Torre de San Salvador - Bergondo, A Coruña, Galicia, España
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Ariberna
N 43° 19.355 W 008° 14.474
29T E 561521 N 4796917
Tower of church BIC since 19
Waymark Code: WM14JA5
Location: Galicia, Spain
Date Posted: 07/15/2021
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The tower of camoanas consists of a belfry of two bodies flanked by two pinnacles each of them. It has two bells and culminates in a large pointed iron cross.
Description:
It is an old Benedictine convent, of which the church is currently preserved in good condition, although much renovated. It has a basilica floor plan with three naves and three apses. The naves are divided into four compartments, divided by pillars with semi-columns attached, which support the pointed arches.
The apses are covered by barrel and quarter-sphere vaults. The roof is made of gabled wood.
The walls of the church are supported by solid buttresses and the main façade is adorned with semicircular archivolts on leaning columns. The door of the temple has two pairs of columns with leaf capitals and toric bases, which support a double splayed arch, sculpted with chess and reliefs. Two corbels support the tympanum adorned only with semicircular arches. As a result of a reform, he lost the belfry and the Romanesque rose window.
In the presbytery and on the south wall you can see two interesting medieval sarcophagi.
On its roof is the emblem of the wild boar, a symbol of the Andrades, a family that paid for the expenses caused by a fire in the fourteenth century.
The chapel of Santa Catalina, attached to the south wall, is dated between the 14th and 15th centuries. It has a cruciform vault and leaning columns. It also preserves medieval sarcophagi.
The cloister of the monastery was partially rehabilitated in 2004 by the Xunta de Galicia, after the cleaning of the building's surroundings began at the end of the 20th century, in charge of several workshop schools."
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