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What to see and do in Vilar de Barrio

What to see and do in Vilar de Barrio (Limia, Ourense): 5 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 1 Monuments · 1 Nature · 2 Activities

When to go to Vilar de Barrio: festival calendar

October: The Potato Gastronomic Festival (October)

How far each place is from the centre of Vilar de Barrio

Marquis of Bóveda's House 1.9 km

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What to see and do in Vilar de Barrio

Vilar de Barrio
Village
Vilar de Barrio is an Ourense concello of around 1,180 inhabitants, at an altitude of 660 metres in the comarca of La Limia, organised into nine parishes that bring together twenty-three population centres. It preserves castros at Bóveda and Padreda, remains of funerary slabs, a bridge over the river Arnoia at Arnuíde and a stretch of the Roman road that ran from Chaves to Verín; a branch of the Vía de la Plata section of the Way of Saint James also passes through the west of the municipality. In the parish of Bóveda stands the 18th-century house of the Marquis of Bóveda, and in Padreda the Casa dos Gaiosos, from the same period. In October it holds a gastronomic festival dedicated to the potato, and in August that of San Fiz.
Marquis of Bóveda's House
Monument
An 18th-century manorial residence raised at Padreda, one of the municipality's nine parishes; in neighbouring Bóveda another noble house of the same century survives, the Casa dos Gaiosos, both of them witnesses to the rural gentry of A Limia.
Antela drainage canal
Nature
The channel that emptied the lagoon starts in this municipality and runs twenty-six kilometres to Ponte Liñares, following the line the Romans laid out in the 2nd century under Hadrian and which the Academy of Agriculture took up again in 1765.
Festival of a Pataca de Vilar de Barrio
Activity
It is held every October to celebrate the crop that sustains the municipality's economy, with tastings and traditional dishes made from the tuber in a comarca where the potato took over the land won from the old lagoon.
The Potato Gastronomic Festival
Activity
Each October the concello devotes its great festival to the newly lifted potato, cooked as cachelos, in stews and in omelettes. It is held at more than six hundred metres of altitude, in the transition between A Limia and the Serra de San Mamede.