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The provincial capital of Pontevedra, Galicia, carries centuries of medieval trade and pilgrimage in its granite old town, where a baroque sanctuary built on a scallop-shell plan marks the Portuguese Camino de Santiago.

A Galician coastal town with deep roots, Phoenician traders, Arab raids, medieval lords, and a ruined church that became one of Pontevedra's most striking monuments, Cambados wears its long history openly in stone.

A major Atlantic port city in Pontevedra, Galicia, whose ground holds the remains of twenty-six Iron Age hill forts, Roman fish-salting factories, and medieval Romanesque churches, all compressed beneath one of Spain's busiest working harbours.

A fortified Atlantic town in Pontevedra where a medieval castle-turned-parador guards the bay, a 15-metre stone Virgin watches from the hillside, and two local sailors once completed the first circumnavigation of the Earth.

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 cathedral built like a fortress rises above the River Miño on the Portuguese border in Pontevedra, where the Camino de Santiago crosses into Spain over a century-old international bridge.

A small Galician town in Ourense whose very name reflects its concentration of manor houses, set among rivers, medieval bridges, and a 13th-century church on the edge of Camino country.

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.

Once the capital of the Kingdom of Galicia, Ribadavia sits where medieval castle walls, a Jewish quarter declared a national monument, and the wine country of the Ribeiro converge in Ourense province.

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.