San Martiño de Betán

Location. Betán in the parish of San Martiño de Betán.

Type of monument. Church of early medieval origin and Romanesque and Baroque styles. Of interest: architectural-artistic, ethnographic and historical.

Dating. High-medieval period. Beginning of the 13th century.

Description
Romanesque style church, from the beginning of the 13th century, renovated in the 18th century in the Baroque style. With a rectangular floor plan, well-carved granite stone walls and buttresses on the sides. On the outside there are corbels on the lateral cornices.

The main façade has an arched cornice and crowned with pinnacles at the corners, above it is the belfry, made of a single body and topped by a pyramid crowned with a stone cross. The entrance door has a semicircular arch and a Romanesque lintel at the front. It contains a stone shield carved on the inside with a ‘pate’ cross that divides the space into four parts; in each part there is the figure of an animal.

The Romanesque elements that can be seen are: the lintel of the entrance and fifteen corbels in the eaves and also the one that can be seen in the window at the top of the belfry.