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Church of San Pedro de Angoares

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Church of San Pedro de Angoares

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Church of San Pedro de Angoares

The church of San Pedro de Angoares is the parish church of this place, in the municipality of Ponteareas (Pontevedra), and the most distinctive Romanesque piece among its twenty-four parishes. It originated in a monastery probably of Visigothic date, on which the present Romanesque church was built in the 12th century, with a Latin-cross plan and a rectangular apse, a solution almost without parallel in Galicia that is repeated only at Santa María de Tera (Zamora). The old Romanesque façade disappeared in a rebuilding of 1900, replaced by a neo-Gothic one of no architectural value. It does, however, retain a notable collection of anthropomorphic and zoomorphic corbels — quadrupeds, bovine heads, one in a meditative pose — and, on the north wall of the apse, a pre-Romanesque band and a slab decorated with interlacing.

Photo: [https://www.flickr.com/people/17364971@N00 José Antonio Gil Martínez] from Vigo (CC BY 2.0)

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