Spanish views from a small town

There is a tiny village just west of the city of Lugo called Santa Eulalia de Bóveda. We visited once just to see the Roman temple. We visited years ago, in mid-spring. I remember parking our car in a little plaza. We were the only ones there. A sign with visiting hours told us to ask for someone to open the temple. When they did and we entered, it was like finding a moldery corner of the underworld. You have to walk down to the door, so the temple is half buried. Time has grown around it. Inside, the bottom of the walls are green, testimony to our climate. There are worn columns that no longer support anything, and frescos on the upper walls. In the middle there is a low area that looks like it may have been a pool. At the back there's a recess where stairs originally led to an upper floor, now totally reconstructed as a church.  It dates from the third century C.E. and is unique in all the ancient provinces of the Roman Empire. For many years it was thought to have been a templ...