Catedral Viana Do Castelo


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Largo Intituto Histórico do Minho, 4900-522 Viana do Castelo, Portugal

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Religious, Romanesque, Gothic, and Revival architecture. Romanesque parish church of transition, with a Latin cross plan, with three staggered naves, each with four sections, a protruding transept, and a headboard composed of a rectangular main chapel and apsidolos, with different roofs in false vaults of cradle or cradled cradle, painted To the revivalist taste, and illuminated uniformly by rectilinear windows torn in the lateral facades and arms of the transepto. Main facade harmonica, finished in gable and torn by open portal in alfiz, with pointed arch, with four archivolts, decorated with phytomorphic motifs, angels musicians and instruments of the Passion in relief, set in columns with figures of Apostles attached, topped by wide rosacea . Bell towers torn by spans of different modinaturas and finished in ameado parapeito on blind arcade based on corns with frowns and anthropomorphic figures. Side facades of the ship in stonework surrounded by chapels seiscentistas and eighteenth, and other later constructions, towed and painted, with wedges stacked and finished in frieze and cornice. Interior with ships separated by arches pointed on pillars, having choir-high, baptistery on the side of the Gospel and two confronting pulpits, attached to the pillars of the central nave. The chapels of the chapels, apsis and sacristies have later structures: the Chapel of the Camaridos and the Holy Manueline water wash, chapels of Saint Bernard and Renaissance Saint Bartholomew, altarpiece and cloak of the chapel of the Baroque Holy, retable of the Rococo Mareans and other neoclassical altarpieces.



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