LIGHT, COMFORT AND BEAUTY

The House of O Souto da Aldea

Available all year long

100 m²

Tie 4 hosts

Fully equipped

O Souto da Aldea is a tourist house located in Parada de Sil, in the heart of the Ribeira Sacra.

You will enjoy a complete house of 100m² with 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, kitchen, dining room and living room fully equipped to receive visitors all year round.

In addition, the house has a spectacular terrace and garden from which to enjoy the views of the Sil Canyon.

from

Dende 110€ / noite

Services

We already told you that in O Souto da Aldea you would feel yourself at home.

Still don’t believe us? We’ll leave you with a breakdown of all the services and equipment you’ll find in the house during your stay.

In addition, the house has heating, beautiful views and free parking.

Entrance without steps to the accommodation, path without steps to the entrance of the accommodation.

Kitchen

vitro-induction
dishwasher
oven
microwave
refrigerator
toaster
tableware
frying pans
different size pots
steamed food basket
Italian and capsule coffee maker (multiple types supported)
cutlery set
wine glasses
for beer and for water
picnic plates and cups
picnic basket

Bathrooms

shampoo
Shower gel
toilet paper
hair dryer
towels

Bedrooms

sheets
quilt
crib with bedding
Iron and ironing board

Living room

sofa
television
work area
heating
air conditioning
wifi
first aid kit

Much more than a house for tourist lodging

We are four siblings who want to protect and recover our parents’ heritage, restoring value to a family home that is a little older but has a lot of potential.
The architectural design of the house was carried out by Ana Recuna and Iñaki Mendizábal. They helped us to turn a small house, since we started from the existing structure, into a house full of light, comfort and beauty.
The house is full of details, works of art and charming corners that will make you feel at home.
The sculptor Cándido Caneiro, Lumeares (A Teixeira), created three specific works for O Souto da Aldea:
Sete caras, refers to the seven faces of the stone that the stonemasons call (seven positions);
Lombada, it alludes to the slopes of the Sil River through these lands;
Por-tal é…cal? relates the links, to the connections, to the links.
It is also part of Caneiro’s work Obxecto topado e transformado, the face in the mirror, one face facing the other.

The viewpoint of Souto da Aldea

The public path, next to the house, separates it from the Miradoiro do Souto da Aldea. A space to enjoy a land that was once a vineyard. We can still recognize some vines, among them, our famous alcabril, and contemplate the Sil Canyon looking towards Val do Can. We can climb the pataos (terraces) and imagine the added difficulty that the steep terrain posed to the work in the fields, hence the name heroic viticulture. We will have to climb a few terraces to be able to contemplate the Sil River, the natural border of the provinces of Lugo and Ourense. The height will allow us to see on the slopes of Lugo: the lands of the municipality of Sober with the famous Amandi vineyards, A Barca de Abaixo, the Sanctuary of Nosa Señora de Cadeiras where the sun sets for a few days in the summer. On the edge of Ourense we will see: Val do Can, Parada de Sil, Monte Meda and the parishes of Chandrexa and Sacardebois.

The name

O Souto da Aldea is the place name of the place where the house and its garden are built. That is why we decided that this should be the name it should bear.

Galicia is a country very rich in toponymy. As Xesús Ferro Ruibal says:

“Man gives names to all the realities with which he has a direct, intense and daily relationship. Therefore, the fact that in Galicia every stream, every meadow, every path, every cliff, every mountain, every fountain has its name is a demonstration that the relationship of Galicians with nature is always very intense. And for this reason, every name is a document. Sometimes, a very old document”

Toponymy, as he says, is a documentary treasure. There could be no better reason for the choice. And especially when we learned, thanks to information received by the Linguistic Advice of the General Secretariat for Linguistic Policy, after consultation carried out by them with the Onomastics Seminar of the Royal Galician Academy, that in Galicia Nomeada only three identical microtoponyms are recorded. The Souto da Aldea is recorded in Sarria (Lugo), in Celanova (Ourense) and that of our village.