J. Thorne, Author at feelSacra

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Sober–Amandi: The Murals Behind the Wine

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.

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Searas, a Chantada music group, on growing up in the Ribeira Sacra that existed before the label, and on the heritage tourism hasn’t saved.

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Tatiana Alonso and Davoud Gerami are turning an abandoned village above the Miño into a working creative residency in Ribeira Sacra.

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An 11 km circular above the embalsed Miño: cork-oak microclimate, a forty-metre waterfall, a pre-Roman castro and the village of Marce.

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A parish-scale loop around the Cistercian monastery of Ferreira de Pantón — vineyards, a medicinal spring, river pools and a Romanesque detour.

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Monforte de Lemos is Ribeira Sacra’s operational centre — railway junction, seigneurial capital, and the town the whole territory depends on.

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The Belesar vineyards loop in Ribeira Sacra: 10.5 km through Milla de Oro terraces, the riverside hamlet of Pincelo, and the Miño’s quiet south bank.