CHURCHES
STONES WITH HISTORY
The rich past of these lands is evident in the abundance of archaeological remains and in the architectural and cultural heritage, which testify to the continuity and historical evolution from the first settlers to the present day.
The religious and ethnographic heritage reflect a prosperous past, where the buildings used to store surpluses take on monumental proportions. The Celts, the Great Sisterhood War or the Spanish War of Independence also left their mark on this territory.
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CHURCHES
Church of Santa Comba de Carnota
Church of San Mamede
Church of San Clemente de O Pindo
Chapel of Remedios
Church of Santa María de Lira
Chapel of San Gregorio
Church of Santa Comba de Carnota
The Church of Santa Comba is part of a complex made up of the temple, the rectory, the dovecote and the granary.
The church, built in the 18th century in classicist baroque style, is dated 1755. Its plan is a fusion between the Latin cross and the basilica and internally it is divided into three naves, separated by pilasters, which are covered with vaults.
The main facade is divided by four pilasters with Ionic capitals and vegetable decoration, and finished by a triangular pediment that acts as a cornice.
In the entire facade there are only two openings, the one corresponding to the access door and an oval oculus.
In the 19th century, a bell tower was added, the work of master Carlos Aboy. Also in this century, modifications were made to the main facade, adding certain neoclassical decorations.
The main altar is presided by a beautiful altarpiece, the work of the sculptor Xosé Ferreiro. Various existing carvings inside the church are also attributed to this author.
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Church of San Mamede
The Church of San Mamede is an 18th century Baroque building, built around 1755. It has a Latin cross plan and is composed of a single nave and a slender tower divided into four parts.
The transept, framed by four arches, is covered with a ridge vault resulting from the intersection of the two naves, the longitudinal and the transversal. The pulpits that open in the area of ​​the cross stand out. At the feet there is a high choir, made with a wooden structure, with a side entrance. On the side walls of the nave there are two twin furnaces with single altars that complete the main passage of the nave. From the presbytery you can access the sacristy, which was added on the left side, and is lower than the rest of the temple.
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On the main facade, a richly decorated furnace houses the stone image of the patron saint, San Mamede, and a sundial is preserved on the right side. Inside, the main altarpiece stands out, in neoclassical style, commissioned in 1774 and made by the sculptors Xosé Ferreiro and Xosé Gambino. There are carvings of different saints: presiding over the altarpiece is the Virgin of the Rosary and above her the image of the patron Saint Mamede; next to them are S. Pablo, S. Pedro, S. Xosé and S. Xoán Bautista.
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Church of San Clemente de O Pindo
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To the left of the altar of the Church of San Clemente do Pindo there is a door that gives access to the primitive chapel in honor of San Clemente, dated in the 17th century, which would later undergo an addition, which would cause it to lose its original orientation.
Clemente Riveiro Fernández, a resident of Pindo, was the founder of this chapel in 1771, which later became the parish church. It has a strange configuration due to its addition in 1906, orientating the main facade to the northeast, when it is usual for churches to have the main facade facing west.
The original chapel has a rectangular plan with a single nave and is divided into three parts. The initial and final parts are covered with a barrel vault (which preserves polychromy in the apse), while in the central part we find an edge vault. The walls are made of granite masonry and the original roof was pitched. It is worth noting the altar, carved in stonework by the Santiago de Compostela sculptor Antonio del Río in 1795, the plans for this altar being designed by the architect, also from Santiago, Xosé Cachafeiro.
A few meters from the church is the Praia de San Pedro do Pindo, with striking turquoise waters. You can also see the Mouchos peninsula and Cape Fisterra in the background.
Chapel of Remedios
The Chapel of the Virgin of the Remedies dates from 1706. Popular memory claims that the construction of this chapel was motivated by the revelation of the Virgin of the Remedies in this same place, although there are other hypotheses that point to the fact that it was built so that the shepherds could go to the mass on Sundays without losing sight of the cattle. ​
Inside it preserves a copy of the original "Revelation" of the virgin, which was made of stone and of which nothing is known. It also has a model of the ship Ariete, which ran aground at Punta dos Remedios on February 25, 1966. Both the crew of the frigate and the entire population of the place attributed the rescue to the Virgen dos Remedios and since then the chapel has had a clear seafaring devotion
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Church of Santa María de Lira
The Church of Santa María de Lira was built in 1760 and later expanded in 1825. It has a basilica plan, composed of a single narrow and elongated nave, divided internally into four sections, the first three covered with semicircular arches and a barrel vault and the one corresponding to the area of ​​the altar with a cross vault.
It is a construction of extreme simplicity and with little ornamentation, although externally its bell tower stands out, which is covered by a lantern topped with pinnacles. Together with the horreo, the rectory and the dovecote, it forms a unique architectural ensemble.
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Chapel of San Gregorio
Located in the center of the town, in the Plaza de San Gregorio which gives its name. It is a small chapel from the 17th century that has a rectangular footprint with a single nave. Its walls were built with large slabs of granite and it is covered on two levels with country tiles. On the main facade there are two openings, one corresponding to the access door, formed by a semicircular arch, and the other to the rectangular window. Ornamental elements are very limited with the exception of a small belfry topped by two pinnacles and a cross.