Mancomunidad Vigo

Council: Vigo
Localization: Porta do Sol 11

Date: 16th to the 18th centuries
Council: O Porriño
Localization: In San Salvador de Budiño
The house of Budiño bears the coat of arms of the Correa and the Alemparte families. The origin of this house is a building from the 16th century, which despite the present day structure as we know it, refurbished in 1985, actually dates back to the 18th century.A L-shaped building, constructed using rubble stone. The main entrance is on the first storey, which one accedes through a staircase with a balustrade and which leads to a balcony. At the bottom of the building are the stables and the cellar. It is privately owned currently and cannot be visited.

Date: 18th century
Council: Mos
Localization: At Santa Eulalia de Mos
House of the marquisate of Mos, a title conferred on Gabriel de Quirós. In the 18th century, the title was included into the Spanish nobility and in 1810 was linked to the marquisate of Valladares. After the death in 1908 of the Marquis of Vega de Armijo (also the Marquis of Mos and of Valadares), who had also presided the Senate, the titles were passed onto his niece María Vinials, Marquise of Ayerbe, who was the last user in succession of the Soutomaior castle. A square building with three masonry storeys. It was in ruins for many years until it was finally restored.

Date: 14th century onwards
Council: Nigrán
Localization: Nigrán
This is one of the most beautiful ""pazos"" in the whole of Val Miñor. It has a canonical structure: main building or the so called ""pazo"", chapel, pigeon loft, gardens, walled area… The garden has a tower, which must have been a part of the original building, which was built under orders from Vasco Gómez de Cadaval. The Cadaval family continued living there and built a new building in 1688. Some of the parts were posterior additions. The coats of arms with lineages that had a relationship with this property are: Cadaval, Ceta, Montenegro, Oya, Figuera, Saavedra and Urzaiz families, the last ones being the most recent. They became linked to the place towards the end of the 19th century.The building has a U shaped floor plan with a central staircase that provides access to the main floor, since the ground floor is occupied by stables and a cellar. The stairs lead to an open space that functions as a hall, which provides access to the central and lateral parts of the building. Reforms were performed for widening the place and incorporating new elements from the 17th to the 20th centuries.

Council: Vigo
Localization: Parque de Castrelos

Date: 17th and later centuries
Council: Redondela
Localization: In the neighbourhood of Cruceiro, parish of Cedeira.
Towards the end of the 19th century, Manuel Bárcena, the owner of this manor house, was conferred with a noble title, namely, Count of Torre Cedeira, by the King of Spain. The house by then had undergone two amplifications, the most recent one ordered by the Count himself, who built the building of the savings bank Caja de Ahorros de Vigo, today known as Caixanova, and the work was entrusted to one of the most famous architects of the time: Paczevich. The manor house has a central block with stairway and a big balcony with a vantage point. Its garden has centenary trees and vegetation that practically hides it from indiscrete eyes.Construction began in the 17th century, with a central structure to which posterior parts were added in the 18th and 19th centuries. The garden is from the end of the 19th and start of the 20th century. It is privately owned and prior permission is needed to visit the building. Many films were shot at this site.

Date: 16th-18th century bldg. Restored in 19th century
Council: Gondomar
Localization: Gondomar urban centre
Residence of Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, Count of Gondomar, title received from King Philip III. This house was presumably built on the remains of a medieval fort. The Count of Gondomar was born in this house. During the reign of Philip II, he was of the most important Spanish diplomacy figures at the time; he was named Spanish Ambassador in London. During the count's life time, the house was in its best splendour and had a lot of land surrounded by a defensive wall and reached what is known today as the Gondomar town hall. A fire in the 18th century caused serious damage to the building and was restored in the 19th century by his successors, who were by then related to the most prestigious of the Spanish nobility, namely the Fernández de Córdoba, who were descendents of the Great Captain with which this town fused to the title ofMonument declared as asset of cultural interest by the Xunta de Galicia.

Council: Vigo
Localization: Rúa do Conde

Council: Vigo
Localization: Raposeira, Vigo

Date: 16th & 18th centuries
Council: Gondomar
Localization: Vilaza
This is a manor house which, save for the refurbishment carried out in the 18th century, which can be considered as a traditional structure of the coastal manor houses in the South of Galicia, did not get altered much and still maintains its original plan.It is a L-shaped 2-storey building with a later addition of another storey, which provided the creation of an almost interior central patio and gave it a square configuration. The grounds are enclosed with a rubble wall except for the doorway area where it is made of masonry and has a trabeate door, above which is the coat of arms of the house with the arms of the Arines, Taboada, Castro, Acuña, Sotomayor, Ceta and Troncoso.

