Terras do Miño: Patrimonio histórico

Ferreira de Pallares´s Monastery dominates one of the most beautiful rural areas in Lugo. The sanctuary is located in council of Guntín and this formed by the Romanesque church, claustro and the environs like the rectoral house or the same source with an anthropomorphous tomb. This set is basically Romanesque, even though it has some Gothic and neoclassic elements in the tower. In his origins it was Abbey but in century XVI it is gotten up to the Monastery of Samos, having happened to be Priorato. The monastery had its own old blacksmith factory in river Ferreira, in activity after the spanish confiscation of religious buildings. But late it was mallet and later mill. The rectoral house is in the Monastery, that all the day is open.

Buried for more than 1,000 years, Santa Eulalia de Boveda is one of the historical mystery of Lugo. Built possibly between centuries III and IV, lodge in its interior a more important painting set murals of the Roman Hispania. To enter and to contemplate its Wall paintings will transfer us to the mystery of its origin.

To 23 km to the northeast of Lugo, in the council of Castro de Rei is located a key site to know the evolution of the world of the celtic village in the galaico-Roman stage. The Castro de Viladonga is a magnificent archaeological deposit with several walls, pits and the great Acropolis where they are most of the celtic house. The numerous found rest are exposed in a Museum on the foot of the deposit, worthy to visit so much by the great quality of the pieces as by the archaeological importance of this castro.

MUSEO ARQUEOLÓGICO DO CASTRO DE VILADONGA

Viladonga
Castro de Rey. 27259 LUGO
Abierto todos los días. Tel:(034) 982 314 255
fax:(034) 982 314 194
E-mail:museo@aaviladonga.es
www.aaviladonga.es

Features: free access.
Opening hours: 1st SEP-30th JUN(Mon-Sat: 10:30-14:00 and 16:30-20:30 h (Sat. only until 20:00 h.).Sun: 11:00-14:00 h. Holidays closed. 1st JUL-30th AUG. (Mon-Fri: 11:00-14:00 and 17:00-20:00 h. Sat: 10:00-14:00 h. Sun. and holidays closed.

Features: free access. Opening hours: 1st OCT-31t MAR(Tue-Fri: 11:00-14:00 and 16:00-18:00h. Sat., Sun. and holidays: 12:00-14:00 and 16:00 to 18:00h. Mon. closed.) 1st APR-30th SEP(Tue-Fri: 11:00-14:00 and 17:00 to 20:00h. Sat., Sun. and holidays: 12:00 to 14:00 and 17:00 to 20:00h. Mon. closed.)

Lugo's Provincial Museum is a perfect bond between past and present. It occupies the cloister, the refectory and kitchen of the old Convent of St Francis completed with newly-built sections .
The Museum has a very important heritage of the Roman and pre-Roman times and outstanding collections of painting, sculpture, numismatics, heraldry, craftsmanship, furniture, pottery, sacred art, clocks... The carving of St Francis by Asorey; the picture La Escuela de Doloriñas by Julia Minguillón; Sargadelos pottery; the pre-Roman torques from Burela and Viladonga; the winged sheep in the oriental style and the Christogram of Quiroga are many other jewels of the great Lugo's Provincial Museum.

A Museum and Fortress located in the 16th-18th-century fortress of San Paio de Narla or de Xía, fortified home of the Vasco de Seixas family. After its restoration, it became a section of the Lugo Provincial Museum devoted to ethnography. It houses a major collection exhibiting pieces related with habits and customs of Galician villages and towns from the 18th to the 20th centuries. It has also restored numerous weapons and utensils from the medieval wars

Lugo's Cathedral has the privilege of the continuous exhibition of the Holy Sacrament. The Cathedral was started to be built in 1129 and the upper part dates from the 15th century, the cloister from the 18th and the main façade from the 18th with towers of the second half of the 19th. In this façade, we can see stone images of St Froilán - the patron saint of the city- and St Cápito. We should also mention the North Gate from the 16th century. It has original arches at the entrance and Gothic frame for the Romanesque door with the image of Christ and the book of the seven seals. On the bottom the last supper is represented and there is an inscription that says: The disciple of Lord makes his members have a rest and when he lies down there are heavenly delights for supper. Before going inside, we see the head and apse with original flying buttresses and the Old Tower, also called the Clock Tower.

The rest of the Spas partially are places setting by the building of the Bath Hotel of Lugo, located in the left border of the Rio Miño to their passage by Lugo. The Spas of Lugo have natural hot water and have a 43.8 temperature of ºC in the source. These waters are medicinal of sulfurated-so'dicas type and bicarbonated. The Bath of Lugo was declared Artistic Historical Monument in 1931. The Bath Hotel is open all the year with the exception of the celebrations of Christmas and the rest of the Spas can be visited simply contacting with the reception of the Hotel for individual visits or contacting with the Direction for collective visits.

The Sala-Museo Portamiña is a building constructed at the beginning of century -the old Municipal Slaughter house - and its structure meticulously has been respected. Inner space is divided in three separated ships by two rows of arcs of average point; the large windows drilled in the ceiling of the central ship call the attention, that offers a very cosy zenithal illumination.
At the east present time building is dedicated to archaeological exhibitions of the Roman Lugo.