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Basílica de Santa María a Maior

TIME : 2016/2/19 1:51:57

Pontevedra's most impressive church is a mainly Gothic affair with a whiff of plateresque and Portuguese Manueline influences. It was built by Pontevedra’s sailors’ guild. Busts of Christopher Columbus and that other great empire-builder Hernán Cortés flank the rosette window on the western facade.