Templo da Veracruz

Galicia


The extraordinary Templo da Veracruz rises like some Disneyesque fantasy amid the grey apartment blocks of O Carballiño. It resembles a great Gothic cathedral but was actually built in the 1940s and 50s, in local stone to designs of Galician architect Antonio Palacios.


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