Village
A Teixeira is a concello of barely 330 inhabitants in the comarca of Tierra de Caldelas (Ourense), one of the least populated in the province and one of the four Galician municipalities with fewer than 500 inhabitants, as well as one of the oldest, with an average age of over 60. Located on the left bank of the Sil, it forms part of the Ribeira Sacra and overlooks the river's canyons, with an excellent view just one kilometre from the town, amid green meadows and mountains where the chestnut predominates. Agriculture sustains its economy, with vineyards as the main crop; in recent years several wineries protected by the Ribeira Sacra denomination of origin have sprung up on its hillsides.
Monument
The parish church of a parish spread across five places, A Boga, A Chaira, Cofra, Nogueira and O Pombar, which barely adds up to seventy households and which illustrates the demographic emptying of the Ourense mountains.
Monument
The parish church of one of the eight parishes of the concello, set on the left bank of the Sil, in a landscape of terraced vineyards and chestnut groves overlooking the canyon.
Monument
The parish church of Montoedo, one of the eight parishes into which the 27.64 square kilometres of A Teixeira are divided, the smallest concello by area in the whole comarca of Terra de Caldelas.
Monument
The church of the parish of Lumeares, in a concello whose capital sits at 593 metres above sea level and whose thirty-five population centres are scattered across the slopes falling towards the Sil.
Monument
The parish church of Pedrafita, one of the parishes in the north of the province of Ourense that form part of the Mancomunidade Intermunicipal da Ribeira Sacra, right on the edge of the canyon of the Sil.
Nature
A little over a kilometre from the municipal capital opens one of the finest panoramas of the Sil canyons, with the river wedged hundreds of metres below between walls of rock and schist and the vines hanging from the sunny slopes.
Nature
The chestnut is the dominant species of the concello and covers much of its slopes and meadows, sustaining a traditional harvest of chestnuts and timber that still organises the landscape in autumn.
Nature
The concello occupies in its entirety the left bank of the Sil in the north of the province of Ourense, a front of steep slopes where the vineyards tumble down towards the river in small terraces.
Activity
The concello brings together several wineries covered by the Ribeira Sacra denomination of origin, which produce above all mencía and godello on the stone terraces that fall steeply towards the river Sil.
Monument
A crossing over the Sil beside the parish of Abeleda that connects this Ourense bank with the Lugo shore; it gives its name to one of the most photographed spots of the upper stretch of the canyon.
Curiosity
A hamlet of stone houses and terraced vineyard overlooking the Sil, in a parish that barely gathers seventy households spread over five places and which Galician television portrayed as one of the great places of the country.
Nature
The chestnut is the dominant tree of the concello and forms centuries-old soutos among meadows and hills; its fruit sustained the diet of these hamlets for centuries before the vineyard won the slopes.
Food and drink
The hamlets preserve sequeiros, small stone buildings where the chestnut was dried over a slow fire for weeks so that it could be kept all winter and afterwards milled as flour.
Food and drink
The agriculture of the concello turns on the vine: in recent years wineries have appeared under the Ribeira Sacra designation of origin which work terraces held up by slate walls above the Sil.
Curiosity
With 316 inhabitants on the register in 2019 it is one of the four Galician concellos that do not reach five hundred households, and also one of the most aged, with an average age of over sixty years.
Activity
Held on the third weekend of November, it is the only festival in the Ribeira Sacra devoted exclusively to the youngest wine of the year, barely two months after the harvest, with a communal dinner of meat or caldeiro, empanada, octopus and bica.