Collegiate Church of San Pedro

San Pedro de Teverga has its origins in the primitive Romanesque style of the 11th century, although the exact date of its foundation is unknown. The church has a basilica floor plan divided into three naves covered with barrel vaults, a rectangular chevet divided into three chapels by two arches and a porch or narthex at the foot, where the bell tower was erected in the 18th century.

Inside, the porch is divided into three naves with two very wide and low central columns, and its vaults are supported by another four vaults on both sides, with rough cubic capitals in the central ones, and a square arch.

The decoration of these capitals is crude: bevelled vegetal themes, very flat men and animals and geometric themes. From an iconographic point of view, the ones in the naves are more interesting: human figures, quadrupeds with bear heads and tails, bearded men in a fighting stance, men with bear or dog heads, etc.

The body of the church is very high, the arches on pillars rest on large columns with capitals that are different from the late pre-Romanesque models.

The exterior decoration is very interesting: a chequered cornice and zoomorphic corbels appear for the first time as decoration specific to the Romanesque style.

Attached to the collegiate church are the abbey house and the cloister, completed in 1670, according to the inscription on a column. This church was restored in 1981 and 1990 by the Regional Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports, and in the sacristy of the church there is a museum in which the mummified corpses of the Marquis of Valdecarzana and his son Pedro de Miranda, the abbot of the Collegiate Church from 1690 to 1720, stand out.