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.

Holding a permit visits: Combarro and Pontevedra

I am useful to report from a linkage to a magnificent panorama 360th of Arde Lucus who sends to me Suso of his marvelous web of Gallicia
Concello de Poio organizes during July and August visits guided to the historical helmet of Combarro.
Combarro constructed straight on the granite and next to the sea, his historical set represents the whole find for the visitor who looks for the extract of the Galician popular architecture. He is hidden at the edge of the Ría of Pontevedra, and is precisely this privileged place the one that has allowed to come until the XXIst century keeping intact a more proper town-planning structure and an architectural style of the XVIIIth or XIXth century, do not get lost his cruceiros, barns and seaworthy houses in typical granite alleys.
There are daily routes from Monday until Friday in schedules of 12.00 and 19.30 hours with exit from the Combarro tourist information office in Carreiro do Campo, 17. More information in the phone 986 772330
Also in Pontevedra there begin with the summer arrival the visits guided to the historical helmet of Pontevedra, July, August and September. Exits from the Square of the Smithy with official Guide.
Every day except on Sundays and festive. Exits schedule 11 and 18 hs A pleasant trip for streets and squares of the beautiful helmet old pontevedrés at a reasonable price.

More tourist attractions in Poio

The Town hall of Poio, in addition to the already traditional visits guided to the historical helmet of Combarro, realizes the following free holding a permit visits:
- Muíños gives Freixa: on Tuesday and Thursday to 10:30h. Exit from the CEIP Isidora Riestra (To Dry season). Previous reservation in the phone 986.772.330
- Muiños of Samieira: on Saturdays to 10:30h. Exit from the Square Alfredo Romay Besada. Previous reservation in the phone 986.772.330
- Area Arqueolóxica da Caeira: from Monday until Friday to 10:00h. Exit from the Country house of Ferreirós (Avda. Andurique, 43. San Salvador of Poio). Previous reservation in the phone 986.833.204
He informs me Patrician that also last June 18 Arqueolóxico da Caeira was inaugurated *Centro *, a novel project developed by the Town hall of Poio in the frame of the rural development program Proder II Region of Pontevedra. This center lodges an explanatory project in which the visitors can observe and know to the detail the characteristics of the existing petroglifos in the municipality.
The visit to the Center Arqueolóxico da Caeira begins with the projection of an introductory video, next of which one happens to visit the area of exhibition in which across different panels there is offered information about the petroglifos and different aspects of the way of life of the Age of Bronze. Also there are in exhibition replies of different objects of the epoch as vessels or weapon. The exhibition area completes with a copy to natural size of the petroglifo “Well Luck” realized by means of a scanner laser 3D that a three-dimensional model of the petroglifo has allowed to obtain, exactly submilimétrica. This representation was discovered in 1999 in an area near to the place of the archaeological center, specifically in the Mount of Liñares. “Well Luck” presents a few exceptional characteristics in the rock art of this area of the peninsula, resembling other pieces found in Ireland or in the French Brittany.
The visit to the Center Arqueolóxico da Caeira is completed by the projection of an audio-visual one who narrates the way of life of the settlers of the Age of Bronze and an interactive game in which across a tactile screen a series of questions appears on this historical epoch, directed especially before the infantile and juvenile public.
The visit to the archaeological center continues and Arqueolóxica da Caeira is completed with the walk for *Área *, a convalescent space in which there can be contemplated some of the most excellent stones of this important station of rock art. His conditioning by means of the creation of a footpath, the platforms construction to facilitate the vision of the petroglifos and the installation of informative panels tries to provide to the visitor an experience, at the same time, didactic and playful.
The Area Arqueolóxica da Caeira is to the north of the nucleus of San Salvador of Poio, specifically in the hillside suroriental of the Mount Tomba gives. The Caeira assembles an exceptional set of prehistoric rock art integrated for more than twenty petroglifos or rock engravings done in the rock. They are already known from the beginnings of the XXth century thanks to the work of the intellectual pontevedrés Ramón Sobrino Buhígas.
Two are the fundamental stones of the area: "You give Lebres to Laxe” and “To Pedra Grande of Montecelo”; the first one is a big panel with deer representations. Two deer (possibly male and female) arranged in mirror symmetry shape his central motive, being the this one of the most famous images of the Galician petroglifos. The second one integrated by a numerous and multicolored set of circular combinations, constitutes one of the most surprising testimonies of the geometric subject-matter between the Galician rock engravings."
Information:
CONCELLARÍA OF TOURISM AND FESTEXOS COUNTRY HOUSE OF FERREIRÓS
Avda. Andurique, 43 - 36163 San Salvador of Poio Telf.: 986833204 Fax: 986871750 turismo@concellodepoio.es

Frank Feira of Pontevedra and holidays of tourist interest in September

Frank Feira of Pontevedra, today enjoys the immersion in the Middle Ages.
The auctioneers on horseback were yesterday the managers of giving beginning officially to X edition of Feira Franca after which the city was flooded with representations, malabares and music passing to the big day of the holiday today.

