Due to the strategic and commercial importance of Pontecesures, this baroque building with a large borbonic coat of arms was built in 1790 by the State Treasury for the control and monopoly of tobacco rents. Later, it would serve to house salt, sulphur, gunpowder or cereals, among others.
Also known as "la Factoría", this imposing building and the adjacent houses, show the importance of Pontecesures as an inland port, being the only one in the Ría de Arousa that had, since 1467, the exclusive right to unload salt, granted by the provision of King Enrique IV.
Did you know that in 1900 there was a great fire that lasted three days and destroyed most of the compartments inside it as well as the beams and chestnut wood floors?
