Discover Taramundi: Mills, Knives and Hiking Trails

At the Mazonovo Museum of Mills, visitors can operate some of the mills by hand. The museum also shows the technological development of various mills over the course of history.

Culture

The Knife-Making Museum has a workshop open to visitors, where they can observe the current production of knives and pocketknives under the CQ Taramundi brand through a glazed gallery. At the Museo de la Cuchillería in Pardiñas, visitors can attend a demonstration of pocketknife production.

The Ethnographic Museum of Esquíos displays rural tools used for woodworking, basket weaving, wooden-shoe making and blacksmithing. It has a blacksmith's workshop where the famous M. Lombardía knives continue to be made.

The cultural sites focus on different aspects: Mazonovo combines hands-on experience with the history of technology, while the workshops in Taramundi and Pardiñas present knife-making as a process that can be observed in a demonstration. In Esquíos, by contrast, several forms of rural work are presented side by side, complemented by the blacksmith's workshop that is still in operation. This makes it possible to organise visits according to the desired approach: getting hands-on, following production processes or viewing tools and crafts in their ethnographic context.

On the accommodation offer pages for a holiday apartment in Taramundi, travel dates, room category and cancellation policies are listed separately alongside the selection of local themes. This keeps accommodation details and the focuses on mills, knife-making, ethnographic heritage, and paths through nature and villages as separate considerations.

History

The ethnographic complex of Os Teixóis is an example of pre-industrial heritage connected with the culture and landscape of Taramundi. It dates from the 18th century and is based on the comprehensive use of the river's water power. Access to the complex is only possible as part of a guided tour.

The village of Taramundi and the former rectory were the setting in the 1980s for a pioneering pilot project for rural tourism in Spain. The historical perspective thus extends from an 18th-century complex to a project from the 1980s.

Nature

Taramundi has routes for hiking and cycling. The Ruta de los Ferreiros (PR-AS 18) connects villages that preserve the tradition of ironworking in Taramundi.

For planning purposes, you can distinguish between a walking tour, a cycling tour and a circular route; in terms of subject matter, water, villages, nature and ethnography are presented side by side. The routes therefore differ not only in their mode of transport, but also in how their themes are connected: villages and ironworking are at the forefront on the Ruta de los Ferreiros, while the Ruta del Agua links nature, water and ethnography.

The Ruta del Agua (PR-AS 17) in Taramundi is a circular route that combines nature and ethnography and leads past waterfalls, mills and traditional villages. It includes a signposted detour to the waterfall of the Salgueira River amid native vegetation. The route runs through the Río Eo, Oscos e Terras de Burón Biosphere Reserve.

For the overarching travel overview: Taramundi.