Terras de Celanova e Serra do Xurés

CHURCH OF SAN MARTIÑO DE LOIRO

CHURCH OF SAN MARTIÑO DE LOIRO

Romanesque church
Built in the 12th century (1110) and later modified. Small rural Romanesque church with a single nave. It conserves the triumphal arch with a window over the Romanesque apse from the first stage. It has two lateral doors on the outside and on the main façade it has a door with archivolts and three baquetons surrounding the tympanum, which is formed by a window and two human figures surrounding a cross. Above it is a pearled cornice supported by small arches decorated with human, mythological, animal, vegetal and geometric figures. There is a cross on the roof of the nave and an Agnus Dei in the apse. Its western doorway shows clear influences from Ourense Cathedral.