DO VALDEORRAS

Valdeorras, region placed in the part - western South of Ourense's province, is the natural door of entry to Galicia. It is molded by a deep fertile and luminous valley by the one that passes pleasantly and I laugh Sil, master of a magic landscape of granite and slate. Red and black Earths where there grows the chestnut-tree, the grapevine and the olive tree. Valdeorras, crusade from this one to west for the route the XVIIIth or Route Nongoes that he was communicating Panty with Astorga, it was land of step and destination of the Roman legions that came to exploit his auriferous resources and where, under the protection of a special Mediterranean - oceanic microclimate, they planted the first vine-stocks and to construct presses. This way, they were giving origin to a tradition and culture, today secular in the culture of the grapevine and the production of exquisite wines that there sang the rosemaries and pilgrims who were following the Royal Way towards the tomb of the Apostle Santiago.