Ethnography

A CAMBOA

A CAMBOA

Discover an ancient stone fishing structure from the 16th century, visible only at low tide. A historical testimony to monastic ingenuity.
It is a fishing system in the form of a stone structure built in the s. XVI, by the cistercian monks. You can only contemplate during the low sea. At present only the lower structure is maintained, due to a great storm that hit the Galician coast in 1979. The construction runs through the inlet of the port, the passage in the central area was closed with a wooden gate and was used as fishing system, so that when the tide rose, the door remained open and when it started to descend it closed, leaving the fish and shellfish between the beach and the camboa.