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WHAT TO VISIT: Hidden in the riverbank woodland, the waterfalls A CORUÑA LUGO and the impressive viewpoints, myths and legends When travelers are heading to Galicia, Santiago is the sea of Arousa and the river Ulla. Visitors can also The artistic and cultural heritage of the Lands of are preserved, such as the one of Pico Sacro, in one of the destinations they cannot miss. The city choose the only route with Santiago as the starting Santiago is of incalculable value. Apart from all the Boqueixón. Here, Queen Lupa ordered to build a of Compostela, UNESCO World Heritage Site since point and an excellent final point for the journey: the churches connected to the Way, there are important tomb for the Apostle, not realizing that the Cova do 1985, has one of the most important historical Way to Fisterra-Muxía. religious ensembles, such as the monastery of Santa Inferno was the place, where a dragon lived. The centres in the world. You cannot miss visiting the María de Sobrado, and civil buildings that take us viewpoint of A Pena or the Coto de San Sebastián, in Cathedral and the Pórtico da Gloria (Portico of Glory), FESTIVITIES AND FAIRS to the magnificent times of noble families, such as Touro, and the O Picoto, in Val do Dubra, are other as well as the emblematic Obradoiro, a Quintana and the pazos of Faramello, in Rois, and Santa Cruz de perfect vantage points to take in this magnificent o Toural squares. Furthermore, visitors have dozens Compostela is a city that holds many festivals, with Ribadulla, in Vedra. landscape in the heart of Galicia. of churches, convents and palaces of all styles, from religious processions such as the one of Ascensión, Romanesque to baroque and gothic. which covers streets and squares with craftworks, These lands also offer many megalithic remains MUSEUMS music, gastronomy and leisure. However, the best such as the castro of Socastro in Rois, with ancient Walking around Compostela, getting lost through dates are, with no doubt, the festivities of the day legends of hidden treasures, and Pedra do Home, Historical, gastronomic, ethnographical, religious, its alleys and suddenly finding a majestic square, a of the Apostle, on the 25th of July. During this in Val do Dubra, an ancient cemetery following the artistic... In Compostela and its lands, we can find a monastery or even the solemn faculty, is a unique month, Compostela beats attendance records, Christian ritual. Regarding the funerary architecture, wide range of museums, not only in the capital, but experience that invites us to travel throughout time which culminate with the traditional fireworks of the we should point out the popular dolmen of also in the surrounding areas. and to blend in with the pilgrims. Sharing the emotion Apostle, in front of the Cathedral façade, especially LANDS OF SANTIAGO LANDS area tourist Cabaleiros, in Tordoia, which is preserved in excellent of arriving at the praza do Obradoiro for the first time impressive during the Holy year. conditions, and the petroglyphs of San Xoán de Riba The Cathedral museum and the Pilgrimage Museum and letting our sight and spirit fly free in one of the PONTEVEDRA OURENSE in A Baña. are two essential museums in order to understand most important temples in the history of humanity. In Lands of Santiago, there are other festivites that the importance of the Way and the history of one stand out due to their uniqueness, such as the Visitors who want to stroll around the charming of the most visited temples in the world. The most One of the shows that cannot be missed is the bird Entroido dos Xenerais da Ulla. This festival, declared small towns are in the right place, sprinkled all over erudite Galicians rest in the pantheon of the museum eye’s view of Compostela from the rooftops of the of Tourist Interest in Galicia in 2013, dramatizes the with stone houses with the typical “hórreos” (raised of Galician People, very close to one of the main LANDS OF SANTIAGO Cathedral, already recommended by the Codex combats between the generals of the Independence granaries), such as Angueira de Castro in Rois or examples of modern architecture, the Galician Calixtinus nine centuries ago. War through poetic songs. (coplas). Furelos in Melide. Centre of Contemporary Art, designed by Álvaro Siza, sea and land MAGIC destinations