This emblematic 16th-century building, a recreational mansion that used to belong to Compostela’s archbishops, was erected on a walled plot of land measuring 50,000 m2 with woodland and gardens. It is only 300 metres from the historical town of Padrón, where legend tells that the body of Saint James the Apostol was brought by two of his disciples, that sailed up the Ulla river to Iria Flavia, where they tied up the boat on a pedrón (big rock).