Montouto

Montouto is a small locality in the province of Lugo, Galicia, on the Camino Primitivo route in the interior mountain region. The name likely combines monte, meaning woodland or hill, with outo, an archaic Galician term for elevated terrain, suggesting a wooded hilltop or high woodland site.

The setting is the enclosed green valley and hill terrain of the Lugo interior, where the Primitivo crosses rolling forested country between the Fonsagrada mountain stage and the lower valley approaches to Lugo city. Traditional stone farmhouses and the mixed eucalyptus and oak woodland of the Galician interior characterise the surrounding landscape.