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The external apse of the church is surrounded by three columns with carved capitals, below a cornice of
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The monastery was founded by a donation of D. Godinho Fafes (or
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richly decorated with five pre-Romanesque blind arcades supported by vegetal columns (with traces of medieval frescoes), while the upper one are decorations like doors, with archivolts on sober columns with worked capitals.
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decided to convert it into an archdeaconry. The church was restored in the 16th century. It is classified as a
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with two rings in the same style as the door, thus probably by the same master of works.
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