Camino Portugues Coastal Litoral (Spain section): Points of interest
Cultural and natural places linked to this walk in the Appy catalogue. Check each location and description to plan your visit.
- Centro Arqueológico de Salinae
The only Roman solar-evaporation saltworks of the empire to have been preserved and turned into a museum.
- Monterreal Castle
Fortress begun in the 12th century and finished in the 16th, now a Parador hotel.
- Monte Penide
Natural landmark, in Redondela, Spain, at 449 m elevation.
- Monument to Diego Carmona and Vasco Gallego
20th-century monument, in Baiona, Spain, at 12 m elevation, built in bronze.
- Virxe da Roca
Stone statue of the Virgin about 15 m tall, designed by architect Antonio Palacios. The first stone was laid in 1910 and it was inaugurated in 1930.
- Casa da Navegación
Museum, in Baiona, Spain.
- Monastery of A Visitación das Salesas Reais, Vigo
Religious building by the Galician architect Antonio Palacios, in a regionalist style with a medieval air.
- Castillo de San Sebastián
Castle in Renaissance style, in Vigo, Spain, designated as bien de interés cultural.
- Monte de Santa Trega
Natural landmark, in A Guarda, Spain, at 341 m elevation.
- Castro fortress
Fortress dating to 1665. Designated as bien de interés cultural.
- Dinoseto
20th-century monument, in Vigo, Spain.
- Puente de Castrelos
Castrelos Bridge. Bridge in Romanesque style, in Castrelos, Spain, designated as cultural heritage, built in stone.
- Mámoa do Rei
Monument, in Trasmañó, Redondela, Spain, designated as bien de interés cultural.
- Concatedral de Santa María de Vigo
The third church for Santa María in Vigo: the Gothic one, sacked by Francis Drake in 1589, was wrecked when a gunpowder store exploded nearby in 1809.
- Castro de Santa Trega
Hillfort of the Castro culture at 341 metres, over the mouth of the River Miño, lived in from about 100 BC to 100 AD. Rocks on the hill carry petroglyphs made 2,000 years before the settlers.
- Pazo de Castrelos
A seventeenth-century manor raised in 1670 over the remains of the medieval Torre de Lavandeira, destroyed in the wars with Portugal.
- Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Vigo
21st-century museum, in Vigo, Spain, designated as bien de interés cultural.
- Museo Municipal de Vigo Quiñones de León
A museum in the Pazo de Castrelos that keeps the marquises' ground-floor rooms with period furniture.
- Visigothic Arch of Panxón
Monument in pre-Romanesque art style, in Panxón, Nigrán, Spain, designated as bien de interés cultural.
- Castrelos Park
Monument, in Vigo, Spain, designated as bien de interés cultural.
- Torre de Méndez
Méndez Tower. Tower, in O Chouso, Spain, designated as bien de interés cultural.
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