route 9 Sarela river

The washhouses form a row of six spaces for washing right on the riverbank, thus taking advantage of the current of the Sarela with the prototypical configuration of the washhouse: Sloping washstone and inns around them and on the left bank as well. The pieces were restored in their day within a municipal plan that sought to rescue these constructions.
Most of them are made up of a single, large and communal pylon. This basin is square or rectangular, full of water, and surrounded by inclined stones against which to rub the cloths, but in the case of the Santa Isabel washhouses we find an alignment of small individual washhouses, perpendicular to the river, which is not unusual but less frequent among the Galician washhouses.