Civil Architecture

Past and future converge on Lalín. Medieval bridges of stone like " Ponte Taboada " or Ponte dos Cabalos" coexist with the modern glass architecture of “Castro Tecnolóxico”. The first astronomic observatory of Galicia is also considered in the scientific vanguard . It was constructed by Don Ramon M ª Aller in 1924, and, nowadays, there are guided visits and activities of sky observation.

As example of industrial architecture, the building of Rodís's paper mill, founded around year 1850 that nowadays is a private housing.

In Lalín Municipality there are 30 Mainhouses, constructions most typical of the Galician nobility. Some of them, without its inhabitants, stand the test of time with difficulty, looking to “Pazo de Liñares” that rised like the phoenix and shows all its magnificence to visitors. Others preserve its function of housing, or they turned into rural establishments that receive its privileged guests.

To enjoy popular architecture, it is enought just to walk along rural areas and to admire functional constructions as mills of water, barns, washers or stone structures. All of them create the soul of our landscape.

Technological Hill-Fort (Castro Tecnolóxico)

Ultramodern building built by Luís M. Mansilla and Emilio Tuñón, winners, in the year 2007, of the prize of contemporary architecture “Mies van der Rohe”, awarded by The European Union.

It was inaugurated on September 20, 2013. In the same year, the building got to be in Biennial show XII of Architecture and Urbanism of Spain, in the section dedicated to civic symbols.

The construction tries to reminds us, with its circular forms, both in the exterior and in the interior, pre-Roman constructions, very abundant in the territory of municipality where there are catalogued more of 30.

It has in its dependences different departments of the town hall of Lalín, local police, state police and the offices of O.R.A.L. or “Castrodeza”, interpretation center of hill-forts.

Schedule
Monday to Friday: 08:00 to 15:00
Address
Praza de Galicia, 1 - 36500 Lalín
Phone
986 787 060
Email
lalin@lalin.gal
Website
Coordinates
42.66077, -8.11659
Imagen Technological Hill-Fort (Castro Tecnolóxico)