Rating
4.4/5 (based on Google user reviews)
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User Reviews
Begoña Del Pozo Jimemez (3 months ago)
Beautiful views and a visit to the outside, since it was closed and did not have opening hours or anything.
Beautiful views and a visit to the outside, since it was closed and did not have opening hours or anything.
Rocio Paramio (3 months ago)
In this Monastery there is a guardian of the abbey. Receive all pilgrims, with infinite sweetness. They want to rebuild the Monastery. I hope they get it. I take with me a great memory from them and a stick to be able to walk, courtesy of a man who makes them for pilgrims. Thank you.
In this Monastery there is a guardian of the abbey. Receive all pilgrims, with infinite sweetness. They want to rebuild the Monastery. I hope they get it. I take with me a great memory from them and a stick to be able to walk, courtesy of a man who makes them for pilgrims. Thank you.
José Sánchez Olmedo (4 months ago)
Beautiful setting at the beginning of the English path. It was closed.
Beautiful setting at the beginning of the English path. It was closed.
Pepito Sánchez (5 months ago)
Very pretty on the outside but we couldn't see it on the inside. It was closed.
Very pretty on the outside but we couldn't see it on the inside. It was closed.
Jesús Soto (9 months ago)
PLACE OF POWER. Origin: 9th century. Style: Romanesque with later baroque style additions from the 18th century. Asset of cultural interest of great artistic and historical wealth. Located in the town of Narón (A Coruña) built in a privileged location on the edge of the Ría de Ferrol. It was invaded on several occasions by Viking ships that entered through the estuary. As for its structure, it consists of three semicircular apses, showing a French taste that could have arrived in Xuvia with the Cluniac monks from the year 1114. Above the central nave, three steps give way to the main chapel, profusely illuminated by three beautiful windows, framed in a large triumphal arch. Two semicircular arches make up the two apsidal chapels of the gospel nave. A common wooden covering extends its roof over the three naves. The door is unique, there is no other similar one in any known Romanesque church. It lacks a tympanum, because the original was broken and was later reused as the base of a window in the monastic quarters. Very simple, the door is built on two archivolts crowned by a decorative arch of squares and semicircles cut into the stone (blocks and bills). It shows a Cistercian rigor that could have arrived at the end of the 12th century. The local historian D. Arturo Souto Vizoso in his Monographic Synopsis of the Benedictine monastery of San Martín de Jubia o del Couto, (1981) - attributed its foundation without any reference - to a small group of Portuguese monks who escaped from the monastery of San Martín de Dumio due to the Moors, this author also maintaining that Bermudo I would have begun the reconstruction works of the monastery in the year 789, after its destruction by the Moors who - according to him, without documentary support - would have occupied Trasancos. It is known that in the year 844 the monastery of Tartares (a toponym that could be a reduplication [T]arta[b]ri of the ancient Celtic name Artabri, generic of the region, called in the Middle Ages "Terra de Trasancos"), was attacked and destroyed by the first wave of Viking invasions that reached Galicia and was immediately rebuilt by the duke and bishop Argimiro The remains of Mr. Rodrigo Esquío rest there. Medieval knight from the 15th century. The capitals of the monastic church are very beautiful, with vegetal motifs and also figured as the two horsemen on the left capital of the apse of the epistle; and the capital of the second semi-column of the epistle nave with a scene from the Wild Hunt. On the outside, the singular elegance of the very high apses and the beautiful corbels stand out, with zodiacal representations, or Celtic reminiscences such as the motif known internationally as Sheela na gig. The current bell tower was built in 1780 and the current monastic quarters are also mostly from the 18th century. Only some remains of the primitive factory integrated into the eastern wall remain. In 1835 Mendizábal decreed the confiscation and Juvia (Xuvia) became a parish church.
PLACE OF POWER. Origin: 9th century. Style: Romanesque with later baroque style additions from the 18th century. Asset of cultural interest of great artistic and historical wealth. Located in the town of Narón (A Coruña) built in a privileged location on the edge of the Ría de Ferrol. It was invaded on several occasions by Viking ships that entered through the estuary. As for its structure, it consists of three semicircular apses, showing a French taste that could have arrived in Xuvia with the Cluniac monks from the year 1114. Above the central nave, three steps give way to the main chapel, profusely illuminated by three beautiful windows, framed in a large triumphal arch. Two semicircular arches make up the two apsidal chapels of the gospel nave. A common wooden covering extends its roof over the three naves. The door is unique, there is no other similar one in any known Romanesque church. It lacks a tympanum, because the original was broken and was later reused as the base of a window in the monastic quarters. Very simple, the door is built on two archivolts crowned by a decorative arch of squares and semicircles cut into the stone (blocks and bills). It shows a Cistercian rigor that could have arrived at the end of the 12th century. The local historian D. Arturo Souto Vizoso in his Monographic Synopsis of the Benedictine monastery of San Martín de Jubia o del Couto, (1981) - attributed its foundation without any reference - to a small group of Portuguese monks who escaped from the monastery of San Martín de Dumio due to the Moors, this author also maintaining that Bermudo I would have begun the reconstruction works of the monastery in the year 789, after its destruction by the Moors who - according to him, without documentary support - would have occupied Trasancos. It is known that in the year 844 the monastery of Tartares (a toponym that could be a reduplication [T]arta[b]ri of the ancient Celtic name Artabri, generic of the region, called in the Middle Ages "Terra de Trasancos"), was attacked and destroyed by the first wave of Viking invasions that reached Galicia and was immediately rebuilt by the duke and bishop Argimiro The remains of Mr. Rodrigo Esquío rest there. Medieval knight from the 15th century. The capitals of the monastic church are very beautiful, with vegetal motifs and also figured as the two horsemen on the left capital of the apse of the epistle; and the capital of the second semi-column of the epistle nave with a scene from the Wild Hunt. On the outside, the singular elegance of the very high apses and the beautiful corbels stand out, with zodiacal representations, or Celtic reminiscences such as the motif known internationally as Sheela na gig. The current bell tower was built in 1780 and the current monastic quarters are also mostly from the 18th century. Only some remains of the primitive factory integrated into the eastern wall remain. In 1835 Mendizábal decreed the confiscation and Juvia (Xuvia) became a parish church.
