Emilia Pardo Bazán's Os Pazos de Ulloa Curiosity · Palas de Rei, Ulloa, Lugo Image of Palas de Rei, not of the place itself. The novel published in 1886 immortalised these lands and their decaying rural aristocracy; scholars place much of its setting in the Pazo de Ulloa at Palas de Rei and in the landscape of the comarca that gives it its name. Photo: José Antonio Gil Martínez from Vigo, Spain (CC BY 2.0) What to see and do in Palas de Rei