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Pilar Roig, professor in the Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage Department and researcher at the Research Institute for the Heritage Restoration at the Universitat Politècnica de València, will receive her recognition as Distinguished Daughter of València on 6 October. The award will be part of the celebration of the Day of the Valencian Community.

"It is a great honour for me to receive this distinction, which recognises the entire team with whom I have worked and continue to work at the Universitat Politècnica de València. And the fact that it is my city, where I was born and I love so much, that believes we are worthy of this distinction, is a great source of pride,' says Pilar Roig.

In addition, the UPV researcher emphasised that this distinction contributes in a ‘very important’ way to one of her main objectives: to put heritage conservation and restoration on the map, a challenge that Pilar Roig has been working on since the beginning of her career.

‘For all these reasons, we are extremely grateful to all those who have thought of awarding us this distinction, in this case represented by me as the Distinguished Daughter of my city; a city for which we will continue to work, to restore its memory and contribute to recovering all the splendour of its heritage,’ says Pilar Roig.

Currently, under the patronage of the Hortensia Herrero Foundation and with the entire team of the Research Institute for the Heritage Restoration at the Universitat Politècnica de València, Pilar Roig is facing the final stage of what she defines as her life's great project: the restoration of the paintings in the Church of Los Santos Juanes.

About Pilar Roig

The architect behind the restoration of the frescoes in the Church of San Nicolás, Pilar Roig (València, 1949), has a long and distinguished career in the field of heritage conservation. Awarded the Medal of the Valencian Council of Culture (CVC) for her dedication and contribution to the protection and restoration of Valencian heritage, Roig studied at the School of Fine Arts and completed her training in Italy thanks to a scholarship from the Juan March Foundation and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The Valencian restorer has executed numerous internationally recognised projects, such as the restoration of the Ethiopian city of Lalibela, where her team recovered 11 12th-century churches built into the rock; the dome of the Basilica of Mare de Déu dels Desamparats in València (between 1998 and 2003), for which she received the 2006 Europa Nostra Award; the restoration of the Church of Sant Joan del Mercat; and the frescoes of the Church of San Nicolás, a project that was awarded the 2025 Hispania Nostra Award last May.