Her laugh at Vigo from 350 km of altitude it revolutionizes Internet

The Japanese Soichi Noguchi is an astronaut he takes images of the world to more than 350 kilometers of altitude from the international space station. The astronaut of the Japanese Agency of Aerospace Exploration hangs every day on Internet several photos.
On March 16 did it honor Gallicia with a photo of laugh at Vigo that Internet revolutionizes asking that city of Europe is this?
Perhaps considering bird Vigo looks alike to Istanbul. At least a few Net users believed that yesterday. They confused her laugh with the Bosporus Strait, they saw in Vigo and continent different O Morrazo dos - although in both places the world is not seen, but it looks - and believed that the bridge of Rande was that of Fatih Sultan. The fault was of a photo.
The astronaut writes in Twitter and hangs the photos that show to his followers a perspective of the world completely different from that one to which they are used. Noguchi has painted the portrait of the mount French San Michel, the Seychelles, Afghanistan or Ukraine. Between others. In an occasion he said that from the space the pyramids of Egypt could be seen and provoked an inflamed debate.
Always identify the place until it hung the image of laugh at Vigo that is seen on this page and he asked, escuetamente, «Yam this city in Europe!», something like: «What city of Europe is this?». In only six hours it had already received more than 13.000 visits. It was the second time that there was publishing a photo of a Spanish city, after Madrid.
«It is Istanbul», answered him some of his followers. «It is Montenegro», he made sure other. «It is Vigo, I am sure», they insisted several. Someone abounded with arguments: "This white and big that is seen to the left is the Citroën factory» or «This is the Rande bridge».
Was there also the one who chose to answer the riddle with more grace and, opportunely, he chose those unmistakable poems: "Vexo Vigo, vexo Cangas?/? tamén vexo Redondela?/? vexo to Put of Sampaio?/? I walk it gives mines terra».
Source: The Voice of Gallicia

Singular religious holidays in Gallicia

From these dates holidays coincide in Gallicia with deep religious root that they emphasize for his beauty or for his singularity on having showed the deepest and particular religious devotion of the Galician people.
The holidays of the Corpus Christi are lived in a special way in Gallicia, the celebrations of Redondela are outstanding up to 14 and especially on the same 14th The Corpus Christi in Ponteareas with his beautiful floral carpets, which given his importance and beauty has the denomination of Holiday of Interest Tourist International. If you can do not get lost on the night of this next Saturday the dressmaking of the carpets for the neighbors and on the following Sunday morning enjoy the work finished in all his splendor.

On the 23rd and 24th of June it is celebrated in Lalín O Bra, in Saint Baia de Losón, big Galician pilgrimage with many pilgrims inflow.
The pilgrims and the most devout faithful do the peregrination on foot, doing the last kilometer of the way of knees to treat the illnesses of the soul, how or badly of ollo and or meigallo. A ritual that does that it is the only place in Gallicia where for the church exorcisms and cleanlinesses of spirit are still done by the parish priest of the temple.

On July 11 San Benitiño of Lérez, in the suburbs of Pontevedra, the crowded pilgrimage of the "saint máis milagreiro", as they spread you will sing them popular. Benedictine San is one of the most venerated saints of Gallicia, cult that goes back to the same Alta Edad Media and that propagates with the order of the Cister that has in Gallicia important monasteries. Saint to whom the devout ones come with the intention of treating some evil, especially the warts. Lérez is an ancient Benedictine monastery, sanctum raised in the banks of the river Lérez, where the small image of the saint is venerated. The devout ones happen under his altar and smear a finger in the lamp of oil that they say "miraculously".
On July 29 Santa Marta. Procession of the Shrouds (Procession you give mortallas) in Ribaterme-As Neves, province of Pontevedra, and the third Sunday of September Procession of the Shrouds in Pobra do Caramiñal

Singular courtship with coffins include you, with origins in the XVth century that are celebrated in the parish of O Dean in the procession of Jesus Nazarene and that even interest has woken up in Singapore. Those who were rubbing the death entrusted to themselves to the Nazarene requesting his salvation, on this day as gratitude they walk after the one that should be its own coffin and his relatives carry the coffin and candles, all this with a religious fervor that surprises and sobrecoge even to the skeptics.

Free Audioguías of the Atlantic Islands

Across Tourism of Pontevedra we find out that The National park Illas Atlánticas puts this summer at the disposal of the visitors free in Internet audioguías that include maps, routes and videos of the islands that can be unloaded from the Rural environment web.

A detail that does that the visit to the islands Cíes, Ons, Cortegada and Sálvora is more finished and documented.

