Pazo de Esposende

Galicia


This 16th-century mansion in the Avia valley, a few kilometres north of Ribadavia, boasts appealingly comfortable, up-to-date rooms with subtle lighting and full-wall murals of local scenes, but retains its thick stone walls, handsome pillared courtyard and charming views over the village and countryside. The welcome is friendly, the flowers brilliantly colourful, and the breakfast good and filling.


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