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Pazo Quinteiro da Cruz
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.
Pazo Quinteiro da Cruz
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Pazo Quinteiro da Cruz
General information
Some highlights about Pazo Quinteiro da Cruz in Ribadumia, Pontevedra, Galicia (Spain)
Awards
Garden of International Excellence awarded by the International Camellia Society, 2018
Botanical Prize 2014 Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid
Type of historic garden
Private residences
Size
70.000 m2
Location
Rúa Cruz 88, 36635 Ribadumia
Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain
Coordinates: 42.53143, -8.72864
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Timetables
Open every day of the year by appointment
Tickets
Check pazoquinteirodacruz.es
Contact information
Web: pazoquinteirodacruz.es
Email: info@pazoquinteirodacruz.es
Téléphone: 0034 619 110 806, 0034 635 592 215
Pazo Quinteiro da Cruz
Natural environment
The Quinteiro da Cruz pazo is located in the Salnés Valley, between the estuaries of Pontevedra and Arousa, in the heart of the Rías Baixas and just 20 km from the city of Pontevedra, 45 km from Vigo and 56 km from Santiago de Compostela.
The Rías Baixas are characterized by the mild climate, the fertility of the land and the richness of the sea, where the marine farming parks are located for the production of mussels, oysters, clams, scallops, etc. Shellfish being a key element of the local economy.
Albariño wine
This landscape, with rounded coasts where mighty rivers flow creating protected valleys, presents a scattered habitat dotted with farmlands, where vine cultivation predominates, for the production of “Albariño” wine, under the Rías Baixas designation of origin. A space in which nature and history come together, giving rise to one of the most beautiful areas of Galicia. Its heritage wealth is evident in monasteries, pazos, churches and fishing villages full of charm. A kilometer away is a Celtic fort from the 3rd century BC. C. to the 1st century A.D. "O Monte do Castro"
Pazo Quinteiro da Cruz
Historical background
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.
Garden of International Excellence
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.
Pazo Quinteiro da Cruz
Description
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.
Collection of camellias
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.
Tea Garden
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.
Pazo Quinteiro da Cruz
Chronology
The main reforms of the garden area -designed in the 19th century by the French landscaper “Dorgambide” - were carried out in the 70s of the 20th century by Victoriano Piñeiro Acosta and Maruxa Lago Paulos, parents of the current owners. They were in charge of recovering the existing flora in the garden, promoting the collection of camellias from the 19th century and creating the great collection that the botanical park now has, with more than 2000 varieties of about 80 species and other plants imported from different parts of the world, Albariña grape vineyards and, in 2008, the Camellia sinensis plantation, the Tea Garden, was made.
Pazo Quinteiro da Cruz, as a good representative of the singular spaces for self-consumption that were once the Galician pazos, is a property that beyond its cultural heritage houses a production of honey, Albariño wine with RiasBaixas Designation of Origin -100% monovarietal -, spirits and from its tea plantation, the first plantation in Spain, different types of artisan teas are made, with their own method, based on traditional Chinese and Japanese methodology. Different camellia and wine natural cosmetic products are also made, camellia oil from cold pressing the seeds of camellias.
It has an application with augmented reality to disseminate and publicize the camellias of the Pazo Quinteiro da Cruz Botanical Garden. Nature, botanical heritage and new technologies come together in Camelias RA, a mobile application that generates a technological experience in a physical environment of the real world, where the elements are superimposed or combined with virtual elements to create a mixed reality in real time, that allows in an innovative, creative and fresh way to enjoy the flowering of the camellia throughout the year.
In the Pazo Quinteiro da Cruz, both in its facilities and in the gardens and vineyards, visits, events and experiences are organized.