PAZO-MUSEO QUIÑONES DE LEÓN
The also known as Pazo de Castrelos is a institution belonging to the Council of Vigo (Pontevedra), placed in the real green lung of the city. It´s history is allready documented in the fifteenth century as a antique fortress, due to the incursions of the pirates on the estuarie, and even more precisely, for the war with Portugal, although it was rebuilt in the seventeenth century.

El aspecto actual de la obra se completó con las torres y la fachada corrida de clara inspiración renacentista, heredera de la escuela castellano leonesa de Valladolid. En 1883, la marquesa de Valladares, entronca con el marquesado de Alcedo tras su matrimonio con Fernando Quiñones de León. Se procede entonces a ampliar la estructura pacega imprimiéndole un claro gusto inglés tanto en la vivienda como en los jardines.

The actual appearance of the site was completed with the towers and the runned facade, of clearly Renaissance inspiration, heritage of the castilian-leonese school from Valladolid. In 1883, the Marchioness of Valladares marries Fernando Quiñones de León, Marquis of Alcedo. Then they proceed to the extention of the vila?s structure, impressing it with a marked english taste, reflected in the residence and the gardens.

A walk in the garden…

The garden was created in times of the I Marquis of Alcedo, having proof about the first camellias being planted by Marques Loureiro, in 1860, brought from his nursery in Portugal. It was continued by the IX Marquis of Valladares, with english staff. In the 70's, the orcherd was created under the management of Ángel Ilarri Gimeno, followed by different actions that took place until the 90's.

The garden has three levels. The top,"A Rosaleda" (rose garden), starts at a yard covered with a metallic shell that used to be the greenhouse. The middle one is the french garden, with a box hedge almost labyrinthic. On the lowest level we can see the english garden, also known as the "Tea Meadow", furrowed by two path ways, that have a duck pond in the middle with a little island in which you can see a scale model of the vila.