“In 2014, they invited the director of restoration of the Sistine Chapel. He entered here and exclaimed, ‘Why didn’t you tell me you had a Sistine Chapel in Valencia?’” our guide Konstantin, of Discovering Valencia, paused as my wife and I stared up in awe where beams of sunlight, glowing in the incense smoke, lit up a magnificent expanse of frescoes. “When you see the church from outside, you are not thinking to go in.”

Church of Saint Nicholas of Bari and Saint Peter Martyr. Courtesy of Visit València