The Background Story:
The Ponte Maceira bridge was very important on the Maritime Way of St. James, as it connected the city of the Apostle James with Finisterre.
There are many legends related to the Way, such as one in which the disciples of the Apostle James fled south to find a place to bury the decapitated body of their master while being pursued by Roman legionaries.
The Christians managed to cross the bridge, and when the Romans tried to follow them, the bridge collapsed by "divine" intervention, allowing the Christians to escape.
Here, in the early 12th century, a battle took place between the men of the first Archbishop of Compostela, Diego Gelmírez, and the troops of Pedro Fróilaz de Traba and his sons Fernando Pérez de Traba and Bermudo Pérez de Traba, with whom conflicts on the Tambre River border of the Land of Santiago were common.
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