Pazo de Oca (Spain) Reviews
Newest Review: ... hot, with just a rustle of breeze to animate the foliage. You gain no immediate impression of the scale of the grounds as, ... more
... having paid your Euro4 to enter, you pass directly through from the main entrance to the Pazo into the first courtyard beyond. This is arranged in classic parterre style with clipped box hedges around the borders and a central fountain. Such courtyards, bare-pathed and enclosed by stone buildings, can sometimes seem rather austere, but here the hard outlines are softened by planting: shrubs and trees behind the box, star jasmine climbing up the arched rear of the manor, petunias in pots. Descending down steps ...more
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Pazo de Oca (Spain): And that's without seeing the camellias (1844 words)by - written on 14/01/12 (Very useful, 150 readings)
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My initial reactions on arriving at the Pazo de Oca were mixed. I instantly took to the buildings and their setting, at the centre of a tiny hamlet in the hills of inland Galicia. Facing us across an open green square was an elegant baroque stone chapel with ornate twin bell-towers, from which elevated walkways, supported by arches, stretched off to either side. The one to the right became a balcony where it joined, and could be accessed from, the first floor of the 18th-century Pazo (manor-house) itself. The manor's frontage occupied the entire side of the square, mostly two-storeyed but rising to a three-storey crenelated tower at its corner. Opposite stood an ... Read the complete review
