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Monastery of Santa María de Penamaior

Becerreá, Ancares, Lugo

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Monastery of Santa María de Penamaior

Monument · Becerreá, Ancares, Lugo

The monastery of Santa María de Penamaior is a former Cistercian abbey located in the parish of the same name, within the municipality of Becerreá. Its earliest reference dates from the year 922, although the current building is considerably later: the entrance tympanum bears the carved year 1177. It first depended as a priory on the monastery of Carracedo, affiliated to the Cistercian order in 1203, and in 1225 it attained the status of an abbey directly dependent on that order, noted as the only Galician monastery with that dependency; in 1505 it was absorbed into the Congregation of Castile and lost its abbatial rank. The church, Romanesque, has a three-nave basilical plan and preserves a doorway with archivolts and a tympanum with a cross flanked by a lion and a tree.

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