Vila Nova de Cerveira

Vilanova de Cerveira (or just Cerveira) is a charming small village in northern Portugal. Its name comes from the deer populations that used to inhabit these lands, honoured by an iron sculpture of a deer observing the village from a hilltop by the artist José Rodrigues. The work also commemorates an ancient Portuguese victory, whose army outnumbered the Spanish. They placed torches on the antlers of the thousands of deer that inhabited the area's forests. Believing that the animals were a horde of soldiers running at superhuman speed, the Spanish fled in terror. One of the main attractions is the ferry that travels back and forth between the villages of Goián (Galicia) and Miño.