A Pobra de Trives

We will begin our walk through the Villa at the Tourist Office. This is located in an old building that was once the La Salle school, Santa Leonor. Today that building houses the tourist office, Museum of Childhood and School (a permanent exhibition, which tells the history of our country through the world of children and schools), interpretation center (a walk through Terras de Trives through music, sounds, lights, voices, objects ... in it we will discover the history, the products, the forests, the towns, we will meet its people and we will discover the mountain of life), traveling exhibition hall and library.

Towards the center and a few meters away we find the old Casino, from the 19th century granite building adorned with elaborate canopies. In it the pro families gambled their fortunes until the middle of the 20th century, which was closed and became private home. In front of the casino we have the  Church of Santo Cristo, inaugurated on September 14, 1885, there is the Holy Christ brought from the Holy Land and built with wood from the Mount of Olives. Following the same sidewalk from which we started, a few meters away we find the Palace of the Marqués, a stately mansion of modern construction, on its façade there is a coat of arms corresponding to the surname Alvarado. The most interesting is in its gardens, decorated with authentic Roman remains. 

A few meters further up we will be in the center of the old part and we will find the Plaza del Reloj and in it our Tower. Tower that was first part of the old church of San Bartolomé, demolished when the new one was built. It was rebuilt and in the 60s it was thrown away again. Time passed and by popular request it was rebuilt again in 1995 and on its door some plaques read 'As they are xa fun, leave me like this forever', as I am, I already was, leave me like this forever.

We will continue straight ahead to the Tower by Calle Real, the oldest in our town, full of galleries that help keep the house warm, we turn left at the first street we find and we will see Pazo Casanova, a private home with the stone of arms in its granite facade.

We follow the street and when we turn the first corner we find ourselves in. Plaza Doctor Paz, old Plaza de la Pescadería, (so called because it was where fish arrived from Vigo used to be sold), a charming little square where the oldest house in the town is. If we leave this we will meet again on the main street that crosses the town, right at the Plaza Mayor or better known for Plaza del Pilón, because a four-pipe fountain was located there that formerly supplied water to houses

In front of this square is the Big House, which preserves its old original configuration almost intact, the building is distributed around a central patio from where a stone staircase leads to the first floor. On the facade is its coat of arms and the chapel of the house dedicated to the Virgen del Carmen. She was a pioneer in rural tourism country houses in Galicia. We will walk along the main street to admire the architecture of many of the houses, stately 19th century houses built in granite by the families who came to rest at first but who ended up settling in the town. We also see someindiana house, named for being built by returned emigrants who had made their fortune in“ the Americas ”.