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Parada dos Montes

A Pobra do Brollón, Terra de Lemos, Lugo

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Curiosity · A Pobra do Brollón, Terra de Lemos, Lugo

A Pobra do Brollón

Image of A Pobra do Brollón, not of the place itself.

Mountain hamlet and parish of the municipality of A Pobra do Brollón, made up of the settlements of Couso, Parada dos Montes and Río de Bois, with barely thirty inhabitants. Its houses have overlapping slate roofs, one course over another, a solution that allowed people to walk across them during heavy snowfalls and gave better shelter from the weather. It retains the 19th-century church of Santa Inés, with a neoclassical altarpiece from the Convent of the Poor Clares of Monforte de Lemos; its parish festival, held around 21 January in honour of the saint, went uncelebrated for 25 years and was revived in 2007. Tradition tells that the hamlet was moved to its present site after its people refused to help a lord in need.

Photo: Estevoaei (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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