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Mount O Faro

  • Nosa Senhora do Faro shrine
  • 39-metre monument to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
  • 39-metre monument to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
  • 39-metre monument to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
  • Mount O Faro
  • Nosa Senhora do Faro shrine and monument
  • Nosa Senhora do Faro shrine

The churchyard holds a 39-metre monument to the Sacred Heart of Jesus

Monte Faro's (Mount Lighthouse) name refers to its former function as a place where torches (facho, in Galician) were set alight. The fire was used to guide boats or warn of the arrival of the enemy fleet. This summit – 231 metres above sea level – is also home to a shrine with a legend, the legend of Nosa Senhora do Faro, protectress of sailors. The pilgrimage honouring her – held every 8 September – is very popular. Her image is carried in a procession from the church of San Xián de Brantuas to the shrine and then back the next day.

In times past, while the boats were out to sea, the wives of the sailors would come here to carry out the tradition of "flipping the tile" (virar a tella in Galician) of the chapel so that the direction of the wind would change or the rain would stop and their husbands would return safely to port safely.

The churchyard holds a 39-metre monument to the Sacred Heart of Jesus (1959) paid for by an emigrant to South America, Ricardo Pose, born in the same parish of Brantuas. A 133-step spiral staircase leads to the top where you can enjoy a fantastic view of this stretch of coast and the nearby beach at Niñóns...or – as far as your imagination and sight allow – of the paths you've just walked or those that still lie ahead.

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