Description

The garden was laid out at the beginning of the 19th century by a French gardener, possibly Mathias Tiebe, and is divided into three zones: ornamental, horticultural and wooded.

The trees

The most valuable collection of arborescent myrtles in Galicia stands out, whose presence in the Pazo, together with the Arbutus unedo, considered the largest in this community, dates back to the first half of the 19th century. From the second half of the 20th century, there are around fifty Platanus x hispanica, many over 40 meters high, Eucalyptus globulus which are surely the oldest in Galicia, as well as specimens of Camellia, Phoenix dactylifera, Cupressus lusitánica, Magnolia grandiflora and Fraxinus.

The Baroque chapel 

In the surroundings of the gardens, the 15th century pazo is located, with renovations from the 17th and 18th centuries and imperial stairways from the 18th century, the Baroque chapel from the 18th century, although with origins from the 15th-16th centuries, with a neoclassical altarpiece of 4 sizes by José Gambino. Inside the building, there is the gallery with works from the s. XIX to the present, especially by Galician artists (Picasso, Brocos, Ovidio Murgía, Isaac Díaz Pardo ...).

The oldest piece is a flamenco-style panel from the 16th century, it also presents pieces loaned on deposit by the Prado Museum, 19th century furniture and other ornamental accessories, carvings, porcelain, traditional works of the province, vintage carriages, etc.

The garden of the word

In the garden there is a small jetty that, in addition to being used as a place of leisure, served the lords and servants of the pazo to cross the estuary before the construction of the Pedrido bridge. Starting in 1997, the "garden of the word" was created, in which illustrious visitors plant a tree and leave a message at its foot for the future.