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The grandiose Monasterio de Oseira surrounded by the forests of the Valle de Arenteiro
i Monasterio inside are frescoes painted by de Lugo presents the city’s
de Oseira the nuns who lived here until history with high-tech exhibits
the 15th century. in a striking modern building.
Oseira, Ourense. Tel 988 28 20 04.
Open daily. & 8 compul sory. Tours The Cistercian Monasterio
start at 10am, 11am, noon, 3:30pm, Sobrado de los Monjes, to Environs
4:30pm & 5:30pm Mon–Sat; 12:45pm, the northwest, has a medieval The stone hamlet of Santa
3:30pm, 4:30pm & 5:30pm Sun. kitchen and chapterhouse, and Eulalia, to the west, conceals a
∑ mosteirodeoseira.org a church with unusual domes. curious building: a tiny temple,
with lively, bright frescoes of
This monastery stands in a birds and leaves. Though its
wooded valley near the hamlet p Lugo exact purpose is unknown, it is
of Oseira, named after the bears Lugo. * 98,000. £ @ n Praza do thought to be an early Christian
(osos) that once lived in this Campo 11, 982 25 16 58. ( Tue & Fri. church and has been dated at
area. It is a grey building with a _ San Froilán (4–12 Oct). ∑ lugo.gal around the 3rd century AD.
Baroque façade. On the door way
is a statue of the Virgin as nurse, Capital of Galicia’s largest E Museo Provincial
with St Bernard kneeling at her province, Lugo was also an Praza da Soidade. Tel 982 24 21 12.
feet. The interior of the 12th- to important centre under the Open Jul & Aug: Mon–Sat (am only
13th-century church is typically Romans. Attracted to the town Sat); Sep–Jun: daily (am only Sun).
Cistercian in its simplicity. by its thermal springs, they built 7 ∑ museolugo.org
what is now the finest surviving E Museo Interactivo da Historia
Roman wall in Spain. The wall, de Lugo
which encircles the city, is Parque da Milagrosa. Tel 982 25 16 58.
about 6 m (20 ft) thick and 10 m Open 11am–1:30pm & 5–7:30pm Tue–
(33 ft) high, with ten gateways. Sat, 5–8pm Sun. ∑ lugo.es/ws/mihl
Six of these give access to the
top of the wall, from where
there is a good view of the city. a O Cebreiro
Inside the wall, the Old Town Lugo. * 1,100. @ n 982 36 70 25.
is lively, with pretty squares. In _ Santa Maria Real (8 Sep), Santo
the Praza de Santo Domingo Milagro (9 Sep).
is a black statue of a Roman
eagle, built to commemorate In the hills in the east of Galicia,
Augustus’s capture of Lugo close to the border with León, is
Fresco of a dona in the monastery at from the Celts in the 1st one of the most unusual villages
Vilar de Donas century BC. The large, on the Road to Santiago. Its 9th-
Romanesque cathedral century church was supposedly
o Vilar de Donas is modelled on that of the scene of a miracle in 1300
Santiago. It features an when the wine was turned
Lugo. * 80. n Palas de Rei, Avenida
de Compostela 47, 982 38 07 40. elegant Baroque cloister, into blood and the bread into
Church: Open noon–6:30pm daily. and a chapel containing flesh. Nearby, there are several
8 _ San Antonio (13 Jun), San the alabaster statue of pallozas, round thatched
Salvador (6 Aug). Nuestra Señora de los stone huts of a Celtic
Ojos Grandes (Virgin design. Some have been
This hamlet on the Road to of the Big Eyes). The restored, and are now
Santiago (see pp86–7) has a Museo Provincial part of a folk museum.
small church, San Salvador, just exhibits local Celtic
off the main road. Inside are and Roman finds, E Museo Etnográfico
tombs of some of the Knights while the Museo Painted gourd in O Cebreiro. Tel 982 36
of the Order of Santi ago. Also Interactivo da Historia O Cebreiro’s museum 70 53. Open Tue–Sun.

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