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route 9 Sarela river
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Carme de Abaixo Chapel
This classicist baroque temple has a single rectangular floor plan, a gabled roof and a circular lantern in the center. It was built between 1760 and 1773 over a previous small chapel. The original plans were by the architect Lucas Ferro Caveiro, but during construction the imprint of the Compostelan Baroque was lost, resulting in a work of a very rural nature. In 1867, Baltasar Ferreiro added a new plebisterium, so the original became a transept. The facade, in granite masonry, consists of three vertical bodies framed by pilasters and three horizontal bodies: the first with a linteled doorway, the second with a hollow flanked by columns and topped with a semicircular arch that includes the image of the Virgin and above a shield framed with a semicircular pediment. The tower-belfry crowns the set, of quadrangular plant and decorated and finished off with pinnacles and volutes. In the interior, the main altar, of baroque style, follows the model of those made by Miguel Ferro Cavero.