Concello de Barbadás

O TANGARAÑO DE BARBADÁS
O Tangaraño is a gigantic rock, a typical granite boulder of many metres in diameter sitting on top of other rocks, so that you can pass underneath it crouch...
On the Mount of San Bieito de Cova do Lobo, in San Lourenzo de Piñor, there is a rock that serves as an exceptional viewpoint over the city of Ourense and is very visited during the pilgrimage of San Bieito de Cova do Lobo.
O Tangaraño is a gigantic rock, a typical granite boulder of many metres in diameter sitting on top of other rocks, so that you can pass under it crouching down. Inside, in a corner, there is a small cavity in the rock that is always full of water.
It is said to have healing properties, especially for skin diseases: warts, tumours, goitre, wounds and rickets in children (a disease known as tangaraño).
Legend
Three women have to pass the muddy children through the hole of the Stone of the Tangaraño.
They take off the child's old clothes and pass him or her from the outside to the inside of the rock over the pool of water.
They then dress the child in new clothes, leaving the clothes he was wearing there, making strips of the old clothes and leaving them tied up in the branches on the way to the temple.
The name of San Bieito de Cova do Lobo comes from the belief that San Bieito himself was running away in those mountains.
was running away through those mountains and hid in a wolf's cave.
On the Mount of San Bieito de Cova do Lobo, in San Lourenzo de Piñor, there is a rock that serves as an exceptional viewpoint over the city of Ourense and is very visited during the pilgrimage of San Bieito de Cova do Lobo.
O Tangaraño is a gigantic rock, a typical granite boulder of many metres in diameter sitting on top of other rocks, so that you can pass under it crouching down. Inside, in a corner, there is a small cavity in the rock that is always full of water.
It is said to have healing properties, especially for skin diseases: warts, tumours, goitre, wounds and rickets in children (a disease known as tangaraño).
Legend
Three women have to pass the muddy children through the hole of the Stone of the Tangaraño.
They take off the child's old clothes and pass him or her from the outside to the inside of the rock over the pool of water.
They then dress the child in new clothes, leaving the clothes he was wearing there, making strips of the old clothes and leaving them tied up in the branches on the way to the temple.
The name of San Bieito de Cova do Lobo comes from the belief that San Bieito himself was running away in those mountains.
was running away through those mountains and hid in a wolf cave.

O TANGARAÑO DE BARBADÁS
O Tangaraño is a gigantic rock, a typical granite boulder of many metres in diameter sitting on top of other rocks, so that you can pass underneath it crouch...

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FUENTE DE LEMOS
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HISTORIC CENTRE OF BENTRACES
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CHAPEL OF THE VIRGEN DE LAS NIEVES (VIRGIN OF THE SNOWS)
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CHAPEL OF SAINT MAURO AND THE WAINSCOT OF ANIMAS
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