It’s beautiful day and night:
My hotel is on the left of this street where the flags are flying. This is the Rua de Santa Maria, lined with old town houses, and leads into the main square, the Largo da Oliveira.
This is the restaurant belonging to the hotel, but no-one seems to eat there because it’s so expensive.
The place to go, I discovered, is called Buxa and is just next door. I had dinner there last night: pimientos de Padron, followed by rack of lamb w. mixed veggies:
Earlier, I managed a quick visit to the Church of Nossa Senora da Oliveira:
This is a peep into its cloisters.
I was also interested to see Camino shells set in the pavement. I hadn’t realised that this was a Camino town. It turns out that it’s on the Camino Torres, little known route that starts in Spain in Salamanca and then goes west into Portugal. The Tourist Information Office gave me a map:
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