Church bells that stopped ringing more than a century ago will ring again. The main voice will be the Santa Catalina bell, which receives the colloquial name of La Gerra.
The new main bell preserves the English style, with the Valencian-style wooden yoke and forged clapper. It has a total weight of three tons (1,810 kilos, without the counterweight) and a diameter of 146.5 cm. “We are already approaching the original set and now we have to maintain the momentum,” says the rector of the church, José Benito Gallego. The church was built in the 13th century and was named after the previous mosque in the neighborhood. It is the only church in Valencia, together with the cathedral, that has three naves and an ambulatory or ambulatory, on the occasion of the 12th anniversary of King Jaume I's conquest of the city. Its sounds can be heard for the first time on May 12, the day of the celebration of the birth of Jaume's daughter.