The Hotel Pesquería del Tambre arises from the restoration of a group of houses which made up an electrical power station at the beginning of the last century. It is set upon an old Cistercian fishery that provided fish and shellfish to the monks of the monastery of Toxosoutos in San Xusto 5 Km away. This monastery was founded in around 1133 under the rule of Saint Benedict. King Alfonso VII granted them many favours and privileges. In the middle of the 13th century it was the monastery with the most economic power in Galicia. In 1504 it was annexed to Sobrado dos Monxes, accepting the reform of the Cistercian order.

ARCHITECTURE.

The Central (the power station) is the work of the modernist architect Antonio Palacios (1878-1945) (author of emblematic buildings like the Palacio de Communicaiones and the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid, the García Bardón theatre in Vigo). His work was a “section” within Spanish architecture in the first half of the 20th century, and one can say that there was a certain Palacios School. Without doubt he decisively contributed towards changing the appearance of Madrid during this first half of the century. Palacios is the representative of monumentalism in Spanish architecture, the driving influence of his style being grandeur. All of this can be clearly seen in the building which houses the Electrical Station and its complementary buildings. The work was started in 1924 under the order of the "Sociedad Gallega de Electricidad" – the Galician Electrical Society.