Description
Founded around 1490 by Xoán Mariño de Sotomayor, it gained importance towards the end of the 18th. Century, thanks to Catalan businessmen who set up the salted meat industries here, in which the entire village of Vilaxoán was involved.
To this day, the traditional fishing community has been preserved, with its picturesque and gaily coloured houses, such as the Pazo Sobrán, which was built upon the foundations of an ancient monastry dating from the 11th. Century.
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VILAXOÁN SEAFARER TOWN
Mostrar/Ocultar transcripciónDID YOU KNOW… that the seafarer town of Vilaxoán was founded in 1490 by Mr. Xoán Mariño of Sotomayor?
It was an important place for Catalonian businessmen who settled in the town of Vilaxoán to boost the salting factories at the end of the 18th century.
A great part of the inhabitant in this town proceeded to work in these new salting factories.
From the 19th century onwards, new fishing factories and gears were introduced in Vilaxoán.
The seafarer district attracts the attention due to its colourful houses, the church and the Pazo de Sobrán which is supposed to have been built over the remains of a monastery from the 11th century.