DRAFT 16 OCTOBER 2010 GR-8 (RUTA DO LOR)
SECTION 1: Cebreiro-Santalla (O Courel)
Distance: 11 km
Duration of tour: 3 hours
Difficulty: Easy
Route description:
With this first installment began the project consists of exploring the impressive trail grand tour GR-8, also known as "Route Lor do" and that over of 68 km will take us across the Sierra do Courel, alongside the flagship channel of the Lor River, visiting villages and seeing many great diversity of elements which are traditional buildings, archaeological sites, monuments and large number of varied forest vegetation.
This first route is a comfortable route that runs mostly falling on old roads and trails and crosses by very attractive with beautiful scenery, traditional villages, many and varied ethnographic elements forests.
The route starts at Cebreiro, using the same route of the Camino de Santiago. Then we enter the forest area where peace and quiet is the dominant note. We
the place called "Fonte do Rei", which marks the limits of the parish of Liñares Celeiro the place where the road divides and separates the Camino de Santiago earlier, continuing along a mountain trail through undefined begins to descend gradually.
continue down path of divisiveness beautiful views of the mountains, overlooking the valley full of vegetation and all kinds of trees. We passed near the village of bitterness and we Celeirós, located in a beautiful location amidst a chestnut souto. We left the village and continue until you reach one of the landmarks along the route: "I Corgos do Flax ", traditional construction consisting of small ponds with continuous input and output of water where they" cooked "the linen for 40 days and then dried and subsequently treated so that it can weave.
continue descending along the mountain of Vieira to reach the site of Fonte do Cubo, where one house, the house of Roque. Nearby lies the source of the river Lor, it's worth visiting.
A little later we passed the village of Fonteboa until it joins the road which leads us to another village without loss of the area: Fonlor. Here we will turn down a path that crosses the river a few minutes and leads Lor another of the key points of the route: the "Muíño of Pedrodaira" interesting well-preserved traditional building built in 1923 and that served many of the villages in the area, which includes, in addition to the construction , an annex to house the horses and carts and had brought the grain flour.
From here the road begins to climb gently to pass near the hill fort Santalla, which has not yet been excavated. Met one of the villages in the area: I Casares, we go through to follow a path that, now, the river drops sharply to introducing us to an area with lots of beautiful forests and vegetation.
From the river we began the hardest part of the route with a steep climb that leads directly to the square of the village of Santalla, where there is a good fresh supply waiting for us, and that is the end of this first tranche of GR-8.
the afternoon, we made a short trip of 3 km away to find the remains of the fascinating Doncos Tower, one of the 3 fortresses that guarded the entrance to Galicia from Leon, built in the fifteenth century and was owned the Valcárcel, one of the most influential bloodlines of that time in Spain.
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