Our Meetings in "Río da Fraga" have been designed with the purpose of offering our guests and groups of excursionists the possibility to become familiar with the Galician popular culture and our environment in a playful way but not lacking precision.

"A Fraga" river goes through the village of Moaña from north to south, from its source at "Monte Gagán" till its mouth in "A Xunqueira" beach. Through the years it has been essential for the economy and subsistence of the people living around, for apart from guaranteeing the irrigation of the land in the banks and the water needed for the household chores, it provided the power to make work the numerous watermills built along its course. Recently the government has restored some of these watermills, witnesses and also protagonists of a way of life, the life of our ancestors, which was on the verge of falling in oblivion. Such a wealth offers us the possibility to become familiar with the everyday experience of those people who forged our traditions, to try to understand them and, maybe, to understand us a bit better.

ACTIVITIES PLAN

  • FARMING WORK: visiting a farm where we will watch how the fields are worked with an ox cart.
  • THE GRINDING: visiting a watermill where the miller will show us how it works.
  • FOLKLORE: telling of popular legends about life around the mill. There will be songs and traditional music based on the grinding.
  • TRACK GAMES.
  • WORKSHOP: building and putting up a nest.
  • NATURE: planting indigenous trees.
  • ETHNOGRAPHIC EXPOSITION: visiting a "quinteiro", typical field where different crops are grown.
  • AUDIOVISUAL PROYECTION of the route taken.
  • TRADITIONAL GAMES.

PICADERO "A LAGOA"

Another activity we could take in A'Fraga Rural is horse riding, in orde to discover all the surprises awaiting us in the tracks of our hills through relaxing horse rides.

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