Monday 5th May 2025.
We stopped part way on our journey today at the city of Ourense, which is situated down steep roads into a valley. It isn’t a tourist destination but it should be famous for its bridges over the river, I think we saw 4 in a short stretch of the river including the most recent the millennium bridge.
There are walkways constructed from both sides of the bridge which meet at a viewing platform in the centre, we didn’t venture up too many steps.
This is the view from Homer tonight, it is the monument of San Vincent’s Del Pino it has the Tower of Homage, 30m high with 3m thick walls, the Condal Palace home to the Counts of Lemos and the Benedictine monastery. Of course being out of season it was closed on a Monday.
As we wandered around Monforte de Lemos we came across this huge building.
Colegio Nissan SRA, or Da Antiga e a Sua Pinacoteca a school with a facade of 100m which commenced construction in 1593 and wasn’t completed until 1910. The building has four famous key aspects , cloister, church, staircase and museum which contains 2 El Greco paintings amongst other fine works of art.
There are pleasant gardens alongside the river which lead back to tonight’s free aire.
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