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Church of San Salvador de Sanguñedo

Verea, Terra de Celanova, Ourense

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Church of San Salvador de Sanguñedo

Monument · Verea, Terra de Celanova, Ourense

The church of San Salvador de Sanguñedo, completed in 1707 according to the stonemason's inscription on the rear façade, was built in the early 18th century for the parish of Sanguñedo, in Verea, and is an archetype of rural Galician religious architecture. The façade, with a door topped by a plain lintel, ends in a curved cornice crowned by two pinnacles, and the bell tower, a two-arched espadaña (bell-gable) with one bell in each arch, is crowned with two further pinnacles and a lightning-rod cross. It retains three altars: the main one, with a retable carved in 1713 by Gregorio Álvarez and gilded by Agustín Vázquez, and two side altars, of the Virgen del Carmen and of the Dolores. It belongs to one of the eleven parishes of a border concello that has lost a third of its population since 2003.

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