Monastery of Saint Benedict of Arnoia - Rota do Românico

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Monastery of Saint Benedict of Arnoia


Largo do Mosteiro, Arnoia, Celorico de Basto

41.36707, -8.015889

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Its plan comprises a longitudinal church with a single nave and a narrower square chancel, a square bell tower addorsed to the north section of the main façade, and monastic dependencies addorsed to the south, advanced in relation to the church's main façade and organized around a square cloister; their south section is extended to the west, thus shaping an L around the patio.

The series of predominantly horizontal volumes is interrupted by the bell tower's verticality. Different two-, three- and four-gabled roofs and spire crowned by a weather vane in the bell tower. A church with granite façades topped by a cornice under eaves. The main façade is oriented, framed by Tuscan pilasters, crowned by urns and topped by a triangular pediment with a large Latin cross on an acroterium.


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