The arrival of the railway at San Clodio Historical milestone · Ribas de Sil, Quiroga, Lugo Image of Ribas de Sil, not of the place itself. The arrival of the railway, in 1883, the same year the iron bridge over the Sil was built, brought the concello out of its isolation and opened a period of growth that would culminate in the iron mining of the 1950s. 1883 Photo: Estevoaei (CC BY-SA 4.0) What to see and do in Ribas de Sil