+34 982 390 959
info@galicianrustic.com
C/Jose Pardo, 25
27370 Rabade (Lugo)
Menu

Month: June 2016

HEROIC VITICULTURE, PLEASURE FOR THE GODS

28 June, 2016
| No Comments
| Categories: Cooking, Food, Natural, Nature, River, Views, Wine

                          Romans planted the vineyards thousands of years ago. Since then, the River Sil Canyon takes care of their green properties without rest. Since then, people of Ribeira Sacra, in the South of Galicia, practices an incredible way of producing wine: heroic viticulture is the official name in all the world. And in this area of Galicia it has the qualification of being the most risky of all. Working on more than 30% slopes. No machinery, not even animals to help. Hours of selecting grapes and carrying them on...

Show more

ARDE LUCUS, A CITY BURNS IN FIESTAS HALFWAY THROUGH JUNE EVERY YEAR SINCE IT GOT TO TWO THOUSAND YEARS OF AGE

18 June, 2016
| No Comments
| Categories: City, Fiesta, Tradition

Lucus Augusti, which means “the grove of Augustus”, this is the name that the ancient Romans gave to the city of Lugo. A city that is proud of its past, of its culture and its history.  Every year just before summer comes it is transformed into a city of the Roman Empire. With its camps, its markets, parades, circus spectacles of all sorts. ARDE LUCUS lasts for a few days only but it is well worthwhile looking back twenty centuries into the past and to integrate oneself into the multitude of more than a million people who come to transform...

Show more