People
The faces behind the place — makers, keepers, newcomers, lifers.
The Grandson of Ribeiraos: Roberto Regal and Enonatur
Roberto Regal, grandson of four ribeiraos, makes wine as a bridge between people — and a defence of the Ribeira Sacra he was raised in.
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6 MIN
Panadería Carlos, Taboada: Nothing but Yeast and Flour
He began at 22, carrying flour sacks for a boss. Since 1996 he has baked in his own wood oven in Taboada, so his children answer to nobody.
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6 MIN
O Fogón: a churrasquería nobody inherited
Vanesa Rodríguez reopened O Fogón in Cereixa twelve days after it shut, adding a weekday menú del día for the workers with nowhere to eat.
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6 MIN
The Goats Knew First: José Luis Pombar and Monte Ceo
Raw goat’s cheese and a dead twelfth-century hamlet: José Luis Pombar left tech for the hills where Santo Estevo’s monks grazed goats.
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6 MIN
The People Who Keep the Paths
In Nogueira de Ramuín, four neighbours reopened by hand the roads the mountain was swallowing. Ten years on, the work stops. For now.
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6 MIN
The Bees Taught Her to Read the Land: Melsacra
Christina and her brother Carlos returned to the Ribeira Sacra to reconnect with their roots and the beekeeping their grandfathers left them.
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6 MIN
The Forest Just Grows Here: Emmely and Ecofinca Tanquián
One of Galicia’s oldest permaculture projects, in Pantón: thirty-five years of working with the land, building community, and staying put.
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6 MIN
Doa, the Muralist Who Returns the Gaze to Plants
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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6 MIN
A Bet on the Rural: Isabel Costas and Tres Fuciños
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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6 MIN
Ouro de Quiroga and the Olive Oil Galicia Almost Lost
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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6 MIN
Searas: Continuity Has a Sound
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.