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Church of San Pedro Fiz do Hospital

O Incio, Sarria, Lugo

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Church of San Pedro Fiz do Hospital

Monument · O Incio, Sarria, Lugo

Romanesque church from the late 12th century built entirely of bluish marble quarried locally, a unique case in Galicia, whose pale fabric contrasts with the granite usually found in the churches of the Lugo mountains. It formed part, together with the nearby church of Puertomarín, of a commandery of the Hospitaller Order of St John, which maintained here a fortress, hostel and hospital for pilgrims on this variant of the Camino. The west portal, with four archivolts adorned with rosettes, shows a Maltese cross on the tympanum; in the north wall opens a 15th-century marble arcosolium with the tomb of Friar Álvaro de Quiroga, commander of Puertomarín, of whom tradition says that if the lid is lifted the church will collapse. It was declared a historic-artistic monument on 19 June 1981.

Photo: José Antonio Gil Martínez from Vigo, Spain (CC BY 2.0)

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