Castañeiras

Castañeira is a village in the municipality of Balboa in

El Bierzo El Bierzo (; or ''El Bierzu''; ) is a '' comarca'' in the province of León, Spain. Its capital is the town of Ponferrada. Other major towns are Bembibre and Villafranca del Bierzo, the historical capital. The territory of El Bierzo inclu ...

, province of

province of León León (, ; ; ; ) is a province of northwestern Spain in the northern part of the Region of León and in the northwestern part of the autonomous community of Castile and León. About one quarter of its population of 463,746 (2018) lives in the c ...

, Autonomous Community of Castilla y León,

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. It is located almost in the Port of Portelo, and it is the last village before entering El Bierzo in the

province of Lugo Lugo is a province (Spain), province of northwestern Spain, in the northeastern part of the autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Galicia (Spain), Galicia. It is bordered by the provinces of Ourense Province, Ourense, Ponteved ...

. The nearest towns are comeal (uninhabited), Parajís (1.4 km) and Villanueva (Balboa) (1.4 km). Castañeira was known as a legend (like many similar

) that spoke of a "golden yoke" buried nearby, related to

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and treasures (the Moors were not such, but a kind of legendary beings) and where they lived, "the Curtain the Mouro" {{DEFAULTSORT:Castaneiras Municipalities in El Bierzo