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Cruceiros

Cruceiro de Bandourrío	Riveira
It is at Bandourrío neighbourhood, germ and old town of Santa Eugenia Riveira. This recently built cruceiro shows a natural crucifixion, only adorned with a baroquish capital, in which there are intertwined scrolls, vegetable motives and a little angel´s face on each side.
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Cruceiro do Cristo dos Aflixidos	Carreira
Placed at Montevixán, in the urbanized heart of Carreira. This cruceiro on an octogon column is one of the newest cruceiros in the borough. It belongs to the most perfectionist school when it comes to anatomy. It loses the charm of handmade figures but it is made up for the strong expressiveness of the composition.
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Cruceiro do Castelo	Riveira
Placed at O Castelo neighbourhood, right in the city centre of Santa Eugenia Riveira, is one of the most emblematic monuments of this sort in the town. It was to honour Virxe da Saúde (Health Virgin) back in 1867. It consists of a cross on a case and a octogon column; its short height gives it a rough look but undoubtedly beautiful for its style and image.
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Cruceiro de Frións	Frións
Placed at Frións quarter, beside San Paio Carreira´s church, it is comprised by the new school committed to anatomic perfectionism and dramatic charge, like the example of cruceiro of Carreira. It shows two fronts, the same as O Pombal monument, although the Christ representation is more important. It is composed of a stepped octogon base, an hexagon column and a capital formed by angel faces and by scrolls holding the cross.
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Cruceiro de Marcos

Palmeira

It is found in the Palmeira town centre, near the quay, 100 m. down from the church. Cylindrical-based on grassy stand, a column rises imitating a lopped tree trunk. This original pillar holds a Corinthian-inspired capital that combines human and vegetable figures as decoration. On the top, crucifixion is represented in its purest style.

Cruzceiro de Nosa Señora de Belén or "Santa de Moldes"	Oleiros
Placed at Moldes, by the road leading to A Curota or A Pobra. This cross with a case and an image inside stands out by its simplicity in dealing with the theme: a Virgin representation showing her double facet as Mother and Queen; and also the Christ child on her lap, protected, protector and savior of the world. Through polychromy, the joint reaches great face expresiveness; curved features and huge eyes give the figures a sweet gesture, far away from hieratical look. This piece may be appointed to a more popular and hand-crafted origin. That is why it is the centre of one of the most important and crowded romerias in the borough.
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Cruceiro do Viso	Olveira
It is placed on a small hillside, in a clearing rounded by trees right in the middle of the countryside, parish Olveira. It consists of a cross on a octogon pillar and a stepped base. The joint is similar to the one honouring Virxe da Saúde -Virgin of Health- in O Castelo, Santa Eugenia; and despite its short height, its placement heightens the monument.
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Cruceiro do Outeiro

Artes

Placed at Outeiro, Artes parish, and nearly attached to the church and graveyard, it shows a cross on a capital and a very willowy hexagon column. It is also characterized by double front, the same as Frions cruceiro, beside San Paio Carreira´s church´s courtyard.

Cruceiro do Pombal	Riveira
Located at O Pombal neighbourhood, in Santa Eugenia old town, uphill Praza de Teruel. It is one of the most beautiful in the borough: polychrome, it goes from a stepped pyramidal base, a willowy octogon column, a mixed-styled capital to a double-front cross. It represents a usual theme -crucifixion and a virgin. In one side, Socorro Virgin is holding the Christ child in her lap, while another kid is pulling her clothes down; on the other side, her right hand is grasping a wooden cudgel. The story tells the Virgin attacked the Devil himself with that stick for saving the kid´s soul begging for her help.
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Cruceiro dos Remedios	Riveira
Placed at Deán Pequeno neighbourhood, in Santa Eugenia, it is one of the most meaningful of the borough, for its age and image - stonemason left record of his authorship with the legend "Isolo Andrés Gomes Fdo 1646". It is composed of a case that holds in its inside the image of the Virgin holding Christ child in her arms, and another image of a grown-up Christ crowning this polychrome monument held on an octogon no base pillar.
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Cruceiro de Santa Clara	Riveira
It´s found at Deán Grande neighbourhood, in Santa Eugenia. Similar to the one from Deán Pequeno in its making, it cannot be asserted they are equally old. It consists of a cross over a case and a octogon pillar. The most exceptional thing is to see the decorating motives used to adorn the stone inside the case.
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