With the arrival of a new year, it's time to look back and review the 365 days that have passed.
2019 in A Pobra do Brollón stood out for many and varied reasons. In these images we have selected some of them.
We witnessed and supported the birth of Wineries of Memory, a pioneering ethnoarchaeology project in Vilachá de Salvadur. The first major scientific study of the origins of the Ribeira Sacra is being carried out in our municipality and, in addition, everyone can follow the progress of the project through a web-series.
For its part, a new and successful archaeological campaign was carried out in the Castro de San Lourenzo, in Cereixa, where the team accompanied by volunteers from an international work camp found a new skeleton in an excellent state of preservation.
On a cultural level, throughout the year several initiatives filled Guimaralia with music and cinema. In the summer, we enjoyed ‘Cos pés na terraza’, a series of concerts in bars. In the autumn, the Foliadas Guímaras arrived, a series of itinerant foliadas through the parishes of the municipality in collaboration with the Samoeiro Music School.
Several film cycles also provided the opportunity to watch films and documentaries in A Pobra... Summer cinema for adults and children; a rural-themed film cycle, a series of documentaries to debate ‘great issues of our time’, and to culminate the year, the charity screening of the Galician film of the year, ‘O que arde’.
In the tourism sector, the summer guided tours – to the Castro de San Lourenzo, the Cova das Choias and Vilachá – were once again very popular. This year, an extended version of the visit was offered in Vilachá, incorporating the new knowledge acquired thanks to the Adegas da Memoria project.
The residents of Guimarães were also able to do some tourism with ‘Get to know your Way, step by step’, an initiative within the Xunta's O Teu Xacobeo plan in which we are walking the Winter Way over ten Sundays.
In 2019, the City Council of A Pobra do Brollón continues to be committed to responsible and sustainable waste management. We obtained the first compost bags from the community composters, and we introduced the mobile clean point.
Regarding works and improvements, mention can be made of the improvement of several roads in the municipality, and also of Rúa da Peza in the center of A Pobra do Brollón.
On the occasion of 25N, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, our city council joined the ‘In black against violence’ campaign. A social awareness initiative that seeks a collective response to reject gender violence and sexist murders.
It is also worth highlighting the presentation of a new municipal magazine, The Water of the Mollón, with a print run of 1000 copies and luxury collaborations such as the poets Olga Novo and Noa Moreira, or the archaeologist Xurxo Ayán.
And of course, in this year that is about to pass, we celebrate the ‘classic’ annual events: the Carnival and the Bear of Salcedo, the Vilachá Wine Fair, the As Cores do Outono festival, the Xuntanza de Veciños, the Cantos de Taberna and the Guimara Medieval Fair. In this last event, the poet of Vilarmao Olga Novo presented unpublished medieval documentation that identifies Lope de Ferreiros as the individual behind the founding myth of the Guimaralia.
We hope that the year 2020 will be just as intense and with many more reasons to continue building the Guimaralia we want together!
