Leboreiro is one of the more charming hamlets on this stretch. Sparsely populated but well-maintained, with stone houses and the small Romanesque Iglesia de Santa María de las Nieves. The tympanum over the doorway is worth a look.
The village has the first cabaceiro you'll encounter — a small woven structure with a thatched roof that serves the same purpose as the stone hórreos: keeping grain dry and away from vermin. Where the hórreo uses granite and raised posts, the cabaceiro uses woven branches and straw. Both solutions work; the materials just depend on what's available locally.
The church is surrounded by the familiar legend of the Virgin who moved in the night — a mysterious glowing spring appeared, and when the locals searched for the source they found a statue of the Virgin. A chapel was built to house it, but each night the statue returned to the spring. Eventually a church was built on the spring itself, which satisfied the Virgin. The story appears in similar form at dozens of churches across Europe.
Esta entidad ha sido beneficiaria de una ayuda del Programa de incentivos a la movilidad eficiente y sostenible (MOVES III), gestionado por la Xunta de Galicia a través del Instituto Enerxético de Galicia (INEGA) en el marco del Real Decreto 266/2021, y cofinanciada por la Unión Europea — NextGenerationEU, dentro del Plan de Recuperación, Transformación y Resiliencia.