Xinzo de Limia

Xinzo de Limia, is a metropolis within the province of Ourense, Autonomous Community of Galicia, Spain. It lies at the crucial Autovia das Rias Baixas within the fertile valley of Antela, about 33 km from Verin and 43 km from Ourense. The Limia river passes thru the metropolis on its way south in the direction of the Portuguese border. Xinzo is a metropolis of services and an crucial preventing point on the main Vigo-Madrid highway.

There are several small industries, together with a tumbler manufacturing unit, and lots of pig, cow and dairy farms within the surrounding region. The tired lakebed of Antela, once Spain's biggest freshwater lake until the 1950s, produces cereals, hay, and mainly potatoes. Xinzo is in truth one of Spain's biggest producers of potatoes. There is a legend related to Xinzo.

Several classical authors of antiquity reproduce the myth of the lack of memory linked to crossing the Limia River, referred by means of them as Lethes or Oblivionis. In 138 BC the Roman chieftain Decimus Junius Brutus placed an stop to the parable informed by means of the Galicians while, on crossing the river, he started out to name every one of his legionnaires by way of their names from the opposite financial institution. That historical fact has been now represented in an ancient celebration known as Festa do Esquecemento. Seeing the Límia nowadays it is tough to imagine this tiny river scary any such fear.