Turismo Miño

Delve into Miño's past

Delve into Miño’s historical past and relive its history.

Church of San Xoán de Vilanova

A copy of the Galician countryside from the 11th century (1040) and one of the oldest Romanesque works in Galicia. In its rectangular plan it develops a single nave topped off in a semicircular apse. The interior is very sober and its walls have irregular stonework. Highlights the baptismal font, of Romanesque characteristics. The exterior concentrates the decoration on the main façade, which was remodeled in the 18th century according to Baroque canons.

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Boucelo Windmill

It dates back to 1840. It is heir to those who appeared in Persia in the S. VII and arrived in Europe in the S.X. It stopped grinding after barely 60 years in operation Since August 1989 it is inventoried in the National Center of Windmills of Spain.

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Church of Santo Tomé de Bemantes

Of baroque style, highlights the Romanesque baptismal font and an anthropomorphic sarcophagus of s. XII located on the outside of the temple.

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Ponte Baxoi

It is part of the network of bridges built by Fernán Pérez de Andrade or "BOO", in the fourteenth century to facilitate the passage of carriages through their domains. Point of passage of the English Way.

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Chapel of 'Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe and Augas Santas' fountain

According to legend this fountain has miraculous waters. As it protects from envy and evil eye, as well as from plagues. Popular tradition and beliefs made the collection of water from this source to spray the land and thus preserve the crops.

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Monument to the House of Andrade

Monument in honor of Fernán Pérez de Andrade, it is a cross on a boar that symbolizes the triumph of good over evil. Work of the sculptor Alfonso Sanmartín, 1962.

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Legend of Roxin Roxal
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sundials

Church of San Xoán de Callobre

Church of predominantly baroque style from the 18th century. The interior is very sober, from the ornamental point of view. With a Latin cross plan, the space between the presbytery and the side chapels is resolved by semicircular arches. Highlights include the Romanesque baptismal font and the altars with the images of San Juan and La Dolorosa. The exterior concentrates the decoration on the main façade. On the outside there are two sundials dating from 1814.

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Church of San Xulián de Carantoña

Baroque church of rural typology. It has a rectangular plan with three sections corresponding to the nave, presbytery and sacristy. Inside is the Chapel of Saint Nicholas and a stone baptismal font with archaic characteristics. Outside the decoration is concentrated on the main façade.

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Chapel of Nuestra Señora Inmaculada

The interior features a Baroque altarpiece in a golden tone, with the letter M at the top, a symbol of the Montenegrin family. Every 24th of August there is a pilgrimage in honor of San Paio.

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Church of San Pedro of Perbes

Baroque church of rural typology. It has a rectangular floor where it develops a single nave. The interior is very sober from the ornamental point of view, highlighting the altarpiece of the high altar of neoclassical characteristics. The exterior concentrates the decoration on the main façade.

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Chapel of Condes de Vigo

Baroque style, it is attached to the church of Santa María de Castro. In its rectangular floor develops a single nave. Inside, the sarcophagi of the Counts of Vigo, Juan Martínez Tenreiro de Montenegro and María Piñeiro de Lago, decorated with the family coat of arms of the S.XVI.
The exterior concentrates the sparse decoration on the main facade, where a coat of arms of s. XVIII. in which the emblems of the lords of Vigo appear.

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