The ruins of Santa María Doro (dorsum = hill), rise over a hill at the back of an ancient "camp", nowadays Mount Shepherdess.
The church is a building in style of transition to the first Renaissance, with five side chapels and an only aisle of remarkably slender archs. By the initiative of Doña María de Ulloa, Señora of Cambados and mother of the 3rd Fonseca. At the end of the 15th century, the church crowned a first construction by her father, Don López Sánchez de Ulloa, in a site which was already the location of a romanic hermitage.
Roofless and abandoned about the middle of 19th century, the bare skeleton of its ruins, which were declared Historic-Artistic Monument in1943, nowadays shelters the peace of the silent cementery.
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