Associations and organisations of A Limia

Cultural, sporting and economic life in A Limia rests on associations and organisations of very different ages. This page gathers those with an entry on this website and points to each one; it does not claim to be a complete register of the comarca’s associations, and new ones are added as citable sources become available.

Culture and heritage

• Cultural Association Civitas Limicorum. Since 2001 it has organised the Festa do Esquecemento and the Vestalias in Xinzo de Limia; its entry covers the origin of the name, activities, publications and the Bispo Idacio awards ^[1]. See Civitas Limicorum and the Festa do Esquecemento.
• Cultural Association A Pantalla. An organisation linked to the Xinzo Entroido, created in 1996, which keeps in its holdings what is considered the oldest surviving Pantalla, that of Pepucho from 1945-1946. See Entroido: memory and archive and Craftspeople and historic pantallas.
• Cultural Association O Bión. Founded in Xinzo in 1989, it organises the Xornadas de Cultura Popular; see The O Bión Association and the Xornadas de Cultura Popular.
• Board of the Museo da Limia. It runs the programme of the Museo Etnográfico da Limia (which includes the Biblioteca da Limia) and created the Pedra Alta Prize in 2017; the craftspeople’s association Limiar also appears in the entry on The rooms, the Board and the Library ^[3]. See also Pedra Alta Prize.
• Xinzo de Limia Municipal Band. Directed by Hermelindo Gómez Rodríguez, in 1986 it recorded in the municipal library the four tracks of an EP released in 1992 by the Editorial Compostela of El Correo Gallego in its Fonoteca 92 collection ^[4].

Sport

• Antela Football Club. Founded in June 1919, it is the oldest club in the province of Ourense ^[2]. See Antela Football Club (1919).

Farming economy

• Propasi and the Feculera of Xinzo. Companies for seed potatoes and potato starch since the 1940s; see Propasi, AGA and the Feculera of Xinzo.

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Sources

1. «A Asociación Cultural Civitas Limicorum (Acerca de)». https://civitaslimicorum.com/acerca-de
2. «Antela Fútbol Clube», Galipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antela_Fútbol_Clube
3. «As Salas do Museo da Limia», Museo da Limia. https://museodalimia.com/salas/
4. «Banda de Música Municipal de Xinzo de Limia (Fonoteca 92)», Galipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banda_de_Música_Municipal_de_Xinzo_de_Limia_(Fonoteca_92)