Monumento Natural Pena Corneira | Ponte da Cruz | Ponte do Santo Sepulcro

The Pena Corneira mountain range has been classified as a Natural Monument since December 2007 and covers an area of ​​almost a thousand hectares, making it the largest park of its kind in Galicia. It runs through the municipalities of Leiro, Carballeda de Avia and Avión, in the province of Ourense. It is an extension of the Sierra del Suído, between the basins of the Avia and Miño rivers, from a geological point of view. Therefore, it forms part of the ‘Galician ridge’ together with the A Faladoira mountain range, El Faro de Avión and the Montes de Testeiro, a north-south mountain range with an altitude of up to 1000 metres above sea level, which is a natural border between the provinces of Pontevedra and Ourense. It stands out for being a plutonic batholithic mass of 18 km in a meridian direction and 7 km in a southwest-northeast direction, of magma from a volcano approximately 300 million years ago. With a variety of post-cinematic Hercynian granitic rocks, which are characterized by a multitude of geological forms such as granite ridges, alveolar domes and chaos of balls, among others. And from which the 'great rock' stands out, the menhir of O Ribeiro, which owes its name to its horn shape.A formation of about ten meters vertically, which many claim corresponds to the shape of a unicorn, so it can be seen from many points in the Avia Valley.

PONTE DA CRUZ , PAZOS DE ARENTEIRO

It is located on the Avia River with great monumentality. It suffered the ravages of the War of Independence, although its structure was considerably damaged, which caused its subsequent collapse, due to the collateral effects caused by the Lisbon earthquake of 1755.Today, only one of the four original well-crafted arches of the old bridge remains, of which we have the foundations, but an updated intervention was carried out with some metal structures and a wooden floor, all supported on the old bridge foundations.Originally it had four complete arches, but due to the construction of the nearby reservoir, the riverbed decreased and hence the disproportionate size.

PONTE DO SANTO SEPULCRO, PAZOS DE ARENTEIRO

This medieval bridge was part of a communication route called Camiño Miñoto Ribeiro that linked the area of ​​O Ribeiro, from Ribadavia, to the important cities of Pontevedra, Santiago or Padrón. Its main transit was for muleteers who traded wine from this area to the bourgeois cities and to the ports, where the precious wine of O Ribeiro was even imported to England.The Ponte do Santo Sepulcro is a bridge with two arches of medieval origin but with traces of having been reformed in the 18th century. Above the keystone of the largest arch and upstream is the engraved Cross of the Holy Sepulchre and downstream the figure of a saint that some interpret as Santiago.