THE ROMANESQUE IN ORDES

San Pedro de Ardemil is the first church that we find in the area of the town hall of Ordes. Several kilometres further on we’ll pass by the church of San Paio de Buscás. Both churches are by the side of the road. In the first, the road passes in front of its principal façade, in the second it passes by its apse.

Both are of simple construction, a single nave which corresponds to the Romanesque rural prototype. In Ardemil, the northern side door stands out, it finishes with two arched decorative stones and curved lintel. In the apse is a narrow saetera. In the front there is a transept and, at a short distance passing between several buildings, is the fountain of San Pedro. In years of drought the people would carry the image of San Pedro in procession and they would wash their feet in order to call the rain.

In the church of San Paio de Buscás Romanesque style can still be seen in its arched door and archivolts. The apse calls particular attention where, in a painted recess with double arch and polibulated exterior, one finds the image of the patron saint of the parish from 1732. At the entrance of the atrium there is a hundred-year-old oak tree. Slightly separated, and in the middle of the place, is the transept until where the processions arrive.