Combarro

Combarro constitutes nowadays an incomparable example of popular Galician architecture and is considered to be one of the villages better preserved of Galicia, singular urban grouping, so singular that was declared in the Joint 1972 of artistic and picturesque interest due to hisexceptional captivation. It is as if you were entering a magic, genuine village of the popular Galician architecture. Seaworthy village in which it seems that the years have not happened, one of the most beautiful fishing cores of the Galician coast. His old hull was constructed adapting like life of his settlers: sailors and agriculturalists. The traveler can meditate since hismore than 30 barns they line up on the granitic base that gives form to the coast and come up to the shore of the sea. It is in the wall that surrounds the historical hull where these granaries of maize embed themselves, in Combarro you prop given his singular mixing of agricultural and seaworthy activity they are in use as dry of kinds of anchovy, sardines and others fished typical of her Laugh, of there the peculiarity of these barns constructed at the edge of the sea, unlike the typical Galician barns constructed to guard the crops of the farmers. Besides the barns, in Combarro we find numerous "cruceiros" placed in squares and crossroads of ways due to the Galician belief of protection of these architectural elements.