¿Buscas aventuras? Has venido al lugar perfecto. Un día estás haciendo una ruta a pie o bicicleta por nuestros montes, al siguiente estás visitando una mina de carbón o una cascada, o incluso disfrutando de la gastronomía local.
Explora el municipio de Villagatón con sus lengendarios picos montañosos, magníficas rutas de senderismo, galerías romanas únicas, un rico patrimonio cultural, y todo rodeado de naturaleza.
Podrás disfrutar de experiencias al aire libre e interiores en los trece pueblos del municipio. Desde la historia de ferrocarril en el Museo del Ferrocarril en Brañuelas, hasta la Ruta Oro, Carbón y Pan en Montealegre o la Ermita de San José en Requejo.
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Utiliza el buscador para encontrar las distintas opciones de alojamiento, restauración o puntos de interés en los distintos pueblos del municipio de Villagatón.
Montealegre
Roman Gallery of Barranco del Góngora
Curious set of Roman gold mines, carried out both in the open pit by hydraulic mining, and by underground work in a gold quartz deposit, probably throughout the first two centuries of our era.
It is born in the sources of the Barrios and its passage through Villar is prior to reaching the Villameca Reservoir.
Villar
Fountain
It has three fresh water pipes. In the centre, there is a millstone.
Villar
Church of San Juan Bautista
It dates from the 18th century. In 1861, a lightning strike broke the windows of the main chapel and the choir.
Villagatón
Church of San Esteban
The Villagatón church was built in the mid-18th century on top of an older one. It has a Latin cross plan. It consists of a central nave, with the most ...
Old water mill used to grind cereal to obtain flour.
Tabladas
Church of Santa Maria Magdalena
Its construction dates from the end of the 18th century. In it was the well-known reliquary of Saint Apollonia, corresponding to the 18th century, which houses two miniature ivory virgins from the 13th and 14th centuries. Currently, this reliquary is in Astorga.
Requejo
Hot water fountains
The temperature of its water is warm throughout the year.
Requejo
Church of Santa Eulalia
Documentation that is preserved refers to 1864. The church of Culebros was attached to it.
Requejo
Hermitage of San José
It was built in 1739 on the initiative of three priests from Requejo who founded the chaplaincy. The baroque style of the architecture of the hermitage is very unique, since it has no resemblance.
Cylindrical stone block that was placed on Roman roads to indicate the distance to a certain point.
Later it was used as one of the pillars of the altar of the Monastery of San Juan.
Montealegre
Roman Medulas
Small mines that the Romans exploited in search of gold.
Montealegre
Monastery of San Juan
It was originally a monastery called San Martín de Montes, which already appears in documents in 946.
The Montealegre Rural Tourism Center is a rural tourism accommodation located on the border that separates the regions of Bierzo, Cepeda and Maragatería.
They are 4 meters high and are located in the place of the same name, to disperse the storms that destroyed the crops. At the top, it carried a closed container with mercury inside (brought from the US). This idea was transmitted to the residents of the town by one of the many pilgrims who made the Camino de Santiago through Manzanal. The original cross disappeared in 1945 after a heavy snowfall.
Manzanal del Puerto
Majar Casinas
Built in the 60s with typical materials of the area (stone, slab, adobe ...), by several neighbours who joined forces (first the elderly and later the youth), to store the machinery used in the cereal cleaning work. They are located in the era of the town because it was where the construction work of bundles, mashed, cleaned, threshed...etc.
Manzanal del Puerto
Peña de Santo Tirso Hermitage
It is a natural cave under which the Hermitage is housed, where every year the weekend before Corpus Christi celebrates the festival in honour of Santo Tirso since according to legend, he took refuge there. The Saint is transferred in procession to here, where the tradition of passing through the mountains to heal pain is carried out.
Manzanal del Puerto
Cosmological Stele
Carboniferous sandstone rock reused as a voussoir in the village Church, in which there are engraved symbols from more than 4,000 years ago representing two men, the sun god and a female deity.
Manzanal del Puerto
Church of Santa Marina
Its construction dates from the end of the 18th century and is dedicated to Santa Marina, patron saint of the town.
It owes its name to an old iron mine that is in the upper part and that is surrounded by a grove of centenary chestnut trees.
La Silva
Well of San Juan
An extraction well and personnel entrance crossing remains of mining activity.
La Silva
La Llama Park with the Foundational Milestone of San Martín de Montes
Roman milestone was re-used as a pillar of the altar of the Monastery of San Juan in which there is an inscription in Latin and in the upper part, a hollow in which the relics of San Juan were located.
La Silva
Mining Museum
Santa Bárbara Park: Bocamina and mining machinery.
Its waters are very cold so no type of arboreal vegetation grows in its environment.
Culebros
Recreational Area
Area with tables, barbecue and shade
Culebros
Water Well
From it the water was drawn to irrigate or give water to the animals.
Culebros
Church of San Cipriano
Temple from the 18th century that preserves elements from the Monastery of San Bartolo Hospital such as the Romanesque arch at the entrance, the staircase to the bell towers, the baptismal font and the cross of the Hospitaller Order of San Juan.
La casa del capataz del ferrocarril de Brañuelas se ha convertido en un Bar-Restaurante que combina la comida tradicional con un diseño moderno y acogedor. ¡Prueba el Cachopo!
