Audioguide

Church of Taboada dos Freires

The Taboada dos Freires church was built in the 12th century but underwent significant renovation in 1927. Of the original church, only the main door, a single window at the end of the apse and some corbels in the nave remain.

This rectangular church has granite walls and a ridged tile roof. Inside, on one side, is a rounded triumphal arch. The wall at the end of the apse has a window with a half rounded archivolt and elbow columns with an inscribed cross holding up the tympanum.

The most important element is the tympanum, on which there is a depiction of the biblical scene of Sampson strangling a lion.