuns. The convent, from the 16th century, owes its fame to the fact that San Pascual Baylón lived, died and was buried there; the original 17th-century baroque Royal Chapel, considered the first monument of Valencian baroque, was destroyed by a fire during the civil war, in 1936, and the current one was inaugurated in 1992 in the presence of King Juan Carlos I. Its two 50-metre bell towers house a carillon of 72 bells and a set of 12 swinging bells, among them the largest in the world.

Photo: Robles Miro (CC BY 3.0)

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