J. Thorne, Author at feelSacra

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A Festival Built Into the Rock: Fest Clásico Ribeira Sacra

Free chamber music every August in Ribeira Sacra’s rural churches. Festival and academy based in a restored hydroelectric village at Os Peares.

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Muralist Doa Ocampo on Reforestando, botanical activism and why Ribeira Sacra should be cared for its residents, not only its visitors.

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The Sil canyon everyone shoots looking down, driven slowly and read upward — forest birds, cliff raptors, four rim viewpoints at the edge.

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Isabel Costas raises porco celta free on the monte in Carballedo. A talk on rural work, roots, and why Ribeira Sacra is not a postcard.

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A quiet birding drive down the Miño’s north bank: black kites, harriers, and a hidden canyon meander, none of the Sil-gorge crowds.

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Julio and Suso of Ouro de Quiroga on the native olive varieties they’re recovering and the wine they make outside the Ribeira Sacra DO.

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Five Romanesque parishes on Sober’s inland plateau — 16th-century murals, a Templar trace, and the canyon view behind Amandi’s wine reputation.

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Four Romanesque churches between Chantada and Cabo do Mundo: a country road shaped by the Pórtico da Gloria workshop of Maestro Mateo.

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A plateau loop through five Romanesque parish churches in Taboada — Templar trace, seigneurial murals, the largest church in the concello.

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Five Romanesque stops in Pantón: Pombeiro’s Cluniac priory, Atán’s murals, singular Eiré, San Fiz, and the living monastery of Ferreira.