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Church of San Martiño de Lalín

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Church of San Martiño de Lalín

Monument · Lalín, Deza, Pontevedra

A parish church whose origin lies in a monastery documented around the year 980, from which the settlement's history begins; the present temple preserves the memory of that early medieval foundation, somewhat set apart from the centre of the town, at the place called Lalín de Arriba. It is a twelfth-century Romanesque church, with a single-nave plan and a rectangular apse, which originally served a monastery founded around 980 by the bishop of Mondoñedo, Arias Peláez, as recorded in the will of his niece Adosinda, dated 1019. In the early twentieth century, when the new church of Santa María das Dores was built in the centre of Lalín, San Martiño came close to being demolished because of its remote location, but the opposition of local residents prevented it: in 1905, eight parishioners bought it from the diocese of Lugo.

Photo: Xas (Public domain)

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