Concatedral de San Nicolas

On 6 December 1244, feast of St. Nicholas, Muslims surrendered the city to the then Prince Alfonso X the Wise. The prince ordered to build a church in honor of St. Nicholas and put the city under his protection.

The Collegiate Church of San Nicolas de Alicante was erected as Concathedral the March 9, 1959, by Bula of Pope John XXIII, by which the diocese of Orihuela passed renamed -Alicante and this church was elevated to the rank of Concatedral. The bull was executed on August 15, 1959 in solemn celebration, starting from the Parroquia de Gracia, with the bull carried by the bishop, under a canopy, he came to St. Nicholas where he was read and celbró the Eucharist, in the Santa Faz, which he had been trasladad until l Schoolboy, where he had gone after the war, more than three years. In the various views of the Santa Faz Alicante it has always had a place of residence the Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas.

The building is situated in the historic center of Alicante, near the Calle Mayor. It was built between 1616 and 1738 in the space formerly occupied by a medieval church. It brings together different styles, from mannerism desornamentado the main to the full Baroque Chapel of the Communion ship.

Currently the Cathedral of San Nicolas de Alicante is the religious center of the city and shares the title with the Cathedral of Orihuela. Both are branches of the bishop of the Diocese of Orihuela - Alicante since John XXIII named this hitherto collegiate church, as Co-Cathedral of the Diocese in 1959.