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Donas waterfall
Donas
A spectacular cascade where the steep terrain makes the River Pontillón fall in three waterfalls, the highest in…
38 places to discover: nature, churches, wayside crosses, bridges, manor houses and hill forts
Donas
A spectacular cascade where the steep terrain makes the River Pontillón fall in three waterfalls, the highest in…
Gastrar
At the entrance to the parish coming from O Forte, this oak wood has benches, barbecues and a…
Ledesma
At the foot of the bridge over the Ulla, four islands linked by footbridges offer a leisure area…
A Granxa
Pico Sacro lies in the municipality of Boqueixón, between the parishes of Lestedo and A Granxa. At 530…
Codeso
In the parish of Codeso, the area around the chapel has waterfalls, restored mills and a spring. A…
Sucira
In the south of the municipality, on the right bank of the Ulla, this area has an oak…
Vigo
Vigo waterfall, which powered the first electricity generator in Boqueixón In Rubio, the River Záramo forms a beautiful…
Sergude
The first documentary references to this church, from 1632, already describe it as ruined. It was therefore rebuilt…
A Granxa
Today this single-nave church with a rectangular plan reflects several building phases. The first is Romanesque (11th–12th centuries),…
Pousada
This single-nave church shows a mix of styles: the exterior keeps Baroque features, while the interior follows historicist…
Donas
Described in 1748 as ruined, it was then rebuilt. Despite the alterations, the walls of the old Baroque…
Loureda
Built with a rectangular nave in the 16th century and remodelled in the late 19th and early 20th…
Boqueixón
It stands in A Eirexe. The parish church was entirely rebuilt in the 18th century. In 1728 the…
Vigo
It keeps traces of a building older than the present one, which dates from the mid-18th century. The…
Codeso
In 1881–1882, because the original church was in ruins, a new one was built following the historicist style…
Lamas
Begun in the 18th century, it is a fine example of Galician Baroque. Its architects and master builders…
Lestedo
The old parish church stood in Rubial. It was a small Romanesque building whose condition and need for…
Oural
This single-nave church is a clear example of 19th-century historicist architecture, its façade looking back to the art…
Gastrar
The first documented references to this single-nave church date from the first half of the 18th century. After…
Sucira
The church was built at the end of the 17th century, in the Baroque period; because of its…
Ledesma
This single-nave church was altered many times in the 19th century, but keeps the walls from the major…
Lestedo
Construction of this chapel on the fairground began in 1883, making it easier to attend religious services on…
Pousada
In the churchyard of the chapel of Our Lady there is a spring whose water is said to…
Sergude
Built in the second half of the 19th century, this chapel stands in a beautiful oak wood next…
Oural
Next to the old rectory, overlooking the River Ulla and on top of an ancient hill fort, stands…
A Granxa
A beautiful single-nave chapel on the slope of the legendary Pico Sacro, very close to the summit. From…
Lestedo
Square platform and cubic pedestal topped with a torus moulding. Round, knotted, tree-trunk-style cross resting on an octagonal…
Lamas
Dating from the 19th century, it has a square platform and a cubic pedestal with finials, a round…
Boqueixón
Made of granite, its square pedestal bears an inscription with the date it was made, 1647. Octagonal shaft…
Sergude
In Rodiño Grande, on the San Bieito festival ground, stands this granite wayside cross with a square platform…
Lestedo
It stands on private land. A truncated-cone rubble platform with a round pedestal and shaft. Square capital with…
Sergude
A Roman bridge at Gándara linking the municipalities of Boqueixón and Vedra. It has two arches, one round…
Ledesma
Its design and construction suggest it dates from the 16th or 17th century. Until the last century a…
Donas
Formerly home to the Benedictine nuns, it has been renovated and is now part of a large farm.…
Sergude
Pazo de Quián, now home to the Galician Agricultural Training and Research Centre Once the residence of the…
Lestedo
Ramil waterfall The River Pontillón forms this waterfall as it passes the village of Ramil, in the middle…
Gastrar
An Iron Age fortified settlement with burial mounds (mámoas) nearby. Recently restored, with a thorough clearing of the…
Lestedo
It stands at the foot of Pico Sacro, in the village of Cachosenande, a few metres from the…
