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PROVINCE OF PONTEVEDRA, AS RÍAS BAIXAS EXPERIENCE ITS MUSEUMS AND DISCOVER ITS CUISINE ROUTE 11 Tabeirós-Terra de Montes and Pontevedra PROVINCE OF PONTEVEDRA, AS RÍAS BAIXAS EXPERIENCE ITS MUSEUMS AND DISCOVER ITS CUISINE Blooming apple trees for organic cider production (A Estrada) Festa do Salmón (A Estrada) As Rías Baixas is synonymous with culture and good food. Every town in the province of Pontevedra A WORLD OF RICHNESS IN THE COUNTRYSIDE has something unique to o er to the visitors. Explore the di erent regions of Pontevedra through these 1 Festa do Petote de Carballedo 15 Festa do Salmón (A Estrada) twelve tours and discover its history, culture and gastronomy in its museums. In each itinerary, you will (Cerdedo-Cotobade) A festival of Tourist Interest in Galicia held in May which enjoy a great diversity of landscapes fi lled with stories, in which the natural beauty of its beaches, forests This food festival promotes the culture and tradition pays tribute to the salmon. It is prepared both in the or hills is combined with a rich heritage and with museums that unveil the secrets of this land. of the petote, which is part of the cocido and con- traditional way and as part of innovative recipes. Other sists of a boiled wheat and corn fl our bread roll that is entertainment and fun activities are also held. served cut into slices. 7 Festa da Richada e da Croca (Forcarei) NATURAL SPOTS This festival o ering traditional local meat stew takes 01 Wine and lamprey - A Paradanta 4 Oak grove of San Xusto (Cerdedo-Cotobade) place on the fi rst weekend in December. It can be tasted in the restaurants París, Victoria and in the bar It is a wood with centuries-old oaks, chestnut trees 02 A land of borders, water and history - O Condado Gran Sol. and leafy ferns, vines and mosses. A shrine devoted 12 to San Xusto, where a pilgrimage is held every Au- 10 11 03 The sacred in nature and the control of the land - O Baixo Miño 14 Feira da Sidra (A Estrada) gust, has been preserved. From there, you can ac- cess the thermal baths of San Xusto, with sulphur-fl u- 04 Pure Atlantic Ocean - O Baixo Miño and Vigo A festival that promotes the organic cider produced 09 in A Estrada and in other neighbouring cider-making oride waters. 05 Art and city - Vigo areas. This product can be tasted in the following ci- 10 O Candán Hill (Forcarei, Lalín and Silleda) 08 der houses: It is more than 1,000 metres high. It has large open- 06 A sea of stories - Vigo PROVINCE OF PONTEVEDRA, AS RÍAS BAIXAS Sidrería Ribela air areas and wide meadows, brushwood, and vast 07 07 Between sea and land - O Morrazo Trabadela, 12, Santa Mariña de Ribela, A Estrada oak groves. There is a signposted trail, and at the top EXPERIENCE ITS MUSEUMS AND DISCOVER ITS CUISINE there is a viewpoint with panoramic views of the town 06 P +34 655 112 386 08 An artistic treasure - Pontevedra of Silleda. 05 01 Sidrería Peroja Come and live new experiences through these twelve itineraries. 02 12 Trail of the bridges of the Lérez River (Forcarei) 04 09 Of sea and wine - O Salnés Lugar Outeiro, 11, 36685 Agar, A Estrada Embark on a journey to the essence of the province of Pontevedra: This 15-kilometre trail follows the course of the Lérez its history, culture, landscape and gastronomy. 10 Among rivers and hot springs - Caldas P +34 986 588 131 +34 669 880 542 River, and boasts no less than 40 bridges and a group of 12 abandoned mills. The most remarkable bridges 03 Sidrería Camino https://turismoriasbaixas.com/en/hambre-de-experiencias 11 A world of richness in the countryside - Tabeirós-Terra de Montes and Pontevedra are A Ponte Vella de Andón, A Ponte do Crego, A Lugar de Moreira, s/n, 36688 A Estrada Carballa, Maril and Gomail. More information 12 Inland - Deza Rapa das Bestas de Sabucedo P +34 629 585 711 (A Estrada) SICTED Quality Label: Spanish Integral System of Tourist Quality in Destinations 11_Tabeirós_Terra_de_Montes_Pontevedra_CAPO_MUNDO_RIQUEZAS - ENG_d_PRESS.indd 1-4 13/8/19 9:29 EXPERIENCE THE REGIONS OF Tabeirós-Terra de 8 Centro Etnográfi co de Terra de Montes 6 Rapa das Bestas de Sabucedo (A Estrada) TABEIRÓSTERRA DE MONTES ROUTE 11 (CETMO) The village of Sabucedo hosts one of the most peculiar traditions in Montes and Pontevedra This ethnographic centre, located in an old traditional Galicia, which shows the symbolic strength of the horse. This festival AND PONTEVEDRA house, reveals how rural life was in the region be- is celebrated in July and consists of bringing the herd of horses that 3 A WORLD OF RICHNESS tween the end of the 19th century and the 1970s: live- live wild at the Montouto Hill and grouping them in a big fence. There, A WORLD OF RICHNESS stock farming, agriculture and trades, housing, food, the aloitadores and aloitadoras overpower the beasts in order to cut IN THE COUNTRYSIDE IN THE COUNTRYSIDE childhood, traditional women’s or men’s tasks, and their manes. 