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Chestnut tree of the Chapel of Baamonde

Begonte, Terra Chá, Lugo

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Chestnut tree of the Chapel of Baamonde

Nature · Begonte, Terra Chá, Lugo

Image of Begonte, not of the place itself.

A chestnut tree almost thirteen metres tall and 6.60 metres in girth whose hollow trunk the sculptor Víctor Corral cleared out and carved in 1971 to save it from the widening of the road; inside it shelters a chapel dedicated to the Virgin of the Rosary.

Photo: José Antonio Gil Martínez (CC BY 2.0)

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