More blue flags in Gallicia in 2009

124 emblems dedicated to the Galician coast her turn one more year into national leader in the ranking of sandbanks and beaches with major quality and attraction.
Gallicia can presume to have 124 beaches and ports with blue flag. It is with difference the community that more distinctions has received this year of the whole Spanish coast. Sanxenxo leads the national municipalities ranking with more blue flags with 13.
The excellence of the Galician beaches with a confirmed quality and beauty they form our coast as the most attractive of Spain and Europe. The most important parameters to qualify a beach are the environmental quality, accessibility, health, cleanliness and safety.
Also Gallicia is provided with 5 sports ports with blue flag.
BEACH LIST OF GALLICIA WITH BLUE FLAGS IN 2009 for concello
PROVINCE OF PONTEVEDRA
To Watch (Big Area), Baiona (To Ribeira, Santa Marta, A Barbeira), Nigrán (Ducks, Praia America, Panxón), Vigo (To Top, Argazada, Or Vao, Rhodes (Islands Cíes), Or Tombo do Cat, Canido, Fontaiña), Moaña (Praia do With), Cangas de Morrazo (Areabrava, Nerga, Menduiña, Areamilla, Liméns), Bueu (Portomaior, Area of Bon, Lagos), Marín (Portocelo, Aguete, Mogor, Loire), Poio (Xiorto in Raxó), Sanxenxo (Silgar, Caneliñas, Cinnamons, Paxariñas, Montalvo, Major, Foxos, Fat Areas A Limpet, Pragueira, Baltar, Bascuas, Areas, Panadeira), Or Grove (Cruz gives Area, To Lance thrust, Rareiros, Area you give Pips, Area of Reboredo, Big Area), Illa de Arousa (Area of Dried and Camaxe)
PROVINCE OF A CORUNA
Boiro (Carragueiros, Barraña, Mañóns), Pobra do Caramiñal (Lombiña-Cabío, Illa gives Loosens, To Boat), Ribeira (Coroso, Vilar, Corna, Touro, Rio Goshawk, To Ameixida), Loosen (Praia of Laxe), Ponteceso (Balarés), Laracha (Caión), A Coruna (Riazor, San Amaro, Orzán-Matadero, Limpets, Oza), Oleiros (Bastiagueiro, Mera-Penatouro, Espiñeiro), Mined (I mine Big, Perbes, Praia gives Ribeira), Ferrol (Doniños, San Xurxo, Esmelle, You Cogo),
Valdoviño (To Frouxeira, Do Rio (Meirás), Or It Rolled (Skate), Shooting, Vilarrube), Ortigueira (Morouzos, To Conch) Rianxo (Tanxil, Expert Cunchas), Cee (Estorde), Dumbría (Ézaro), Carnota (Mar de Lira), Corcubión (Quenxe), Carballo (Razo, Pedra do Sal), Walls (Parameán)
PROVINCE OF LUGO
Burela (Or Carry Marosa, Ril), Or Vicedo (Xilloi, Open it), Xove (Esteiro), Cervo (Or Winch, Caosa), Foz (Areoura, Peizás, Llas, Expert Polas, To Rapadoira, You Xuncos), Barreiros (Fontela-Valea, Arealonga, Expert Pasadas, Lóngara, Preserve, Cliff - Remior, San Bartolo, Altar), Ribadeo (Expert Catedrais, You Castros-Illas)
SPORTS PORTS OF GALLICIA WITH BLUE BANDERAL 2009
Province of Pontevedra
Sports port of Baiona.
Real Nautical Club of Vigo.
Monte Real Club of Yachts of Baiona
Province of A Coruna
Port of A Coruna.
Nautical of Portosín-Porto do Son. Watch Southland S02E03 U-Boat online

Gallicia. Come. Feel it

The Galician autonomous government starts two campaigns to receive the tourist and to promote Gallicia like destination for the summer, one treats minutes of duration as two way announcements, one directed to the autonomic ambience and other to the state one.
The eslongan "Gallicia. Come. Feel it" in a commercial that thinks about how to attract those families that still have not decided his destination and make them see that the Galician community constitutes a destination aequible and very well.

The campaign directed to the internal market – under the motto “Gallicia, coñécela?” – he claims that the Galicians “remain in the community”, as he told Brown, to encourage the domestic tourism with the message of which “there are many places still for knowing”.
He competes for supporting the tourist position of Gallicia, which according to different demand studies is perceived as a destination “much identified with the nature, the culture and the emotions”, as he informed Tourism. In the announcements that will be expressed in the televisions of more hearing in Spain there are included elements that distinguish to the Galician tourism of the rest of the State, like the Milky Way. Download Til Death S04E20 The New Neighbors now

Tower of Hércules is a Patrimony of the Humanity

The most ancient Roman lighthouse of the world in assets, has just been declared Patrimony of the Humanity by the Committee of the World Patrimony of the UNESCO assembled in Seville.
The Tower of Hércules has received the support of all the countries and approved by acclamation inscribing to the Tower in the list of the World Patrimony as cultural place of "exceptional universal value". The candidacy of the Tower of Hércules began in 2001 with the creation of the Institute of Studies Tower of Hércules (IETH) and it has been provided with a wide popular support.

only one Roman lighthouse that still keeps on fulfilling his original mission almost 2.000 years later, being now a light of the World Patrimony something that they could preserve not even Alexandria not Rhodes.
Gallicia already counts with this new nomination with four declared places Patrimony of the Humanity. The City of Santiago de Compostela, the Milky Way and the Roman Wall of Lugo.

It shaves you give Bestas de Sabucedo

This year A Rapa you give Bestas de Sabucedo in addition to beautiful images it presents some innovations that we detail and you can consult in his program.
It shaves it you give Bestas de Sabucedo that was between the candidates to be one of ten Treasures of the Intangible cultural heritage of Spain, such a reputation is reaching that a Japanese television will film the celebrations, they want to record a reportage for the documentary series "to Go up to the end of the world" and to take part the correspondent like aloitadora in Sabucedo.

The declared holiday of International Tourist Interest, every year attracts thousands of visitors, who come to see like this group of men and some woman they compete in force with the horses them to try to dominate and to cut them "expert guedellas" without using sticks or ropes to keep them calm.
It is a struggle that gives cause for beautiful images that show the struggle between the man and the animal what does that many visitors approach this first weekend of July Sabucedo.
RapaBus
On the 3rd and 4th of July there will be enabled a service of free collective transport between A Road and Sabucedo to facilitate the access to the Rapa you give Bestas and to diminish the number of particular vehicles. Transport that will allow to come to the Sons concerts gives Shaves of Friday and Saturday it will facilitate to come with time to approach the Farmhand for asisitir to you come from Expert Bestas to Sabucedo as to the first Work.