With the town of Ribeira as our starting point, our foray into Neolithic architecture begins with a visit to the dolmen de Axeitos, also known as the Pedra do Mouro (Moor's Stone). Walking along a tree-lined path steeped in silence, we find this prehistoric communal grave.
It looks regal despite dating back to between 4000 and 3600 BC and being one of the oldest megalithic funerary monuments in Galicia. The old folks say that between this dolmen and the natural rock formation known as the Pía do Frade (Friar's Sink) is a putlog made of gold, a mythical construction in which legends claim there are valuable treasures..