Duxame: Church Art, Architectural History and Landscape
Accommodation in Duxame
Duxame can be explored when searching for a hotel through two themes: historic buildings and art, and the flooding of land by the Portodemouros Reservoir. The chapel of the House of Duxame, the Church of San Miguel de Dúxame and the Casa Grande de Dúxame manor house represent different aspects of architectural and art history. The reservoir adds a landscape perspective. When planning your trip, you can weigh whether you are more interested in the named buildings and their history or in the landscape.
Chapel of the House of Duxame
The chapel of the House of Duxame has a Baroque altar of the Compostela type. It also contains an 18th-century ivory image of Saint Michael. The chapel thus combines a stylistic classification for the altar with a specifically named material and subject for the image. It can therefore be characterized both through an art-historical classification and through a specific pictorial subject. For travelers interested in art and historic interiors, this combination offers a particular point of interest.
Churches and architectural history
The Church of San Miguel de Dúxame dates from the 18th century. Its floor plan is shaped like a Greek cross; it also has a single nave and two apses. It is topped by a barrel vault. A Greek-cross floor plan describes the basic shape of the building, while the nave and apses name further elements of the church interior, and the barrel vault describes the form of the vault. The bell tower has three sections and four openings. These features bring together the date of the church with specific details about its floor plan, spatial layout, vault and tower.
The year 1750 is associated with the Baroque remodeling of the parish church of Duxame in the 18th century. Compared with the century-level dating of San Miguel, 1750 provides a more precise chronological reference. This date supplements the general 18th-century dating with a more specific time reference for the parish church.
Casa Grande de Dúxame and Casa de Outeiro
The Casa Grande de Dúxame manor house is also known as Casa de Outeiro; both names refer to the same building. It is surrounded by walls and includes a hórreo and an outbuilding. These structures are part of the description of the place, alongside the manor house. Unlike the church, the focus here is on the manor house and its components, while San Miguel is defined architecturally by its floor plan, apses, vault and bell tower.
Portodemouros Reservoir and landscape
The Portodemouros Reservoir flooded land in Duxame. Unlike the features of the chapel, church and manor house, this does not concern a single building, but rather land in Duxame. Thus, alongside architectural and art history, a change to the landscape is another aspect of the destination.
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