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Data of the Town	Devesa
Town	Parish: Devesa, To (Santalla)
Municipality / council	Ribadeo / Region: To Mariña Oriental
Province	Lugo
Community	Gallicia
inhabitants 2003	615
	Town hall
Direction	Praza of Spain, 1
ZIP code	27796
Phone	982 12 86 50
Fax	982 13 09 75
Office Tourism	To contact with telf. quoted
Official web	Concello of Ribadeo
Web of Interest	Ribadeo delegation           Ribadeo info
E-mail municipality

Places of Devesa: To Avesada, Or Barral, To Quarter gives Bell, Quarter Novo, Cepetal, Cinxe, Esteiro, To Press, Liñeiro, Meirengos, Nontransfers, You Olleiros, Pedreira, Preixoana, Or Moment, Or Rochela, Or Viladroiro, Vilagoiz, Vilandriz, To Volta.

• Festas:

Or On August 31 acostuman to be celebrated ss Festas na honors San Ramón, that incluen romaría and procession. But expert Festas Patronais there are a Saint's expert Eulalia marries sempre or 10 of Decembro and contan with unha big tradition na area xa that coincide coa epoch or San Martiño ou gives slaughter do porco.

• History:

Derive or seu nome do Latin Defense, 'protexida', that perde to-n - before to-s - na súa evolution, like mensa / table, remaining like that Defesa, since xa not year 924 turns out to be testified. To-f - Latin, fricative sound fortemente sonorizado, convírtese in-v - giving us to súa current form Devesa, co meaning of 'Vila fortemente defended' that logo pasou after this one designating parish.

• Monuments:

Or parochial temple (to Saint's Igrexa Eulalia) é do seculo XVI, but with reforms later. Arrange dunha ship with edge vault us three stretches, on arches faxons. Na front one arch escarzano and unha tower of complete dous corpos pola average dome laranxa. Not seu interior, one neoclassic reredos do seculo XIX and three baroque do XVIII. In singing to gold work three chalices and one possesses pyx, of prata and ouro. They exist you prop inside do térmo parochial three geld them, baixo expert advocacions of Santa Filomena, San Roque and San Ramón (cun baroque reredos do XVIII, or that lle incorporou one Christ do seculo XVII). Na area of You Forts remains of Celtic forts be still pruned aèrcibir of certa importance. By the thermos flask tamén they are located or I circulate Habaneiro, to House It Pleases, to House Maseda and outras of colonial or broad-faced style it gives road xeral.

• Lecer:

Separate mention deserves or Hostel Xuvenil, one camp that is opened they will not see to realize camped. Tamén atopamos unha agricultural cooperative You Irmandiños, two models that contribuiu, to give empuxe or concello you give municipal not ambience activities. But tamén hai that falar you give praias do seu thermos flask, sobresaindo to Praia you give Catedrais (pertencente to area of O Moment), but tampouco we owe of desprezar ace praias of: Expert Illas and A Rochela (ambalas duas na area gives Rochela) and Esteiro (inside it gives area do mesmo nome).

(Part of Text of Wikipedia galego).