The order’s castles housed chapels, stores, officials and armed men. Archaeology reveals the farms and food supplies behind its territorial power.

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The church is Santa Eulalia de Esperante, known in Galician as Santalla de Esperante. It stands in a hamlet a few kilometres southwest of Lugo. Until now, historians saw a simple rural church from the high Middle Ages, with one nave, a square east end and a smooth 18th-century front topped by a bell gable […]