Escuela Micológica de Ungilde

The Mycological School of Ungilde is a museum and interpretation center dedicated to the world of fungi, located in the town of Ungilde, in the municipality of Puebla de Sanabria (Zamora), in the heart of the Sierra de la Culebra. It is located in the old schools of the village, rehabilitated by the City Council of Puebla de Sanabria within the SUSTENTA Project, funded under the POCTEP program of cross-border cooperation Spain-Portugal. It is not a historical monumental building per se, but a heritage and tourist facility installed in a reused traditional building. The municipal documentation defines it as a space to show the different habitats of the region and the ecological role of mushrooms, with a musealization based on freeze-dried species and the observation of the Sanabria landscape. Among its functions is that of a mycotourism information point, from where mycological routes are organized and visitors are guided on the collection and knowledge of mushrooms in the area. It is also mentioned in the provincial documentation as a place for processing permits for mycological exploitation of the municipal preserve of Puebla de Sanabria. Due to its location in Ungilde, about 3 km from Puebla de Sanabria along the ZA-921 road, the resource functions as an informative gateway to the natural and ethnographic mycological heritage of Sanabria, rather than as a museum of classical collection.