Cespón-Castros de Neixón

Cespón

Cespón is a parish located in the municipality of Boiro.

Campo de San Roque

The three crosses are the end of a Via Crucis that began in Abanqueiro.

San Roque

In front of the chapel the priest does the mass. The granary is a wood construction raised on pillars that is intended to store the grain so that it is isolated from moisture; It is characteristic of the northwest of Spain, especially Asturias and Galicia. The unitary school stopped working when the Cespón school was built.

A Arrivada

In this image we can appreciate many chestnuts. Chestnut trees are typical of northern Spain.

A Arrivada

The water mill is a construction dedicated since Antiquity to the use of the natural motive power of the water of rivers, tides, etc. It was used to grind the grain or cereal.

Casa rural

The wheels of the mill crushed the grain. This is the main entrance of the rural house.

Casa rural

The waters of this river were used to run the mill.

Vidres

When we were doing the route we could see the fox cave. In the second image you can see an estuary where the Brea river and the Beluso river join.

Vidres

In the first image we can see an abandoned boat that the sailors used to go to the wooden platforms for mussels breeding. The pier was used by sailors to moor the ships and climb them.

Neixón

In this place the Castros de Neixón are located. Antonio´s cross was built in memory of a man who was killed in this place. A castro is a fortified Celtic town, typical of the late Bronze Age and the Iron Age.

Neixón

Strategic site.

Neixón

Metal sinking furnaces. They are kilns where the ore was heated and then transferred to a mold and make the pieces.

Neixón

Place where a religious pilgrimage is celebrated in the month of August.

Neixón

Bronze age pieces are kept in the archaeological museum.

Neixón

Oak is very typical in Galicia.

Os Lobrigos

The vines are the plants of the grapes. In September the harvest is celebrated.

Quinteiro

On this beach there is an area where protected species are conserved for example the reeds.

Quinteiro

The pazo is a type of traditional Galician manor house, with a stately character, normally located in the countryside, once the residence of important people of the community (before, of kings or nobles). They were of crucial importance in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, related to rural and monastic architecture and to the system of feudal organization, since they constituted a kind of local management unit around which the life of the villagers passed. A dovecote is a popular construction for the breeding of pigeons and pigeons so that they are then eaten. The materials with which it is built vary according to the countries and regions, since they change according to what is available in each area, as well as its structure.

Quinteiro

The laundry was used to wash clothes when there were still no washing machines. Today, there are still people who continue to use it.

As Quintáns

Pazos-Deira

Formerly women used the laundry to wash their clothes.

Cespón

In the social center the neighbors of the parish meet to carry out different activities.