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Monastery of San Lourenzo de Carboeiro

Silleda, Deza, Pontevedra

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Monastery of San Lourenzo de Carboeiro

Monument · Silleda, Deza, Pontevedra

The monastery of San Lourenzo de Carboeiro, whose founding charter is dated to around the year 936, stands on a meander of the río Deza, in the parish of Santa María de Carboeiro, in the territory known as Trasdeza, whose name refers to the charcoal-burning activity that made use of its dense forest vegetation. Its church, with three naves and a transept, from the twelfth century, is one of the finest works of late Galician Romanesque; it retains an ambulatory with radiating chapels, an exceptional solution in Galician architecture. It enjoyed its period of greatest splendour between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries, and the information about its history is owed chiefly to Father Antonio de Yepes, who visited it in 1600. It has been a monumento histórico-artístico (former Spanish heritage-protection category, predecessor of the Bien de Interés Cultural) since 1931.

Photo: FreeCat / José Antonio Gil Martínez from Vigo, Galicia (CC BY 2.0)

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