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Pazo de Oca

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Pazo de Oca
Pazo de Oca
Pazo de Oca
Pazo de Oca
Pazo de Oca
Pazo de Oca
Pazo de Oca
Pazo de Oca
Pazo de Oca
Pazo de Oca
Pazo de Oca
Pazo de Oca
Pazo de Oca
Pazo de Oca
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Pazo de Oca
Pazo de Oca
Pazo de Oca
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Pazo de Oca
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Sunday9am - 8:30pm
Monday9am - 8:30pm
Tuesday9am - 8:30pm
Wednesday9am - 8:30pm
Thursday9am - 8:30pm
Friday9am - 8:30pm
Saturday9am - 8:30pm


A Pazo is a type of Galician traditional house. Similar to a manor house, pazos are usually located in the countryside, as former residences of important people in the community . They were of crucial importance in the 17th to 19th centuries, related to rural and monastic architecture and the system of feudal organization, and they constituted a type of local management unit around which the life of the villagers revolved. Over time they become the social symbol and refuge of the noble class, which Otero Pedrayo portrayed in his novels in early 20th century. The pazo, as a traditional civil architectural structure, had associated a social network: the servants of the nobleman and the tributaries of the domain, who themselves came to live on the grounds of the pazo . A pazo usually consists of a main building surrounded by gardens, a dovecote and often include outbuildings such as small chapels for religious celebrations. The word pazo is a cognate of stately palace, and comes from the Latin palatiu. As a curiosity, the Portuguese word, close to the Galician language, to say palace is paço . In this regard, the Paço Imperial in Rio de Janeiro, built in the 18th century, is an example of the Portuguese counterpart of this type of building.
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