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Founding of the monastery of San Pedro de Vilanova

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Founding of the monastery of San Pedro de Vilanova

Historical milestone · Dozón, Deza, Pontevedra

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The monastery of San Pedro de Vilanova, in the parish of Dozón beside the river of the same name, was founded in 1154 by Guntrodo Suárez, widow of Paio Martínez, as a Benedictine convent of nuns dependent on Oseira; an inscription on the apse confirms the date. It received royal privileges from Ferdinand II, Alfonso X and Sancho IV, and in 1499 its community was merged into San Paio de Antealtares, causing the monastery to disappear. The Romanesque church still stands, with a single nave and semicircular apse, a wooden roof on corbels and pointed-arch doorways with plant-motif capitals, today serving as the parish church.

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