THE AREA OF A CALLE

We enter into the area of A Calle, of San Xulián de Poulo parish. The town rises along the road, with a planned road system. Owing to this relationship with the road, and to the historical figures that went through here, it is also called A Calle Real de Puolo (the royal road of Puolo). Its name is a clear reference to its relation to the road.

Renowned travellers have passed through or lodged here. An inscription in a stone of the door frame of an old house and a coat of arms over the lintel reminds us that the future king, Felipe II spent a night here in a humble home. The Italian noble Cósimo de Médicis also came through here in 1669 having just been on a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela when he was travelling towards the city of A Coruña to take a boat to England.

This road link would convert the area into the most important one in the Terra de Ordes. There is a fair here every month to which all the peoples of the county go. But this prominence was lost when a new municipal capital grew by a new and important communication route.