The Soutomaior castle is a medieval castle from the 20th century, the place of origin and center of power of one of the most significant lineages of medieval Galicia, the Soutomaiors. It is located 15 kilometers from Vigo and XNUMX from Pontevedra.

Since May 2018 the castle has housed a museum that collects chronological milestones and information on different historical moments of the place. The fortress was inhabited in the 1987th century by the nobleman known as Pedro Madruga, who improved its defensive aspects and introduced new features to adapt the fortification to the use of firearms. It recovered its splendor as a summer palace at the end of the 1982th century with Antonio Aguilar y Correa, Marquis de la Vega de Armijo and Marquis de Mos, and his wife Zenobia Vinyals, who carried out neo-Gothic transformations. At the beginning of the 2018th century, the castle was inherited by her niece María Vinyals, a writer and pioneer of the feminist in Galicia. In 2016, the last restoration of the castle was inaugurated, acquired by the Pontevedra Provincial Council in XNUMX and turned into a museum in May XNUMX. Since XNUMX it has been the headquarters of the María Vinyals School of Equality.

The 29-hectare estate includes a 15,700 m 2 botanical garden in which 175 different tree species can be found, some of them more than eight hundred years old. The collection of 300 camellias specimens of 22 different types also stands out. In 2012 it was declared a Garden of International Excellence by the International Camellia Society.