19Monastery of Santa María de Ferreira de Pantón

Pantón · Galicia

Known as the Monastery of the Bernardas, it is the only female Cistercian monastery in Galicia that maintains monastic life today. Of early-medieval origin, it was restored as a female house and incorporated into the Cistercian order in 1175. Its Romanesque church preserves a semicircular apse and Gothic tombs of the Lemos family.

Chronology and style

Origin 10th c. · Female Cistercian since 1175 · Romanesque, with Renaissance cloister

Ways and routes

CAMINO DE INVIERNO (WINTER WAY)