It is a completely restored stone house which is divided into three apartments, each of the houses consist of two floors, on the first floor are the kitchens and living rooms and on the second floor there are two bedrooms and a bathroom per house, the Houses are fully furnished and equipped with all necessary appliances and appliances. On the ground floor of the house there is a social room of approximately 70 square meters available to tenants, with board games, reading, etc. The houses are located within the Baixa Limia Serra do Xures Natural Park which is located southwest of the province of Orense, in the region of La Baja Limia. It covers a large territory that corresponds to the highest areas of the Councils of Entrimo, Lobios and Muíños, bordering Portugal and the Portuguese National Park of Peneda-Gerês. Together it constitutes a succession of ridges and valleys of short length and steep slopes in which the population of Requiás stands out.
The vegetation of the Park includes both Atlantic and Mediterranean species. Oak melojares abound, which is accompanied below 1000 meters by birches and at higher altitudes by wild pine and yew. Chestnuts, holly, cork oaks, arbutus and in the shrub layer, heather and piornos also appear. There are also enclaves with restocking, mainly Pinuspinaster. The riverside forests around water courses are mainly made of ash, alder, poplars, willows and hazelnuts. Among the existing fauna can be mentioned the raptors of open field, like the common kestrel and the buzzard or the eaglet ash. Also eagles, culebreras and retrievers fly over the area. Among mammals cite the presence of a reduced wolf colony, along with other species such as rabbit, roe deer, fox, otter or wild boar.
The environment is made up of small villages, where ancestral customs are still preserved. Roman legions passed through here to conquer the tribe of the callaici, that is, of the Galatians. There was no border at that time and it would still take time. The same river with two variants. Limia for the Galicians who see him born in the sources of Antela and Lima for the Portuguese who see him die in Viana do Castelo. The entire area is dominated by river courses. Numerous tributaries accompany the Limia that hosts three large reservoirs: Salas (Requiás) As Conchas and Lindoso. The latter with dam in Portuguese territory and Galician water. However, this is a dry line because it is not the rivers but the mountains that, as we get closer, define the horizon with its saw profile. They are unmistakable with their characteristic peaks as castles. By altitude, they conserve the lowest glacial circuses of the Iberian Peninsula. From north to south, the Serra do Laboreiro and Queguas; the mountains of O Quinxo; the high of Santa Eufemia, already a neighbor of the Serra do Xurés that stands at the highest point of all these mountains in the peak of A Nevosa (1,539m); further west the Serra do Pisco in (Requisa) and further away the Serra da Pena and the lands of the Mixed Couto that once belonged neither to Spain nor to Portugal.
The rugged rocks attended the hunting of the last bear of these latitudes and today witness the return of the Xurés goat through a plan to reintroduce the wild goat. To preserve all diversity, one of the first community experiences of cross-border collaboration was launched. By rank, the Peneda-Gerês National Park (Portugal) together with the Baixa Limia-Serra do Xurés Natural Park form a single natural jewel of this old and new Gallaecia. The Portuguese part conserves very leafy areas with large trees that were formerly used to navigate as sleepers, frames and famous masts in the seven seas. FLORA: Large bushes with some endemisms such as Iris boissieri. Robledales and Mediterranean elements of cork oaks (Quercus suber) and madroño (Arbutus unedo). In the highest areas it is accompanied by wild pine (Pinus sylvestris) and yew (Taxus baccata).
FAUNA: Wolf herds (Canis lupus) and large prey: Roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) and Mountain goat in a reintroduction program. In the high plains and in semi-freedom, the horse called Galician Pony or Garrano (Equus cavallus). Sporadically, Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos ROUTES: The Baixa Limia-Serra do Xurés Natural Park is one of the protected areas with the greatest historical, ethnographic and environmental personality of the autonomous community. There are hiking trails that in some cases mimic the sections of the Via XVIII or Vía Nova that linked the Augustinian cities of Braga and Astorga. Road milestones can still be touched in the Miliarios area, nine kilometers from Lobios on the climb that leads to Portela do Home. From the north is one of the entrances to the Portuguese National Park of Peneda-Gerês. To get there, it runs in sight of the Caldo River. The thermal benefits to which his name refers can still be enjoyed today. A little further up you receive the brave stream of A Date, which flows into a waterfall. Full of rain is the highest and most impressive in Galicia. The area of roads and stops is evidenced by the site of Aquis Querquennis, a Roman camp in Bande, on the banks of the As Conchas reservoir. The site is being conditioned as a Romanization museum. In the same municipality you can visit the first church of Galicia with a Visigoth plant or it will be better to say Sueva, in Santa Comba. Around the Salas reservoir, in the municipality of Muíños, there are also hiking routes that are completed with an archaeological route.
A local road from the municipal capital in Mugueimes will lead us to the edge of its waters, with excellent possibilities for water sports, and to the megalithic remains of Casiña da Moura and Casola do Foxo. The native cattle perfectly adapted to the difficulties of the sierra is the Cauca cow, miniatures with long horns. They have been in danger of extinction. A good place to observe them is in the town hall of Entrimo. Specifically, accessing from the municipal capital in A Terrachá to Olelas, one of the most original villages in the province of Ourense ...
The climatic diversity imposes, in the Baixa Limia-Serra do Xurés Natural Park, two climates and, consequently, two different vegetations. One of the great attractions of this park is its landscape variety. As for the vegetation, this space is located between two major regions of European flora: the Euro-Siberian, the Atlantic province, and the Mediterranean, the carpetano-Leonese province. Therefore, the vegetation alternates deciduous forests, characteristic of humid climatic zones, with those of evergreen. We find, then, melojo oak, birches (below 1,000 meters), chestnut, holly or heather. Among the fauna we must mention the kestrel, the buzzard, the viper and some wolves. In addition, there are rabbits, roe deer and wild boar. The inhabitants of the area take advantage of the land through pastures and forage crops, alternating them with rye fallows.
For lovers of natural and cultural values Vegetation: Transition zone between two large European floral regions: the Eurosiberian (Atlantic province) and the Mediterranean (Carpetano-Leon province). For this reason, the vegetation alternates deciduous tree forests, characteristic of humid climatic conditions, with those of evergreen, more adapted to the lack of water during certain periods of the year. The most widespread plant formation is the deciduous forest, with oak (Quercus Pyrenaica) and birch trees (Betula celtiberian), with the presence of madroño and holly at the highest heights. There are several plant endemisms, among them Prunus Iusitanica, a species that colonizes the ravines and other areas of high humidity.
Fauna: Mammals: There is a recovery program underway of the horse (Equus cavallus) called Gari Pony Galego, which lives in semi-freedom regime in the upper parts (Leboreiro, O Quinxo, Santa Eufemia, Xurés ou Pisco). The fauna is very varied. Among amphibians and reptiles we can mention the rabilarga salamander, the Iberian lizard and the viperine snake. The two reservoirs located in the park are the habitat of important bird populations. Small diving, mallard, grebes and eaglet are some of them. There is also the presence of golden eagle, alcotán, azor, hawk, culebrera eagle, common kestrel, cuckoo, picapinos beak and swift. In addition to hunting species such as wild boar, roe deer, partridge, hare or rabbit, mammals are represented by wolf. common shrew, otter nougat, gine, wildcat and weasel. In the water courses the trout appears.