Chapel of Saint Vicent’s Prison

Located in the Plaza de la Almoina 5 is the Chapel of Saint Vicent’s Prison, on the place where, according to tradition, the prison where this Saint was locked at the begining of the 4^th century.

There is evidence that since the fourteenth century there was a chapel dedicated to the saint and a chapel newly built which is what has come to us with several restorations in history was built in 1427. The cover of access was performed in 1831 at the expense of Cantor Miguel Cortés.

The chapel is today inside a modern building over the Almoina Square. It belonged to the house of Cantor until the confiscation of 1835. Under the building several archaeological remains have been found, forming the Archaeological Crypt of the Prison of Saint Vicent Martyr.

The chapel is accessed through this cover consists of a round arch to the two columns flanking terraced Tuscan supporting an entablature of triglyphs and metopes. Above this, a second body in whose central niche there is a small figure of Saint Vicent Martyr 1998 work of the Valencian sculptor Rafael Orellana.

It is said that the chapel was built by the king himself Don Jaime. Its interior is divided into two separated by a pointed arch spaces. At the end of the room an altar and a front panel "socarrats" representing a scene of the martyrdom of Saint Vicent Martyr. In the lower right he says: He painted: Lola Miralles. Drew: Antono Thomas. January 2004. Quart de Poblet.

The key to the vault of the first section we find the same scene on the front panel, a representation of the martyrdom of the saint well known and displayed throughout history. In the same saint she is subject to the rack while some hooks pierce your skin to break strips. In the key of the second section we see the saint protected by crows and prevent your body from being eaten by other animals. The complete restoration of the chapel was taken in 1970 by the municipal architect Rieta Emilio Lopez.