Can I host in Pazos in The Way?
If you do The Way of St James you can host in Manors inside the Galician territory. We give you more information.
WHAT IS A PAZO:
The pazo is a tip of traditional Galician house, with manor features, normally it is based in the field, in the past the people who lived there were important in the community (before, kings or nobles). It was important in the XVII to XIX century, related with the rural and monastic architecture and with the feudal organisation system, since it did a special union of local management around who lived in the towns.
Such as palace architecture category thrives one time finalised the majestic skirmishes of the XV century, heretofore the noblemen lived in towers, constructions more appropriated for the war activities. Like this, the pazo (or the pazos) were turn into a social brand and host of the noble class, that portray in its novels Otero Pedrayo at the beginning of the XX century. Also Emilia Pardo Bazán reflected in the literature the life in the pazos, in her novel. The pazos of Ulloa,that was carried to the cinema and the TV too.
in the pazo such as traditional civil architecture structure is associated to a social network: the servants of the nobles, that also lived int the same pazo. It usually has a main building around of a garden, a dovecote and usually small chapels for religious celebrations.
The term pazo is a cognate palace, it is original of the Latin palatiu(m). Such as curiosity, the Portuguese word, language near to Galician, to say palace is paço.
The pazo has a different Galician place name, such as Pazos de Borbén, Pazos de Borela or Pazos de Reis, three localities of the Pontevedra province. This place name or the pazo has different anthroponomical turn into place name again in some Americans localities, like the case of Pazos Kanki, locality of the Buenos Aires, Argentinian province, that remember the memory of Vicente Pazos Kanki, Peruvian priest that participated in the May Revolution.