{"id":88518,"date":"2026-10-14T22:40:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T20:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visitacostadamorte.com\/?post_type=contenido&#038;p=88518"},"modified":"2026-10-28T21:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T20:05:07","slug":"san-paio-de-coristanco-church","status":"publish","type":"contenido","link":"https:\/\/visitacostadamorte.com\/en\/post\/san-paio-de-coristanco-church","title":{"rendered":"San Paio de Coristanco Church"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">San Paio de Coristanco Church, in the <a href=\"https:\/\/visitacostadamorte.com\/en\/concellos\/coristanco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">municipality of Coristanco<\/a>, tells an unusual story: although the present building was constructed <strong>between 1900 and 1903<\/strong>, much of its religious art is considerably older. The rebuilding was led by parish priest Manuel Pose P\u00e9rez, who advanced his own money alongside contributions from parishioners. An <strong>inscription dated 1903<\/strong> on the fa\u00e7ade records that shared effort, making the exterior itself the first clue to the church&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new building was designed with a broad nave, side chapels and a chancel with a sacristy, beneath a barrel vault. <strong>Altarpieces from the former church<\/strong> were installed inside. The main Baroque altarpiece dates from the <strong>1760s<\/strong> and features characteristic decorative supports; it is attributed to the <strong>workshop of Antonio de Meis<\/strong>, although no surviving document confirms its authorship. Its sculptures include Saint Pelagius, Saint Lucy, Saint Blaise and Our Lady of Mount Carmel. The side chapels contain further altarpieces in a Neoclassical tradition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you have the chance to go inside, look for a revealing detail: the older altarpieces were too small for the new walls, so <strong>painted draperies<\/strong> were added behind them to help them fit the space visually. It neatly sums up the character of San Paio, a church rebuilt without discarding its artistic memory. This is a rewarding stop in Coristanco for anyone interested in how local communities preserved their heritage through periods of change.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discover San Paio de Coristanco Church and the religious heritage of Coristanco on the Costa da Morte.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":89107,"template":"","concellos-contenido":[314],"categorias-contenido":[248],"class_list":["post-88518","contenido","type-contenido","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","concellos-contenido-coristanco-en","categorias-contenido-arquitectura-religiosa-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitacostadamorte.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contenido\/88518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitacostadamorte.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contenido"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitacostadamorte.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/contenido"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitacostadamorte.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitacostadamorte.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"concellos-contenido","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitacostadamorte.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/concellos-contenido?post=88518"},{"taxonomy":"categorias-contenido","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitacostadamorte.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categorias-contenido?post=88518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}