Puente de A Senra

Roman bridge over the Termes river. It connects the parishes of Santiago de Ribarteme and San Cibrán de Ribarteme.  Located in a bucolic place with ashes, poplars and oaks; it has a wide road and remains well preserved. It is part of the Galician Cultural Heritage Catalogue with the code GA36034048 and has also be named Cultural Interest Asset (BIC in Spanish).   The bridge has a 3.50 m high semicircular arch, is 14 m long and 3.30 m wide. It was built with ashlars of different typology and fabrication, placing the better made in the arch.   As well as being interesting by itself, it is located in a valuable ethnographic ensemble, with watermills and a wayside shrine. Legend has it that the Queen Isabel of Portugal passed through it during her pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. Nowadays this route is known as “Camiño dos Frades” (Way of the friars).   Through the waterfalls and crystalline waters, the legend goes: "Every pregnant woman, when she has a complicated pregnancy, to be able to carry it forward, will have to go to the bridge and lie under it. Then a man and a woman, who will later be the godparents of the child, will go down and pour water on her abdomen. A relative must be on each side of the bridge to not allow any animal (bird, dog or cat) to cross it or the woman will abort."