The K08 is a slate chosen for rehabilitation of old roofs in buildings listed as historic. Our brand can be found on top of emblematic buildings that have gone through a process of restoration and improvement of cultural and architectural heritage, with the final goal of its best conservation.
In our effort to choose each month a work that represents our values as a whole, we begin this new year appealing for our roots and proud of the K08 as the slate chosen for the rehabilitation of the roof of San Xil of Casayo Chapel.
The meticulous reconstruction work was done respecting the original construction. This, dates from S. XIII, “after the saint retired to the mountains of Casaio from the priory of Santa Cruz and before, from the monastery of Carracedo (El Bierzo)”. This is what the theologian and historian Isidro García Tato says, a member of the CSIC, born in Viladequinta (Carballeda de Valdeorras). “According to the data we handle, the chapel had to be built between 1240 and 1250, at the time that San Xil lived there with his brother Pedro Fresne,” defends the historian.
At the beginning of the seventeenth century, the construction of a new chapel began, until nowadays.
