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It was built at the end of the 12th century and the beginning of the 13th century. It can be attributed to Maestro Rodrigo according to an inscription dated around 1185, although another from 1223 is also preserved. The church underwent several modifications throughout history.

The church of Santiago de Bembrive is one of the three Romanesque churches in Vigo, the other two being the church of Santa María de Castrelos and the church of San Salvador de Corujo. It was built at the end of the 12th and beginning of the 13th century. It consists of a single nave and apse, semicircular on the inside and pentagonal on the outside. The nave is divided into sections with two transverse arches supported by half-columns. The triumphal arch is pointed like the secondary arch and both are supported by semi-columns. The presbytery is covered with a barrel vault while the polygon in which the apse ends is covered with a shell vault.

Its construction dates back to the 12th century and was carried out in three stages. From the first pre-Romanesque stage, the three naves are still preserved, which are divided by pillars that support semicircular arches. The apses were built in a second Romanesque phase and the main façade was remodeled in the third phase.

It dates back to a primitive hermitage, mentioned by Gaspar Frutuoso, especially when describing the events that took place during the incursion of French corsairs in 1576. Although the precise date of its construction is unknown, its facade faced west, and this temple did not have any tower. It was only surrounded by a main wall that bordered a grassy churchyard. It constituted the end of the outskirts of the original village.

This church, which despite not being a parish, was built due to the distance that the population found it from its parish headquarters, its construction began in 1965. The inauguration of the temple took place in 1970.

The current church of Santo António de Nordestinho, in the parish of Santo António de Nordestinho, was built to replace a hermitage, with the same invocation. Regarding this ancient hermitage, several documents are known. They all tell us about how small it was for the population it served, about the distance that the place of Santo António was from the parish headquarters in São Pedro and the difficulty that the inhabitants had in coming to hear mass at their respective parish.

The hermitage was once a parish church, under the invocation of Our Lady of Purification. With the construction of the current Church of Santo Espírito, according to information from Father Frutuoso at the end of the 16th century, "(...) This was the first parish, which belonged to the Purification of Our Lady and, when the church moved , they cast lots as to which saint would remain, and Saint Anthony came out.

The church of Santo António was founded in 1606. It was donated to the Capuchins. Their monastery was destroyed in the 17th century except for the church and the cloister. In 1856 the church passed into the hands of the Friars of Saint Anthony.

Church of Santo Condestável is a neo-Gothic temple, inaugurated in 1951 in honour of Nuno Álvares Pereira, St Condestavel. The relics of the saint are preserved in this church.

The church of Santo Spirito in Sassia was founded in the 8th century. Seriously damaged during the sack of Rome (1527), the church was rebuilt between 1538 and 1545, but the façade dates back to 1590, while the decoration of the apse was carried out from 1593 by Jacopo Zucchi. A new high altar was inaugurated in 1668 by Francesco Maria Febei.