Heritage towns in Lugo
5 towns in this province.
A hilltop monastery turned parador, a 30-metre keep, a college that earned the name "the Galician Escorial," and a river the Celts once prized for tempering sword steel, Monforte de Lemos is the historic capital of the Ribeira Sacra in Lugo province.
Most Beautiful VillagesA cathedral city in Lugo, Galicia, whose UNESCO-listed medieval centre and ancient bishop's see make it one of the landmark stops on the Camino del Norte.
The only city in the world whose complete Roman walls still stand, Lugo holds three UNESCO World Heritage sites within its ancient perimeter, the walls themselves, its Romanesque cathedral, and the Primitive Way of Saint James.
A town rebuilt stone by stone above a reservoir on the Río Miño in Lugo, Galicia, where a transplanted Romanesque church and the ghost of a submerged village together mark one of the Camino de Santiago's most unusual waypoints.
A pre-Roman mountain village in Lugo's Sierra de Ancares, its tight cluster of ancient pallozas and stone storehouses preserved so intact it earned protected status as early as 1931.