Casa Santo Estevo 

The Ribeira Sacra is the gorgeous area where the Rio Sil joins the Miño, overlapping both Ourense and Lugo, though Ourense is a little more convenient for exploring it. This fine page is from the website of "a Casa Rural in the heart of Galicia, the Ribeira Sacra, (the sacred river). The area is known for wine, it’s ancient churches, tranquillity and solitude. We can offer various activities like walking and the hire of mountain bikes."
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Ribeira Sacra 

There are two Ribeira Sacras: the historical area around the confluence of the Rivers Sil and Miño, overlapping the provinces of Ourense and Lugo, and the wine denominación de origen which more or less coincides with it geographically. As the former, it's a beautiful, rural area of mountains and valleys, castles and monasteries, ravines and woods, whereas as a D.O. it is surprisingly new, not much more than twenty years old, which is amazing considering that wine has been made there for something like two thousand years (typically Galician wine, where the red is testimonial, this is white wine country, especially made from the Albariño grape. And local wine, for 90% of the production never leaves Galicia). The link goes to the schizophrenic website of, on the one hand, the regulating board of the wine region, this part being entertaining and informative but not available in English, and on the other, a tourism consortium for the area, this part being a tourist information site which is also entertaining and informative (and useful) and is available in English.
Added on: 26-Oct-2007 | hits: 160
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