author of the beautiful outline of the park WHAT TO DO: GASTRONOMY NATURE of Bonaval, also located in this area on an ancient cemetery. Another important place THE WAY OF SAINT JAMES If cultural heritage is vast, gastronomy in the lands of River landscapes are the great treasure of the inlands not to miss is the Galician City of Culture, Santiago is even vaster. Lovers of good food can try in this region, where the rivers, Tambre and Ulla, an impressive work of contemporary For ten centuries, the best way to get to Compostela many typical products, such as the popular cake from produce unique ecosystems. These rivers are popular architecture built on Mount Gaiás. has been to take the Way of Saint James, one of the Santiago, octopus from Melide, Arzúa-Ulloa cheese, among anglers who enjoy fishing trout, salmon most popular and traveled routes in the whole world. Vedra liquor, filloas from Lestedo, trouts from Oroso, and escalos (very typical in the North of Spain and If we follow the jubilee route, we will More than 300,000 people use the most ancient mushrooms from Ordes, peppers from Herbón, “galo Portugal) and provide visitors with beautiful river find the Museo da Terra in Melide,an route in Europe every year to give the apostle the piñeiro” from O Pino... Almost all these delights have beaches and recreational areas. Maceira bridge old pilgrims hospital, which collects the LANDS OF SANTIAGO traditional embrace. their own gastronomic fair, some of them of tourist is one of the most impressive spots over the river memorabilia of the history and culture of interest, together with other important ones such Tambre, between Ames and Negreira. This big stone this region. Galician customs and traditions tourist area Ordes The most popular route is the one starting in as the Exaltación do Viño da Ulla (Exaltation of Wine bridge, built in the 13th century, and the monumental remain at the Costume Museum Juanjo Oroso Roncesvalles, Navarra, which is the French Way. from Ulla), in Vedra,, Festa do Melindre (fried sweet Cerceda ensemble formed by a primitive town, are surrounded Linares, in Ordes, or in the Fishing museum Trazo Frades The Galician section starts in O Cebreiro, a beautiful bread) in Melide, the Carneiro ao Espeto (spit-roast Mesía by a thick vegetation and river waterfalls, where we in Vedra. Gastronomy is very important in Tordoia Curtis prehistoric town, and reaches Santiago by Mount do mutton) in San Xulián de Sales (Vedra) and the can find one of the most photographed images of this Arzúa, with two interesting proposals: the Gozo, culminating point from which we can observe suckling pig in Cerceda. Vilasantar region, both by tourists and pilgrims. As a landscape Live Honey Museum and the Cheese and Santa Comba the Cathedral for the first time. and natural reference point, we can also find the oak Honey cultural promotion centre. There are Sunset in Santiago Sobrado Val do Dubra Boimorto grove of A Mota, in Arzúa, where parents used to plant other places dedicated to the interpretation Among the Jubilee itineraries, ancient Ways are A Baña Toques oak trees in the belief that their children would be free of nature, such as the centre Pico Sacro, in Negreira becoming more and more popular, such as the Melide from having to do military service. In Touro, the cork Boqueixón, river Ulla and Terra do Xallas. Ames Portuguese Way and the South-West way-Vía da oak grove of the river Ulla is a forest full of hundred- Brión Santiso Prata, which connects Portugal and Andalusia with Arzúa year-old trees that rivals in landscape diversity, with A tribute to Galician literature finds its greatest Touro turismo.dacoruna.gal Galicia. The Primitive Way has also been recovered, Rois waterfalls such as the ones of Inferniño and Salto das examples in Rosalía de Castro’s House-Museum, in O Pino @DACTurismo often used in the Middle Ages, together with the Pombas, in the same town, as well as the ones in Padrón, and also in the Galician Public Foundation Boqueixón North Way, through which travelers from all over Padrón Turismo da Deputación da Coruña Hortas, in Arzúa and Ínsua, in Val do Dubra. Camilo José Cela, dedicated to the author and to the Vedra Europe come, except for the English, who have their Teo Dacturismo work of this Galician Nobel prize winner. 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