Lands of Anaris

A territory cut by the mythical Eume River, in the last European Atlantic forest

Church of Santiago

Church of Santiago

A neoclassical facade with baroque reminiscences.

The main chapel with the old sacristy was built by D. Fernando de Andrade in the first third of the 16th century. Covered with a starry vault, in it, next to the seated Santiago made of polychrome granite from the late 14th century, is the Renaissance altarpiece, made in 1530 and expanded and gilded in 1564 by the immediate descendants of Don Fernando. Its paintings on panel depicting Passion cycles have an indisputable stylistic unity, closer to Flemish Gothic than the Renaissance.

The rest of the church is a work sponsored by the Archbishop of Santiago, born in Pontedeume, Don Bartolomé Rajoy y Losada, carried out between 1756 and 1763. The facade with its towers, a prominent example of Galician Baroque, was contracted by Alberto Ricoy.

In the year 2021, its main altarpiece was restored.