Tirgo

It is a late Romanesque building built in ashlar, begun at the end of the 12th or beginning of the 13th century. It consists of a nave with three bays and a presbytery, both rectangular and covered with a pointed barrel vault, separated from the apse by a triumphal arch supported by a belfry with two bays. The apse is semicircular, narrower and covered with a pointed quarter-sphere vault. The complex must have been built in two stages, as different hands can be seen: the chevet up to the triumphal arch must have been built between the 12th and 13th centuries by a good craftsman with knowledge of both architecture and sculpture, as he introduced historical themes; the nave and the belfry were perhaps built in the mid-13th century by a less skilled stonemason with no notions of sculpture, as he only sculpted plant motifs. MONUMENTAL SCULPTURE The apse has three semicircular windows. They are decorated with different geometric motifs: diamond latticework, undulating lines, nail heads, blades, etc. ….. The capitals are decorated with pine cones, palmettes, a double-tailed fish-mermaid holding her two sea limbs in her hands, and two symmetrical birds facing each other and pecking at a tree […]