Easy to get to both from our town, because we have indicators from our Town Hall, or on the road (not the road) that leads to A Cañiza Ponteareas as 6 kilometers in Vilasobroso, we find very informative panels clear that show your location.

Visiting hours are from 10am. to 13h. and 16h. 19h. every day of the week except Monday, which can be confirmed by calling 986 65 43 05. There is room for nature and forest park.

Once in, you will find a castle full of history, whose origins date back to the ninth century, when Bermudo II took refuge in during the battle of Arenaria Portela (today Vilasobroso) between his supporters and troops of Ramiro II, King of Leon. In times of Alfonso V was conquered and sacked by Al-Mansur, and later in the year 1095, the Counts of Galicia, Don Dona Urraca and Raymond of Burgundy, granted the manor of the Bishop of Tui Sobrosa, Ader.

The strange thing is that the very dona Urraca was imprisoned in the castle by the Galician nobles after her second marriage to Alfonso I of Aragon, fled by a passage to the river Tea. On the death of the queen, nobles proclaimed king of Galicia Galicia in Sobrosa his son Alfonso, who went down in history as the Emperor Alfonso VII, after being crowned in 1135. However, it was not until the year 1396 when this manor Marquis led a title since Don Juan I of Castile granted the jurisdiction to Pedro Ruiz Sarmiento, M. de Ribadavia, becoming head the castle and lordship Salvaterra County .

naturais Espazos recreational areas and this is when he became an impregnable fortress. In the fifteenth century castle was destroyed by Sobrosa Irmandiños, the current configuration is due to the orderly reconstruction by Diego García Sarmiento. Because of the rivalry of the Soutomaior Sarmiento, suffered the siege of Pedro Alvarez de Soutomaior, Count of Camina, better known as Pedro Madruga, that bite from neighboring besieged the fort with 5,000 infantry and 1,000 cavalry.

She finally had to retire without getting conquer the fortress. In the year 1613 Philip III appointed Earl of Salvaterra Soutomaior Diego Sarmiento, Lord of Sobrosa and Mendoza, and twelve years after Sarmiento Felipe IV granted the title of Marquis of Vilasobroso. Until the eighteenth century was head of a broad jurisdiction, but later lost its defensive role and fell into neglect until it was purchased in 1923 Carrera Alejo Munoz and restored it with his own fortune. In 1981 it was purchased Ponteareas City Council to spend on ethnographic museum and park.

naturaisSu Espazos recreational areas and is building itself a castle-fortress, with strong walls and three separate bodies. Two may be for rooms and lounges, the remainder being the Tower of Homage, located in the highest area of land and rectangular, with thick walls and crowned with battlements and a guardhouse defensive at every turn. To this, add that the castle has two levels, available on the top floor of a parapet (round slide), by which we can walk.

Finally, it is noted for being noteworthy honor door of the castle, led by the coat of arms of the Sarmiento and Valladares, historically related, and all furniture and overhead time we can see inside, what makes it stop only required for those who come to our town.