Iglesia de Santa Eufemia
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"Although it was built as part of an old Jesuit college, the Church of Santa Eufemia has been the parish church of the Ourense diocese since 1767, coinciding with the expulsion of the religious order from Spain. Its façade, the work of Fray Plácido Iglesias, is an archetype of Galician Baroque. It combines sumptuousness, the use of curved lines and the play of light in its recesses and projections with the most typical details of Galician art: the use of granite, the giant order of columns, the pinnacles or the pediment split with a cross.
Its peculiar concave shape is striking: it is possibly a resource used to give greater monumentality to a captive façade in a narrow street. It would not be until several years later that the square that it presides over today and that connects it with the neighbouring Cathedral was ordered and built."
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