Date: 1740
Council: Redondela
Localization: Parish of Reboreda
Francisco Marcó del Pont, son of a Catalan business family who came to live in Vigo to start a fish salting business, was the person who ordered the construction of this building. Besides the industrial nature of this family and their huge success, the Marcó del Pont family were also well known for their military prowess, with generals amongst them, and also in politics, with one Mayor of Vigo from the family and one Viceroy in Peru. After many difficulties, this manor house changed ownership, the new owner was an important Vigo businessman named Enrique Lorenzo, founder of the Vulcano shipyard and other companies. The manor house now belongs to his heirs.The growth of the town of Redondela reached the very gates of this house, which today can be considered as an urban area, despite not being so originally. It has been catalogued as an Asset of Cultural Interest (BIC). The building was planned as an L shaped floor plan with a tower with battlements at one of the ends. The staircase which leads to a little sheltered space called patín is worth mentioning. There is a garden and surrounding boundary wall. The chapel lies in this open but enclosed ground.

Council: Vigo
Localization: Av. Emilio Martínez Garrido

Council: Vigo
Localization: Callejón de Rivera Atienza

Date: 18th century
Council: Baiona
Localization: Santa Cristina de A Ramallosa, Sabarís.
The Pazo of Sabarís is a building with a religious character as manifested by its trabeated access doorway, with a pinnacle finish and a stone cross. It was restored in 1990 and is used by the Bishopric of Tui-Vigo Diocese as a religious retreat residence centre and for other activities. It has a L-shaped floor plan and one of its wings ends in a tower, which was incorporated in the 19th century. It lies in the parish of Santa Cristina.

Date: 16th to 18th centuries
Council: Mos
Localization: Parish of San Salvador de Louredo
The San Antonio manor house has a coat of arms of the Lanzós and the Taboada lineages to which it was linked ever since the building was built. A stone rectangular two storey building constructed with rubble stones. A stone wall surrounds the building with a crenulated access door. It has a chapel which was built in the 16th century and other parts amongst which is a water mill.

Council: Vigo
Localization: San Roque

Date: 18th to the 20th century
Council: Gondomar
Localization: Vilaza
The history of this manor house began in 1725 when its first owner, Domingo de la Fuente started to build it. Over its 3 centuries of history, it was refurbished several times, the latest being in the 1970s.U-shaped aristocratic building constructed using rubble stones on all walls except the corners and around doors and windows which are made from masonry. The access to the main storey is through a stairway located in the central patio to the left of the building. The most important element of the southern facade is the balcony with eleven arches.

Date: 17th century onwards
Council: Nigrán
Localization: San Pedro de A Ramallosa
The Pazo de Pías, was built under order of Plácido Correa. This surname was linked to the place for a long time. It currently belongs to the congregation of the Apostolic Sisters, who in the 1960s made alterations to the living quarters to adapt them to the current use: house of spiritual retreats.It has a rectangular floor plan and two storeys despite the building having an original L-shaped plan. The main facade is quite elegant and although the building originally dated to 17th century, this part is more appropriate to the 18th century, with a trabeated door, flanked by two Doric columns and two embrasure windows. On both sides of the first floor balcony we find elaborate coats of arms of the Avalle, Correa, Losda, Castroviejo and Arias families. The entire architectural set has a double stone granary (doble hórreo), which is unique in the whole of Galicia.

Date: 18th century
Council: Baiona
Localization: Santa Cristina de A Ramallosa, next to the river Miñor.
Its construction was ordered by Mr. Pedro Cadaval San Román and is located within a semi-urban environment, with the river Miñor, the bridge and the stone cross nearby. There are two coats of arms on the main facade that flank windows on either side. They represent the arms of the Losada, Ribera, Taboada and Varela families. This is a rectangular aristocrat house with a wide balcony, sustained by five moulded corbels.

Date: 10th to the 14th centuries
Council: Baiona
Localization: Jesús Valverde, s/n.
The Monte Real Fort was one of the territorial defence bastions during the first disputes between Spain & Portugal, during the reign of King Alfónso XI. From the 16th century onwards, it changed to a purely military fort, although it had previously served as shelter for the population of the village that had been established inside the walls of the castle. The defensive wall offers a magnificent walk from where one can get a beautiful panoramic view of Baiona port, the Bay, the Cíes Islands and the Atlantic Ocean. It was the residence of the Count of Gondomar, from where the current tourism parador, installed on its premises since the 1960s, got its name. Diego Sarmiento, the Count of Gondomar, was the governor of this fort when it managed to repel the attacks of Drake in 1585, with the help of residents of Baiona. This took place three years before the Invincible Armada of King Felipe II entered into combat with the English fleet.A medieval castle built between the 10th and the 14th centuries. The boundary wall was the last thing to be built. The building has three towers: The clock tower, the Prince's Tower and the Tongs Tower. The premises house the Parador Nacional de Turismo (National chain of Hotels) and the Monte Real Yacht Club. The fort can be visited and one can even stroll on its walls.