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The Pedra Alta Prize of the Museo da Limia (2017-2025)

The Pedra Alta Prize, created in 2017 by the Board of the Museo da Limia, recognises people or organisations that leave a mark on A Limia: all the editions, from Elixio Rivas Quintas (2017) to Carlos Canal (2025).

The Pedra Alta Prize was created by the Board of the Museo Etnolóxico da Limia (Vilar de Santos) to recognise people or organisations whose work leaves a mark worthy of consideration in the lands of A Limia, or beyond them if they were born in this territory [5][8].

Origin

On 30 September 2017 the Advisory Council of the Museum’s Board, which defines the programme of activities, was constituted in Vilar de Santos; more than twenty men and women of A Limia belong to it, among them the mayor of Vilar de Santos Xoán Jardón, Delfín Caseiro (president of the Board), the historian Edelmiro Martínez Cerredelo, the architects Manuel Seoane and Lola Peláez, the sculptor Xosé Lois Carreira and Noemi Vázquez, of the cultural café "A Arca de Noé". The first meeting agreed to create the prize, aimed at recognising work that "highlights knowledge of the past, analysis of present reality, intellectual creation, identity elements, or support for the economic and social development of the comarca" [1].

The award is a replica of the menhir of the former Lagoa de Antela (see A Pedra Alta), the work of the Limia sculptor Xosé Lois Carreira, and a diploma designed by the architects Manuel Seoane and Lola Peláez; the three collaborate selflessly [2]. The award ceremony is usually held at the Museum and in the multipurpose hall of Vilar de Santos Town Council, followed by a fellowship lunch at the Novaíño restaurant [2][6].

The winners

Edition Year Winner
I 2017 Elixio Rivas Quintas, lexicologist, ethnographer and teacher (Xunqueira de Ambía)
II 2018 Antonio Rodríguez Colmenero (Lucenza, 1936), emeritus professor of Ancient History
III 2019 CDR "O Viso", of Lodoselo (Sarreaus)
IV 2021 Limisi, association of people with functional diversity
V 2022 Antela Section of the Sociedade Galega de Historia Natural
VI 2023 Amalia Gómez Manso, founder of the Novaíño restaurant
VII 2024 Edelmiro Martínez Cerredelo, historian
VIII 2025 Carlos Canal Blanco, cyclist

The data for each edition come from the cited sources [1]–[10].

  • 2017, Elixio Rivas Quintas. A Vincentian priest who combined secondary and higher-level teaching with enormous research in lexicology, onomastics, toponymy, philology and ethnography; author of more than 50 works, including the Léxico rural do noroeste hispánico (25 volumes) [2].
  • 2018, Antonio Rodríguez Colmenero. Agreed on 29 September 2018 on the proposal of the Advisory Council (23 of its 35 members), for his work on the Roman camp of Aquis Querquennis (at Porto Quintela, almost forty years of work), the Via Nova between Braga and Astorga and the Roman cultures of the Limia valley [3].
  • 2019, CDR "O Viso". Born in Lodoselo in 1990 for the integral development of the rural area (social, educational, economic, training and employment actions); driven by Carmen and Toño [4].
  • 2021, Limisi. A non-profit association promoting people with functional diversity, with a comarca occupational centre (20 places, 19 people served in 2020), socio-educational intervention and other services [5].
  • 2022, SGHN – Antela Section. Honoured for eleven years of work restoring wetlands in the former lagoon; the ceremony, on 26 November 2022, included a guided tour of the Museum and a photo exhibition for the 25th anniversary of Antela. A memoria asolagada [6]. The Antela Section was created on 2 February 2011, World Wetlands Day and the 40th anniversary of the Ramsar Convention, for the part of the comarca where the lagoon lay; the Board decided to honour it unanimously on 22 October 2022, prioritising the defence of life in the heart of A Limia [14].
  • 2023, Amalia Gómez Manso (Santa Ana, Sandiás, 1927). About sixty years ago she turned a village tavern on the N-525 into Novaíño (Piñeira de Arcos), the comarca’s emblematic restaurant, now run by the third generation; the prize honours all the grandmothers and mothers of A Limia [7].
  • 2024, Edelmiro Martínez Cerredelo (Miro). Presented on 23 November 2024 in Vilar de Santos, with nearly 200 people [8]. See Edelmiro Martínez Cerredelo.
  • 2025, Carlos Canal Blanco (Xinzo de Limia, 28/06/2001), professional cyclist with the Movistar team, trained at Club Ciclista Maceda; the prize also honours the bicycle as a means of transport in A Limia and the bicycle workshops. The ceremony, on 6 December 2025, brought together over a hundred people, attended by the mayors of Xinzo, Vilar de Barrio, Sandiás and Vilar de Santos and by the earlier winners Antonio Rodríguez Corbal (CDR "O Viso") and Miro Cerredelo [9][10].

Sources

  1. «Elixio Rivas Quintas, primeiro homenaxeado do premio "Pedra Alta"», Museo da Limia, 04/10/2017. https://museodalimia.com/elixio-rivas-quintas-primeiro-homenaxeado-do-premio-pedra-alta/
  2. «O limiao X. L. Carreira, autor da figura do Premio Pedra Alta», Museo da Limia, 26/10/2017. https://museodalimia.com/o-limiao-x-l-carreira-autor-da-figura-do-premio-pedra-alta-atribuido-polo-museo-da-limia/
  3. «Antonio Rodríguez Colmenero, Premio Pedra Alta 2018», Museo da Limia, 03/10/2018. https://museodalimia.com/antonio-rodriguez-colmenero-premio-pedra-alta-2018/
  4. «O CDR O Viso, Premio Pedra Alta 2019», Museo da Limia, 07/10/2019. https://museodalimia.com/o-cdr-o-viso-premio-pedra-alta-2019/
  5. «IV Edición do Premio Pedra Alta», Museo da Limia, 08/11/2021. https://museodalimia.com/iv-edicion-do-premio-pedra-alta/
  6. «Entrega do V Premio Pedra Alta», Museo da Limia, 27/11/2022. https://museodalimia.com/entrega-do-v-premio-pedra-alta-unha-mostra-de-compromiso-medioambiental-e-confraternidade-limia/
  7. «Premio Pedra Alta 2023 para dona Amalia Gómez Manso», Vía Lethes. https://vialethes.es/premio-pedra-alta-2023-amalia-gomez-manso
  8. «Premio Pedra Alta 2024», Museo da Limia, 21/11/2024. https://museodalimia.com/premio-pedra-alta-2024/
  9. «Acto de entrega VIII Premio Pedra Alta 2025», Museo da Limia, 06/12/2025. https://museodalimia.com/acto-de-entrega-viii-premio-pedra-alta-2025/
  10. «Premio Pedra Alta 2025: Carlos Canal», Vía Lethes. https://vialethes.es/premio-pedra-alta-2025-carlos-canal-ciclista-profesional
  11. «El Premio Pedra Alta 2021 será para la asociación Limisi Diversidade Funcional». https://vialethes.es/premio-pedra-alta-2021-limisi-diversidade-funcional
  12. «Premio Pedra Alta 2022 para a Sección Antela da Sociedade Galega de Historia Natural». https://vialethes.es/premio-pedra-alta-museo-da-limia-seccion-antela
  13. «Premio Pedra Alta 2024 para Edelmiro Martínez Cerredelo (Miro), historiador limiao». https://vialethes.es/premio-pedra-alta-2024-edelmiro-martinez-cerredelo-historiador-limiao
  14. «V edición do Premio Pedra Alta», Museo da Limia, 24-10-2022. https://museodalimia.com/v-edicion-do-premio-pedra-alta/

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