The Pazo Quinteiro da Cruz has gardens designed at the end of the 19th century by the gardener and landscaper of French origin Dorgambide, a garden made up of a multitude of both foreign and indigenous species.
Some highlights about Pazo Quinteiro da Cruz in Ribadumia, Pontevedra, Galicia (Spain)
Garden of International Excellence awarded by the International Camellia Society, 2018
Botanical Prize 2014 Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid
Rúa Cruz 88, 36635 Ribadumia
Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain
Coordinates: 42.53143, -8.72864
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The gardens of the Pazo Quinteiro da Cruz have an 18th century manor house, two granaries (one made of stone 15 meters long x 2.5 meters wide from the 18th century and the other made of stone and wood from the 19th century), stone crosses from the 18th century and 16th century, a 16th century chapel with a baptismal font from the end of the 12th century, a laundry room, crenelated dovecote, porch with a press, “lareira” (fireplace) and farm implements catalogued in the European viticultural heritage and historical-artistic heritage of Galicia, baroque fountains, statues and sundials, as well as a traditional winery and a production cellar.
In this enclosure the reform of the current Statute of Autonomy of Galicia was forged. It is part of the historical gardens of Galicia and is a garden of International Excellence. The first Galician poetry congress took place, different literary, painting, cultural, experiential, and sustainability encounters have been held over the years.
A garden with the soul of a museum where the Forest of Words is located, inaugurated by the Brazilian writer Nélida Piñón in 2014, an oriental garden surrounded by bamboo. It has a collection of camellias with Augmented Reality.
The Pazo Quinteiro da Cruz has gardens designed at the end of the 19th century by the gardener and landscaper of French origin Dorgambide, a garden made up of a multitude of both foreign and indigenous species.
In the years 1975-1980, its owner, Victoriano Piñeiro Acosta, restored the existing flora in accordance with historical tradition, and added a magnificent collection of camellias to the existing ones from the 19th century and other plants imported from different parts of the world. The gardens are of high botanical and ornamental interest, where a multitude of species grow, both indigenous and foreign, introduced with a landscaping and ornamental criterion over the years.
The gardens are surrounded by vineyards and a native forest, hundreds of species grow, many tropical and exotic, although the queen of the garden is the camellia. Today more than 6,000 specimens of Camellias flourish of more than 2,000 different varieties of 90 species) that coexist with other imported plants with more than 500 species from the 5 continents.
In 2008 a Tea Garden was built, the first Camellia sinensis tea plantation in Spain, a project with permaculture and the circular economy, a very productive plantation with harvests from the end of March to the beginning of October. Ecological cultivation; with completely artisanal collection and processing, with its own methodology based on Chinese and Japanese tradition.