Santa Mariña de Carracedo

This church is situated in the parish of Carracedo , at the foot of the legendary Portuguese Camino de Santiago. Since ancient times there were many pilgrims traveling on the road and saw this temple a place to rest and pray. The origins of the temple are uncertain although we are bases that could be linked to a Romanesque church pilgrims. Today we see a sober façade with a semicircular arch and a triangular forntón this that shelters the image of Santa Mariña .

A large baroque tower of two bodies adorns the left of the facade. Attached to the side walls lies the sacristy . In the big atrium we see a small rectory next to a stone cross that lacks the cross and in which we can see drawn on its base figure of the " soap opera " . Next to the church together we can see the ruins of what was once the great rectory that keeps the remains of a large barn belonging to the clergy.

San Miguel de Valga

Neoclassical building , built in 1750. It has rectangular nave , apse and lateral chapel. Its most prominent feature is the bell tower in the center of the main facade .

Pontecesures

Last municipality in the province of Pontevedra, before getting in A Coruña.

Can visit:

Chapel of San Xulián

Romanesque chapel built by Bishop Xelmírez , with a remodeling in 1918 in which Roman remains were found , which were cataloged by the Provincial Museum of Pontevedra.

the Bridge

Built in the first century, with later renovations (the most important designed by Maestro Mateo in the twelfth century). It consists of ten arches over the Ulla River and links the provinces of Pontevedra and A Coruña.

Padrón

First municipality in the province of A Coruña, having left behind the Pontevedra.

It is interesting to visit:

The "Pdrón" 

The Pedrón is a stone ensures that served to tie the stone boat which also moved to St. James died, from Palestine to the Galician coast.

That in fact the Pedrón be a Roman altar, not remove or subtract historical religious value to this granite block, which became a symbol for millions of pilgrims who arrive without interruption until Compostela and then descend even to this town since that "who will and will not Santiago Padron, or make the pilgrimage or not."

Others, on the contrary, make today called Route Maritime and emulating their ancestors landed here to continue way to the tomb of the Apostle.

The Roman altar has an inscription, altered centuries later (he was added a cross and changed his own name on it), which some translate as "The Neptune's catorienses put out of pocket".

The Pedrón is below the high altar of the church of Santiago, built right on the left bank of the river Sar almighty order of Archbishop Gelmírez in the year 1133 and, according to his time, in Romanesque style.

Of the temple only a stone, which stands next to the door to the "Ram" is preserved, and the granite block it is engraved inscription "Dominus Ecclesia Procurator edificavit in was MCLXXI" which would translate to the current Castilian by "Mr. attorney church was built in the MCLXXI".

The temple disappeared and modernized, now gothic style by Bishop Lope de Mendoza. It survived even these times a pulpit stone and nothing else, because the mid-nineteenth century was raised in the current place, with a symmetrical facade paradigmatic of the eclectic style.

Convento del Carmen

The traveler has before if the Costanilla del Carmen (or Costiña do Carme) that beautifully paved and unpaved nowhere, rises to the convent del Carmen.

That convent of Discalced Carmelites first and then the Dominicans, is a good example of Galician neoclassical, become spontaneous viewpoint over the town.

It is built on solid rock at the beginning of the century XVIII with the invaluable financial contribution of Alonso de la Peña and Montenegro, standards that became rector of Compostela University, and is attached to the Mount San Gregorio, one of whose slopes stands the chapel of Santiaguiño do Monte.

Convent of S. Antonio de Herbón

The convent of San Antonio is the Franciscan shows par excellence: these monks settled there and still there; a source representing one of them in prayer posture indicates that it was built in 1786, but the date should not be misleading: the religious were already in place in 1396.

Everything is sobriety, silence, prayer and work. Nothing dazzles alone, but the whole exudes an aura of mystery, of stillness, of enclosing the puzzle that explains that, despite all the vicissitudes, the enclosure has been, is and will remain a center in the whole region speaking with deep respect.

It is possible that all this contributes the fact that you are stuck in a ravine, and to reach it have to descend a steep and long ramp first and stairs later, to stop at the sober facade with its bell tower .

Inside the temple, the profuse ornamentation of the altar does not help to continue that feeling of sobriety. They do not claim anything, but in history know that they were the Franciscans, who brought America the plant of the famous peppers.

Business hours in goal are nine to one, and 4:30 to 8:30.

Church of Santiago

The church of Santiago de Padrón, austere neoclassicism, keeps testimonies of the foregoing, an inscription of times Gelmírez, patron of the Romanesque church and a Gothic pulpit with the image of Santiago Peregrino temples belonging to the fifteenth century church who built the archbishop Lope de Mendoza.

These medieval temples, overcome by the passage of time, and kept in his presbytery the Jacobean part of the town: the Pedrón interpreted as Roman altar dedicated to Neptune and in which, according to tradition, the boat was moored de Pedra he had transported the body of the Apostle and his two disciples Teodoro and Atanasio.

In the High Middle Ages it was used as a basis Pedrón ara altar of the early church dedicated to St. James, built by Bishop Teodomiro in the ninth century.

Roman bridge

If the traveler from the south, in the province of Pontevedra, would have to save the width Ulla by a bridge whose foundations were Roman, although today successive reforms mutilate the work and is difficult to recognize the footprint of the Latin Empire.

Puente Santiago

Once the visitor rested on the protected banks from the sun by trees Ram, it is best to cross the bridge of Santiago whose date is 1852, which replaced one that was destroyed by a flood of the river. This bridge links the area called "A trabanca" with the old town of Padrón.

Cross the bridge, a mandatory visit is to visit the source of the Carmen and the convent. Also on the same street, we can climb the stairs that lead us to "Santiaguiño".

Fuente del Carmen

It was rebuilt when it ended the eighteenth century, where a clear registration abroad informs the newcomer that this source was rebuilt reigning Don Carlos IIII being mayor Joaquin Foxi Bendaña in the year 1789, while the interior is noted that the illustrious Don Manuel de Sanlúcar, bishop of Sidonia, granted 40 days indulgence the all devoutly pray a salve in front of the image.

Quito Bishop's Palace

Very close to the Plaza de Macías is the town hall, built in the eighteenth century and boasts granite shield of the town and a short distance, also is the palace of the Bishop of Quito, which was owned by Alonso de la Pena and Montenegro, who played the dignity of bishop and was, in Peru, commander in chief of Quito; in that American country he died in 1688. In the palace, asoportalado, where to send the semicircular arch, highlighting the two shields facing the Calle de los Dolores, one of them with the date 1669.