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Palace of o Faramello

Rois, Sar, A Coruña

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Palace of o Faramello

Monument · Rois, Sar, A Coruña

The pazo do Faramello stands above the canyon of the río Tinto, a tributary of the Sar, at the place of Faramello, in the municipality of Rois, beside the Portuguese Way and twelve kilometres from Padrón and Santiago. It is a Compostela civil Baroque building with Italian influences, betraying the Genoese origin of its founder, the Marquis of Piombino: it was built in the early 18th century from the Royal Paper Factory of Faramello, dating from 1710, a pioneer of the Galician paper industry. It preserves a balustrade, 19th-century French gardens and a chapel, that of las Neves, from 1727, with an altarpiece by the sculptor José Gambino, born there; its main block exceeds 2,100 square metres. It even hosted King Alfonso XIII and is today the most visited pazo in the district.

Photo: Iago Pillado (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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