Heritage towns in A Coruña (La Coruña)
6 towns in this province.
Once the provincial capital of Galicia and still bearing its Gothic churches, medieval walls, and the legacy of powerful local lords, Betanzos in A Coruña is one of the best-preserved historic towns in the region.
A compact Atlantic peninsula town, declared a historic-artistic ensemble, where medieval pilgrims once passed through on their way from Santiago de Compostela to the coast at Finisterre, and where a Spanish warship once limped in carrying four million silver pesos after fighting off two British squadrons alone.
Once the commercial port that served Santiago de Compostela, Noia sits where three rivers meet the ría, its medieval walls, Franciscan cloister, and two protected churches marking centuries of pilgrims, pirates, and Atlantic trade.
A fortified Atlantic fishing town on the Galician ría, its Gothic collegiate church, medieval walls, and centuries of sardine trade shaped by kings, pirates, and Napoleon's troops.
The endpoint of the world's most-walked pilgrimage, Santiago de Compostela has drawn travellers to its great cathedral in Galicia for over a thousand years, and still does, by the tens of thousands every year.
A medieval port town on the Ría de Ares in A Coruña, where a 14th-century castle, a Romanesque monastery church, and a great stone bridge built by the powerful Andrade lords still define the landscape.