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Parish Church of San Lucas Evangelista of Cheste

Cheste, La Hoya de Buñol, Valencia

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Monument · Cheste, La Hoya de Buñol, Valencia

An 18th-century Baroque and Rococo temple whose construction stretched over almost sixty years, an example of the Baroque splendour of classicist orientation that arose in Valencia under the influence of Father Tosca's architectural treatise; its tower, almost 50 metres high, reinterprets in a classicist key the Solomonic Tower of Santa Catalina in Valencia, and replaced the original Gothic church of the 14th-15th centuries that stood on the plaza del Castillo. Its façade, in the Roman manner and with superimposed orders linked by volutes, follows the model inaugurated by the façade of Santo Tomás, also attributed to Father Tosca. Artists such as José Vergara, Antonio Gilabert, Pedro Juan Isart, Tomás Llorens, Antonio Richart and José Esteve Luciano worked on its construction.

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