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Valledor Palace

Valledor Palace

Old palace, today divided into 3 buildings, located in the centre of Vegadeo.

It is currently occupied by houses number 1, 3 and 5 in Calle Armando Cotarelo. In the past it was a building with three dwellings known as the Valledor Palace, with access from Callejón del Trobo and a large courtyard at the back for the stables. It had a chapel attached to it between the space now occupied by a bank and the adjoining building known as Casa Pérez. At the end of the last century, it underwent modifications until the current configuration of three completely independent buildings.

Its owner, D. Jacinto Pablo Valledor y Presno, lord of the jurisdiction of Montealegre, commissioned the building in 1783 to the Master Architect D. Alejandro Antonio Pico y Fernández, a native of Ribadeo. The site where it was built, on the Llano de la Vega, as the place was formerly known, was a muddy area and would not allow a safe foundation to be laid, so on 1 April of the same year, permission was requested from Castropol Town Council to cut down the oak trees needed to make the foundations, and this permission was granted on condition that for every oak tree that was cut down, three would be planted.

The Seminary of Education of the Vega de Ribadeo was located in the premises of this palace between 1742 and 1765.