The chapel of the house is of 1760, facade, ceiling, choir, pulpit and statuary, with ornate and chiseled, Rococo (Sec. XVIII), with beautiful paintings of the order of Carmo on the ceiling; the facade, decorated with 4 liz flowers and the scallod edges or shell of Santiago's roads, decorated cross, bell tower, worn from calling shepherds and lost animals, alive with traditions, legends, faiths and visions of lights, wailings, omens, noises.

  Knock on the great door, and it will be opened by Father Fontes, the monk of the house, with whom you can live and enter into the large stone fireplace to relax, meditate, pray, or converse.

The patio, where there were manifestations of spirits and animals, it was enlarged in the traditional style of old stone, panoramic, a lot of light, with a great fireplace barrosã style, whose heat attracts, and brings people together. With a video projector at night, I sing of the regional press, piano (sec XlX) in this dazzling room of visits, meetings, conventions, parties, Congresses.

The library old elementary school gives access to the choir of the chapel, from where one sees the painted and most artistic jewels of the area, with the symbol of Carmo. It contains about two thousand books and thematic magazines of the galaico transmontana culture, Portuguese, documental base of popular medicine, where the user has access to the largest wealth and cultural originality, etonografy, anthropology. The guest still has access to the internet here. The enormous corridors and panoramic balconies in glass, are places of varied exhibits on the traditions and culture galaico transmontana.

In the enclosed, annex there is parking for automobiles. The old field, was transformed into a restaurant and garden, full of medicinal plants; where the poor could reap herb, it is today a green garden, medicinal vegetable garden. with a natural water spring, always running. Dazzling views that are cherished, green the whole year round, rural world that this house comes to revitalize, with its’ easy dialogue, direct, with a visitor, that takes contact, immediate, directo, very close and alive, with people and homelike animals and actividades agriculture livestocks from this interior and external space, accompanying, interrogating, learning, savoring. You are waken with the ringing of the cow bells, that pass by in the morning and at the end of the day, followed by children or old shepherds, with the barrosão dialect of men and women with gadanha on their backs to reap the grass in the Real, the best agricultural area where each neighbor takes care his/her field and green vegetable garden.

  Hiking, cycling, mountaineering, pedestrian courses, the road of the animals, of the nine eólicas, of the smuggling, of the Galician villages, neighbors, of the couto misto and Randim, of the altar of the Moor, road of the mills, of the rivers, riversides and creeks. Within the Pedreira's river their’s support mill, a future fluvial beach. Abundant hunting, fishing, beekeeping, mushroom picking, defoliating, you sing to the challenge, parties, retreats, reunions, study of medicinal plants each day and weekend in the green area of the house, guided by Fatner Fontes, game of the mesh, and as much as that the visitor wants and proposes. Distances: Parasailing at 10 Km, veils, and motonáutica to 4, motoring track ao 6 km, equine center to 7 km, bull fights 5 km, soccer at 4 km, fishing at 500m, taxi and mail delivery, hunting just outside the front door in the Autumn and Winter, participation in agricultural work yea roundr, disco, restaurants, drugstore, hospital, public services, market and fairs to 4 Km, national park of Gerês to 4 Km, Chaves at 38 km, Braga at 77 km, Ourense at 60 km.

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