Concello de O Incio

HOSPITAL DE INCIO GROUP One of the marvels of Galicia. It is very well preserved and administered. Romanic style at its best. SAN PEDRO FIZ DE HOSPITAL CHURCH, Twelfth and thirteenth century. Legend has it that the devil built it in one night. It is part of an architectural group built by the military order of Saint Juan of Jerusalem.

They are made out of good quality local limestone and marble masonry limestone and marble masonry. The rectangular nave has a protected entrance decorated with two robust pilasters; above these there is a trumpet-shaped arch made out of four decorated Doric arches separated by scotias. At the top there is a monolithic tympanum which shows the Maltese Cross as coat of arms. Above the entrance there is a large window with a wide opening on the inside and a trumpet-shaped exterior.

Although the main entrance is very beautiful,the south entrance stands out. The apse has been finished, and, it can be said, to pure and simple “perfection”¹. It stands pentagonally to the inside and semicircular to the outside, with three decorative arched windows and cantilevers on the roof. The inside has a barrel vault, which is divided into three parts at the front. It is simply decorated with geometric, and floral designs. The two free-standing towers are noteworthy, and probably have a military origin. The north tower is now used as the belfry. The south tower, which is not in very good condition, preserves a gothic window and is used as the Family Pantheon for the Quirogas.

The church is declared HORSERADISH TREE OF INTERESTS CULTURAL WITH CATEGORIA OF MONUMENT HISTORIC ARTISTIC, RD 1761/1981

Inside the church we can see the SARCOPHAGUS OF FRAY ALONSO DE QUIROGA . Word is that the day someone lifts the marble top the church will collapse. Below a Gothic funereal monument on the north wall there is a magnificent marble tomb holding the recumbent statue of Álvaro or Alonso de Quiroga, military commander of Incio y Portomarín. There are several sepulchral plaques on the floor

On the front there are two buttresses on each side of the main door, which is Romanic and has four arches, a tympanum decorated with a coat of arms with the Malta Cross, columns of monolithic shafts and vegetables capitals

The current vestry and cemetery were used as lodgings and a hospital for pilgrims

There is also a Romanic Virgin, a slightly Gothic Christ and what appears to be the remains of a Pre-Romanic marble altar representing Christ on the cross

¹Words from Darío Xoán Cabana, in "Guía da provincia de Lugo". Ed. Galaxia.