O Saviñao

O Saviñao (Galician pronunciation: [ʊ saβiˈɲaʊ]) is a Concello (council) in the province of Lugo, Galicia belonging to the district of Terra de Lemos.

The municipality O Saviñao is located in the Ribeira Sacra, in the District of Terra de Lemos, located in the southern part of the province of Lugo, bordered by the municipalities of Pardela and Taboada to the north, Pantón to the south and east, Monforte de Lemos and Vault and west Taboada and Chantada.

The main door does resemble the Portico, but in a smaller version, with artistic connections to the portals of San Xoan de Portomarin and the cathedral of Ourense.

It is dedicated to San Pelayo, and an inscription of 1170 on the interior of the tympanum of the west portal dates the setting of the lintel.

The sculptural decoration at Diomondi is related to Lugo Cathedral, and the same masons worked at San Pedro de Portomarin where a faded inscription on the west tympanum records the date of 1182 for the church's consecration.

D'Emilio, James, "Inscriptions and the Romanesque Church: Patrons, Prelates, and Craftsmen in Romanesque Galicia," in Spanish Medieval Art: Recent Studies, ed., Colum Hourihane (Tempe, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2007), 1–34.