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Monastery of Santa Catarina de Montefaro

Ares, Ferrol, A Coruña

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Monastery of Santa Catarina de Montefaro

Monument · Ares, Ferrol, A Coruña

Convent located in the parish of Cervás, high on the Bezoucos peninsula (Ares, A Coruña), with simultaneous views over the rías of Ferrol and Ares. It was founded on 3 August 1393 by Fernán Pérez de Andrade, O Boo, for the Third Order of Saint Francis, who granted it ecclesiastical control over several parishes in the area, among them the Chanteiro hermitage, destination of the Romería del Voto pilgrimage. Of the original building only a doorway survives, with pointed archivolts and zoomorphic-decorated capitals; the Franciscans disappeared with the Mendizábal disentailment in 1837 and the building was used by the military until the year 2000, when it passed to the Ares concello. It was declared a Bien de Interés Cultural (Spain's highest level of heritage protection) in 2000.

Photo: Amador Loureiro from Ferrol, Galiza (CC BY-SA 2.0)

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