Galicia few places offer the visitor a wonderful enclave of oak trees and the sea that surrounds the Pazo da Merced, located in the heart of the Rias Altas, on the banks of the Ria de Ferrol, a seventeenth century manor house that invites to dream.

Ancient traditions popular building is connected by a passageway underwater with the monastery of San Martino in Xubia, stay on the other side of the estuary.

In the restoration of the building include stone and glass and the perfect mix of modern and ancient. The interior does not let anyone indifirente, four double rooms and four special double and also, all corners of the house have been decorated with exquisite taste.

All rooms overlook the river and feature bathroom, heating, TV, telephone and mini-bar.

Furthermore, the Manor offers its clients a library, lounges, gardens, pool and internet, as well as the possibility of organizing events, business lunches, weddings or communions.

The quality and breadth of services offered and proximity to major cities in the province of A Coruña, Pazo da Merced make an ideal place for an extended stay of pleasure or work.


HISTORY

Informed by his brother, the pastor of Santa Maria de Neda, the high expectations generated in the region, at the end of the decade of 1700 comes Matute (Najera, Logrono) D. Francisco Antonio Somalo, an active trader Rioja willing to establish a tannery in the village of La Florida, between Camino Real and the sea a retirement. In these properties, whose oldest buildings can be dated in the sixteenth century and which has a small baroque chapel dedicated to Our Lady of Mercy facilities that were built in the style of eighteenth-century manufacturing facilities, respond to a design that moves between a mansion and a factory site. And is founded Factory Tanning of Florida.
After the War of Independence, Damiana Somalo, daughter of the founder, in 1812 married John Adam Pensel, a native of Bavaria and technical minerals in the Navy Department Ferrol. Mr. Pensel died childless takes over D. Thomas Cebreyro address of the establishment, whose ownership is claimed before the King for two children who had been the priest brother of the founder, who is granted.
The children of the deceased pastor of Neda, the property reverts to the family branch of D. Francisco and like the rest of the industrial district is in crisis in 1870 and its then owner, D. Cebreiro Francisco Seoane, like many other Galician emigrated to Cuba, where in 1898 returned to live under the rule of Mrs. Mary Barros of the income that let the broader properties called Pazo de la Merced, which are spread throughout the Neda shore from Perlío to Jubie.
Middle of the nineteenth century manor house serves as Franciscan Convent and in 1925 passed into the hands of popular medical D. Cebreiro Francisco Barros, "D. Paco el de la Merced."
In May 1978 the architect city-realeno D. Alfredo Alcala Navarro bought and restored the dilapidated building to convert, in 1991, the first House of Rural Tourism in the province of A Coruña.