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Castle of Pambre

Palas de Rei, Ulloa, Lugo

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Castle of Pambre

Monument · Palas de Rei, Ulloa, Lugo

Pambre castle stands at 44 m above sea level, on a rocky outcrop next to the Pambre river, in the parish of the same name, in Palas de Rei. Built around 1375 by Gonzalo Ozores de Ulloa, with a walled enclosure, four square towers at the corners and a central three-storey, eleven-metre keep, it withstood the irmandiña revolts of 1467 and is one of the few Galician medieval fortresses left standing after that uprising, the best-preserved castle in Lugo. It preserves a Romanesque chapel predating the castle, a parish church for centuries under the patronage of Saint Peter. Declared a monument in 1949, it takes its name from the novel O Castelo de Pambre, by Antonio López Ferreiro (1895); it was previously known as Fortaleza or Torre de Pambre, a name still common in the Ulloa.

Photo: amaianos from Galicia (CC BY 2.0)

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