Igrexa de Santiago-San Francisco


This 14th-century church is one of Galicia's finest pieces of Gothic architecture. Some images from Viveiro's Semana Santa processions are on display in the adjoining cloister.

The church features five slender pointed-arch windows in the apse, and a number of noble tombs in the transepts.


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