Monastery of Carboeiro

San Lourenzo de Carboeiro

Viewed from the south
Monastery information
Order Benedictine
Established 10th century
Diocese Lugo
Site
Location Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain
Coordinates 42°45′18.09″N 8°14′48.34″W / 42.7550250°N 8.2467611°WCoordinates: 42°45′18.09″N 8°14′48.34″W / 42.7550250°N 8.2467611°W

The Monastery of San Lourenzo de Carboeiro is one of the architectural works of the late Romanesque, the transition to the Gothic, most outstanding of Galicia.

It is a Benedictine monastery founded in the 10th century and which lived their moments of greatest splendor between centuries 11th and 13th which is still in good condition to his church and some monastic departments, through the works of restoration and recovery made from the second half of the twentieth century.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Monastery of Carboeiro.