If this territory is characterized by something, it is by the richness and variety of its waters, going from the thermal areas to the ponds or pools that are distributed throughout its geography.
The landscape, the practice of active tourism, the gastronomy, can be common features to many natural spaces. But it will be very difficult to find one that has such a large thermal heritage and of such quality as the territory.
The Lobios spa is located in Riocaldo , and although the river that bears that name and gives it to the population center has icy waters, as befits a mountain flow, an aquifer with a generous flow accumulates under the subsoil that emerges as a torrent of eight liters per second, from different sources, at more than 50 degrees of temperature, and one of them, at more than 71, making it the warmest in the entire Iberian Peninsula.
The Mao River pools, the Vilameá Pools, the Olas Pools or the Seima Pool , are places that can be reached on foot and are signposted.
An obligatory visit for lovers of hiking and sports is the ascent to Corga da Fecha , which offers a landscape made up of rugged mountains combined with granite stone. They are a series of waterfalls in the final stretch of the Fecha stream that overcome a drop of two hundred meters in search of the embedded bed of the Caldo river. At each jump the waters pool, forming pools where the water acquires a beautiful bluish color.
The As Conchas and Salas reservoirs offer the opportunity to practice activities such as kayaking as well as hiking or mountain biking routes in their surroundings.
Circular: Yes
Distance: 16.49 km
Difficulty: Moderate
This route is considered one of the most attractive that can be done in the Baixa Limia – Serra do Xurés Natural Park and is the result of the union of the Corga da Fecha Path, the Cabaniña do Curro Path and the old Roman road Via Nova XVIII, resulting in a magnificent circular route.
We imagine the hiker sitting in front of the map of resources of the Xurés Natural Park, in its administrative headquarters, wondering: What do I do? There is so much road to travel…!
A Cela
And the expression is literal, since if there is any road to be travelled while in Lobios, this is the reconstructed section of the Via Nova, the last great Roman road construction in our geography, very close to where today the peninsula changes its name and habitat, as is the Portela d`Home. And not so much because of its spectacular nature, but to be aware of how the organizational basis of our communications is still based on that advanced engineering that the Romans demonstrated in the first century AD.
Now, if what the traveller is looking for is spectacularity, without a doubt he has other itineraries: The Mines of As Sombras, the Corga del río Fecha, the Bowling alleys of A Cela, the high terraces of Prencibe, San Paio or Guende, in the lands of Araújo, the climb to Nosa Señora do Xurés or A Magdalena and the Pedra Furada, so hidden that in order to contemplate it the traveller must first enter Portuguese lands.
But also the enigma of the enchanted house of A Escusalla, located in lands of Aceredo and Compostela… Many are, therefore, the reasons why the traveller must make stop and board in a town that has known to reinvent itself and, from its Roman road mansion, to transform its thermal wealth the hotel bastion on which to seat its future – our future – tourist.
