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Souls' shrines of Cimadevila, Couto and Teimende

Parada de Sil, Terra de Caldelas, Ourense

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Souls' shrines of Cimadevila, Couto and Teimende

Curiosity · Parada de Sil, Terra de Caldelas, Ourense

Image of Parada de Sil, not of the place itself.

Three stone niches raised at the roadside to collect alms for the souls in purgatory, a popular devotion deeply rooted in the villages of the Sil canyon.

Photo: amaianos from Galicia (CC BY 2.0)

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