Origins Route

Follow the channel of a river to his birth is always an exciting experience. You can travel along this route, to rummage in the past or transported in the future according imagine the water currents of the two rivers that make us company. And father and the Miño. Both born in the same flank albeit in opposite slopes of the Sierra de Meira.


Places to visit:

San Tirso de Abres: Beautiful valley that runs by the river Eo. Visit an interesting seventeenth-century chapel or a fabulous shop where tourists can catch their own trout.

  A Pontenova: Important industrial place that was the center of mining and steel from the coast of Lugo in the early twentieth century. The blast furnace, turned into museums can be visited as well as other ethnographic complex nearby.

Meira: Is the head of the county that bears his name: Terras de Meira. In the eleventh century, the Cistercian monks founded the monastery of Santa Maria that walking time would be the first school of philosophy in Spain. We can not perdernos the Romanesque church of the twelfth century, and the neoclassical facade of the City.

Pedregal de Irimia: Authentic birth of Miño (recommended)

FONMIÑÁ: Leaving Meira for Galicia is a crossing, taking the road of Mondoñedo a few meters from the crossing we arrived at Fonmiñá.

Viladonga: Is the site of a pre-Roman fortress fully recovered.
Has an important archaeological museum and Ethnology.

LUGO: Head of the province is one of the oldest cities in Spain. Everything about her is beautiful, ancient and magical. Essential to visit the Roman Wall, the Roman Baths, the Cathedral of the twelfth century, the Regional Museum and a stroll through the old town.