There are many legends associated with a Lupa or Queen Wolf in Galicia. On the highest peak south of Serra de Gomariz, about 1150 meters above sea level, next to the Portuguese border, there is a huge rock that probably served as the basis for establishing a castle with different towers. Numerous traces of its construction are still visible on the site, namely a medieval game worked in the rock itself and known as alquerque. This place was associated in popular wisdom with the place where the famous Queen Loba of A Limia would live.

The landscape, at more than 1200 meters, populated by huge rocks in perfect balance, could have had a medieval fortress. The enclave is part of an attractive mountain route between the municipalities of Os Blancos and Calvos de Randín, and following the top of O Cebreiro, you reach the ruins of an ancient wolf pit and Peneda das Fadigas, in a surprising continuity of granite formations.

To the south of Penedo da Rainha Loba (known by the locals as “Castelo Novo”-new castle), about 300 meters away, we find the sites of “O Cemiterio” and “Outeiro da Fraga”, possibly two other towers of the same defensive structure.