Via Nova known Geira XVIII or via the Itinerary of Antoninus, is a Roman Road linking two major cities in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula (the former Bracara Augusta, now the city of Braga, and the ancient city of Augusta Asturica today Astorga, in Spain.) This road connected the two major cities in a journey of 215 miles, about 318 km. The Geira or Via Nova opened, probably in the late first century AD, around the year 80, under the auspices of Titus and Dominiciano. It is believed that construction of the Via Nova reinforced the Roman road network, has given most mobile armies, led a reorganization of the territory and led to increased mining activity and transition of these assets (especially the movement of the gold mines of Las Medulas, set World Heritage of Humanity).
Via Nova knows a diagonal route that links the triangle of administrative policy and road established by Augustus, with vertices in the three cities: Bracara Augusta, Lucus Augusti and Asturica Augusta.
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n the Land of Bouro Geira covers the parishes of Souto, Libra, Chorense, Vilar, Charmoim, Covide, Campo do Geres and arrives finally at Portela do Homem, thence into Spanish territory.
The archaeological remains in the Land of Bouro are impressive: there are over 150 miliaris, which marked the miles on Via and gave to it, the traveler, the distance to the nearest town. In addition to the milestones in Land Bouro is possible to discern traces of Roman Bridges (on the Ribeiro da Maceira, Ribeira do Forno, Ribeiro Monsoon and Ponte de S. Miguel, Man of the River), shod with run-marks, quarries where milestones were extracted and stone blocks to build bridges. Start also to be discovered archaeological remains of small indigenous settlements or support the construction of Via, which attest to the importance of Via.
The Rail Couto de Souto, historical and cultural context, is a small footpath route (PR) that presents a real extension of 9.5 km, with a duration of four hours and an average degree of difficulty.