1 the phenomenon of rural exodus and emigration. 9 Neveiras de Fixó (Forcarei) Visit the towns of Forcarei, Cerdedo-Cotobade and A Estra- 16 Temporarily closed for works. Casa da Gaita (Cerdedo-Cotobade) A CORUÑA Ice-storage walls located 800 metres above sea level, which date from da, and enjoy with your fi ve senses its vast valleys and hills the 17th century, and were linked to the monastery of Aciveiro. They where rivers, such as the Ulla, the Umia or the Lérez and 14 2 13 Museo do Pobo Estradense consist of two large-capacity waterholes to store ice that was used to their tributaries create fertile landscapes. The monastery 1 - Forcarei 13 15 O Cando Hill (Cerdedo-Cotobade, Forcarei and A Lama) Manuel Reimóndez-Portela preserve food. The house of the neveiro, the person responsible for of Aciveiro and its surrounding constructions, such as the LUGO 2 - Cerdedo-Cotobade neveiras (ice-storage walls) –used to preserve and store This museum, located in the former municipal the ice production, has been preserved. There is a trail from the nevei- the valued ice– overlook the region of Terra de Montes. 3 - A Estrada 12 slaughterhouse and dating from 1924, shows the ras to the village of Grovas. 11 The richness and rural diversity can be experienced at its 6 7 10 traditional life of the local people from A Estrada. It 11 Monastery of Santa María de Aciveiro (Forcarei) exhibits objects used in the old farming activities, museums. They provide information about the stonema- 5 9 Located near the source of the Lérez River, it was founded by a com- sons, muleteers and emigration. The work of the stonema- PONTEVEDRA traditional trades and everyday life. The replica of a munity of twelve monks in 1135, but soon they were more than 100. 4 th sons can be appreciated in the popular architecture (hórreos 3 8 classroom of an early 20 -century school and a dis- The church is a good example of the Galician Romanesque although of Pedre and Filgueira, bridge of Andón in Aciveiro, bridge OURENSE play of traditional toys show how childhood used to th 2 the original façade was rebuilt in the 18 century. One of the activities of Serrapio-Cerdedo, bridge of A Bouzada, in the village of 1 be in rural areas. Temporarily closed for works, you carried out by the monks was the trade of ice produced in the neveiras Soutelo de Montes, tower of Barciela, in Castrelo-Forcarei, Pazo de Oca (A Estrada) can visit the Museum at www.museo.aestrada.com (ice-storage walls) built in O Candán Hill. The association of the friends the churchs of Moreira and Codeseda, both in the town of A Rúa Matadoiro, 17, 36680 A Estrada Estrada, and the monastery of Aciveiro). of the monastery has a Facebook profi le including information about P +34 986 572 738 (cita previa) activities, guided tours, exhibitions... The natural spots on the banks of the Ulla River, the bridges W www.museo.aestrada.com and the mills scattered all along the Lérez River immerse us 16 Pazo de Oca (A Estrada) in leafy, humid and green riverside forests. Moreover, from Although the origin of this typical manor house dates back to the 13th the top of O Candán Hill, we can admire large fi elds and OTHER POINTS OF INTEREST century, most of the buildings that have been preserved are in the oak groves in the background. The magic of the woods Small village of Grovas (Forcarei) Baroque style and date from the 18th century. It has a large garden, accompanies us through abandoned villages, such as the 3 Eirado de Pedre (Cerdedo-Cotobade) MUSEUMS an orchard, a church devoted to Saint Anthony of Padua and several one of Grovas or the old village of Vichocuntín , Arufe and It is one of the most renowned groups of hórreos Godela, which have been silent witnesses of a bustling 2 Casa da Gaita houses for the day labourers. The proprietors of the pazo also owned (typical granary houses) in Galicia, called Eira Grande, the wood Fraga da Cerrada, the oak grove of Ouriles and the mead- past that has now disappeared because the locals had to It is a remarkable museum of traditional Galician mu- which consists of 12 hórreos arranged around a big leave the countryside in search of a better life. ows of Subatán and Badoucos. The pazo is popularly known as the Pazo de Oca (A Estrada) sic, in the village of Viascón, specialised in the bag- square near the Eira do Pallal, where peasants used Galician Versailles due to its beautiful gardens.