A CandaChapel of Santo Antón
The chapel, dedicated to Santo Antonio and Santo André, is located in the centre of the village of A Canda, one of the two villages that make up the parish of A Vilavella. It is a construction of Romanesque origin with a rectangular floor plan made up of two distinct spaces: the nave and the presbytery. It has stone load-bearing walls and a roof with a wooden beam structure with a gabled roof in the nave and four in the presbytery, which is protected by slate. A legend says that, once upon a time, the lord of this land saw his house on fire and asked Saint André for help. He replied that he would put out the fire if he built him a hermitage, and that is how this temple was erected. This place gives its name to the Portela da Canda (1,259 m high), a pass between mountains that links Galicia with Castilla León through the municipalities of A Mezquita (Ourense) and Lubián (Zamora). The mountains of A Canda, located between the Serra Calva (Galicia) and the Serra da Coroa (Portugal), have their origins before glaciation, hence the roundness of their shapes.