Spain – Galicia – Corcubion – Part I (En)
We arrived last Tuesday evening in Corcubión on the death coast to see Tino, a cousin of my cousins who lives here. We parked in the town next to the sea with beautiful views and Tino came to the motorhome to meet us and then we went to his house to shower, wash clothes and have dinner! Thanks, Tino for all this and for being a great tour guide for the next two days!
The next day Wednesday we went to see first Corcubión, a town where the houses are the same as in the old times with coats of arms on the walls or doors from the nobility, it is also a part of the Santiago way so you see pilgrims around the town. We also saw the restaurant where Tino works, with fresh seafood and fish of the best quality.
From here Tino took us to Estorde beach, a paradise where there is a hotel and restaurant on the top of the beach with beautiful gardens and amazing views and where we had a drink and they gave us a tapa of a sardines pie, first time Ben and I tried it and we like it!
Then Tino took us to Finisterre town to the restaurant Don Percebe where he knew the owners to eat seafood. We ate amazing seafood and fish. Clams, razer clams, barnacles, spider crab, brown crab and velvet crab. All this for 60 euros! We also had a fish grill platter with sea bass, red john dory and white seabream. Ben and I enjoyed it a lot! More of all the crabs and barnacles!
After lunch, we went to see Santa María da Vila de Fisterra church which is on the way to the lighthouse. Its origin is established in the year 1199.
And we kept going to the lighthouse and cape Fisterre called the end of the world because the Romans thought that it was the most western point of the earth so the world finish here! The Fisterra cape has the real secret of the Death Coast, wild sceneries and astonishing beaches. There is a bar next to the lighthouse with amazing views where we had a drink.
From here Tino took us to Sardineiro an outdoor restaurant on the top of the beach with a boat and where we met a woman and her daughter that emigrated to England in the old times and speak English. The place and people are really nice.
And then we went to Ezaro’s lookout and waterfalls. The lookout has amazing views of Carnota and it is one of the last legs of the cyclist tour of Spain. The waterfalls are unique in Spain where a river finishes in the sea with a succession of waterfalls and at night is illuminated by lights. When we arrive at the waterfalls started to rain and we finished pretty wet, the only rain we had!
And from here we went to see the largest granary in Galicia located in Carnota and built between 1768 and 1783, some people say that the Lira granary is the longest but the Carnota one is more photogenic. It is so long that looks like a train! It has 34 metres long and 1.90 metres wide supported by 22 pillars built of granite stone like the Lira one. We also saw the Santa Comba de Carnota church, of the Baroque period and built a decade before the granary. And of course, we had a drink looking at the church.
And we finished the day in the town of Muros, a fishing harbour town with an old town full of arcades and terraces. At night is beautiful as you can see in the pictures and where we had the last drink on one of the terraces and Tino found a glass inside of his beer!
We went back really late to Corbubión and we went to sleep to prepare for the next day’s tour on the Death Coast.
