- The City Council
- The Municipality
- Visiting Palas de Rei
- Citizen Services
- External Links
- Contact
<- voltar
The history of Palas de Rei is fondly linked to the fort culture; it still preserves a large number of archaeological remains (‘mámoas’, dolmens and forts) witness of a distant settlement.
According to the tradition, the council gets its name from ‘pallatium regis’ the palace of the Visigothic king Witiza, who reigned between 702 and 710. Witiza probably killed here the Duke of Galicia, Fafila, who was Don Pelayo’s father.
The Romanesque art came through the Way of St. James; it left its mark in the religious architecture. The main example of this is the Vilar de Donas church, one of the main models of the Galician Romanesque; it was declared Historic and Artistic monument in 1931. Its mural paintings are one of the most notable and best preserved in Galicia.
The via ‘Lucus Augusti’ went through Palas and, it is confirmed that in the 6th century Palas belonged to the County of Ulliensis. The Middle Age was also a prospering period for the village, thanks mainly to the Way of St. James. The Calixtino Codex quoted Palas as a compulsory stop for the pilgrims in order to face the last stage of the St. James route.
The council of Palas de Rei has a wide range of artistic heritage, it reflects the noble past of this region, since it preserves the remains of a fortress, towers, castles and, many ‘pazos’ (noble Galician houses) and blazoned houses. The most relevant constructions are the old tower-house of Filgueira, the tower-house of Fontecuberta, the Pazo of Laia, which preserves a coat of arms from the counts of Traba, from which lineage came the founder of Pambre; the house of Ulloa where there are represented different families by their coats of arms (the Saavedras, Montenegros, Gayosos and Dezas); the Pazo Mariñao, the Pazo of Pacheco and, finally the Castle of Pambre. It is a fortress raised by Gonzalo Ozores de Ulloa around 1375, this castle resisted to the Irmandiño wars in 1467, becoming one of the best examples of Galician military architecture.
Palas was also a main character in the Second Carlista War; it was one of the fewest municipalities where the uprising triumphed in 1846, establishing a revolutionary junta.
These lands inspired writers like López Ferreiro, Álvaro Cunqueiro or Emilia Pardo Bazán, who set his most outstanding work in the Pazo of Ulloa, where it is said that the queen Mrs. Urraca lived.
History
The history of Palas de Rei is fondly linked to the fort culture; it still preserves a large number of archaeological remains (‘mámoas’, dolmens and forts) witness of a distant settlement.According to the tradition, the council gets its name from ‘pallatium regis’ the palace of the Visigothic king Witiza, who reigned between 702 and 710. Witiza probably killed here the Duke of Galicia, Fafila, who was Don Pelayo’s father.
The Romanesque art came through the Way of St. James; it left its mark in the religious architecture. The main example of this is the Vilar de Donas church, one of the main models of the Galician Romanesque; it was declared Historic and Artistic monument in 1931. Its mural paintings are one of the most notable and best preserved in Galicia.
The via ‘Lucus Augusti’ went through Palas and, it is confirmed that in the 6th century Palas belonged to the County of Ulliensis. The Middle Age was also a prospering period for the village, thanks mainly to the Way of St. James. The Calixtino Codex quoted Palas as a compulsory stop for the pilgrims in order to face the last stage of the St. James route.
The council of Palas de Rei has a wide range of artistic heritage, it reflects the noble past of this region, since it preserves the remains of a fortress, towers, castles and, many ‘pazos’ (noble Galician houses) and blazoned houses. The most relevant constructions are the old tower-house of Filgueira, the tower-house of Fontecuberta, the Pazo of Laia, which preserves a coat of arms from the counts of Traba, from which lineage came the founder of Pambre; the house of Ulloa where there are represented different families by their coats of arms (the Saavedras, Montenegros, Gayosos and Dezas); the Pazo Mariñao, the Pazo of Pacheco and, finally the Castle of Pambre. It is a fortress raised by Gonzalo Ozores de Ulloa around 1375, this castle resisted to the Irmandiño wars in 1467, becoming one of the best examples of Galician military architecture.
Palas was also a main character in the Second Carlista War; it was one of the fewest municipalities where the uprising triumphed in 1846, establishing a revolutionary junta.
These lands inspired writers like López Ferreiro, Álvaro Cunqueiro or Emilia Pardo Bazán, who set his most outstanding work in the Pazo of Ulloa, where it is said that the queen Mrs. Urraca lived.