At 11:30 there will take place the opening of the market of offices and craft in A Foundry to pass at 12:00 to the traditional transport of the wine for the ancient one I walk of Castile from Santa Clara up to the same square. The retinue will be escorted, in addition to for gentlemen and halberdiers, for multitude of merecaderes and farmhands.
Today it is the day, after this it will be necessary to wait another year to return again to the Middle Ages, so, you do not think it any more, the street waits for us for all.
Marvelous plane not to get lost in the medieval holiday.

Holidays of tourist interest in September.
On the 7th Holiday of the Looks of Castelo. Taboada (Lugo)
On the 8th Ancestral Dances. Darbo. Cangas (Pontevedra)
On the 8th Pilgrimage of A Franqueira. To Cañiza (Pontevedra)
On the 8th Pilgrimage of A Nosa Señora two Milagres. To Laracha (A Coruna)
From 11 Pilgrimage of A Nosa Señora gives Boat to 14. Muxía (A Coruna)
On the 13th Virxe of Guadeloupe. Rianxo (A Coruna)
From 18 to 20 Pilgrimage of A Saínza. Rairiz of Veiga (Ourense)
On the 20th Xesús Nazareno. Procession of the Shrouds. To Pobra do Caramiñal (A Coruna)

He programmes "To the search of the Mushroom 2009"

I am informed by Estefanía de Meigalicia that turns this year again the Turgalicia program "To the Search of the Mushroom 2009" that is realized in six areas of Gallicia: To Coast there gives Morte as last year and is extended to the areas of to Baixa Limia, Serra do Édramo, Area of Penatrevinca, Marinates They Are Shown and Terra of Mounts in Pontevedra.
More information in Meigalicia and finished conditions in this pdf
Dates and places:
- On September 26 and October 3 (Baixa Limia)
Rectoral of Ansemil. Muds of Ansemil s/n – Celanova
- On the 10th and 17th of October (Morte gives Coast)
Building of Multiple Services of the Tower. Rúa A s/n Tower - Vimianzo
- On the 24th and 31st of October (Serra do Édramo)
On the 24th – The Large house of the Xacobeo. Peculiar Rúa do s/n – Triacastela
On the 31st – Hotel NH Alfonso IX. Peculiar Rúa do, 29 – Sarria
- On the 7th and 14th of November (Area of Sorrow Trevinca)
Hotel Deer. Xares s/n – To Veiga
- On the 21st and 28th of November (It marinates They Are Shown)
Center of interpretation "Terras of Blue Cobalt”. Rúa gives Feira s/n – Cervo
- On the 5th and 12th of December (Terra of Mounts)
Regional center of Tabeirós – Terra of Mounts. Toedo s/n – To Road

Holidays in Gallicia in October

Holidays of tourist interest
From 2 to 12 Holiday of the shellfish. Or Grove (Pontevedra)
On the 3rd and 4th Holiday you give fabas. Vilanova of Lourenzá (Lugo)
From 4 to 12 San Froilán. Lugo
On the 18th Grasp San Lucas. Mondoñedo (Lugo)

Gastronomic holidays
On the 10th Holiday do mel. Or Valadouro (Lugo)
On the 18th Pilgrimage of San Lucas. Chantada (lugo)
Religious holidays
On the 1st and 2nd Nosa Señora gives Escravitude. Electoral roll (A Coruna)
On the 2nd and 9th Nosa Señora of Pastoriza. Arteixo (A Coruna)
On the 7th Nosa Señora do Rosary. A Coruna (Boss of the city); Electoral roll (A Coruna); Expert Ermidas - Or Skittle, To Pobra de Trives, to Teixeira (Ourense); Cotobade (Pontevedra).
On the 7th and 8th San Froilán. To Veiga - To Pobra de Brollón (Lugo).
On the 12th Holiday of the Hispanic world. Baiona (Pontevedra)
On the 12th Nosa Señora do Prop. Folladela-Melide, Irixoa (A Coruna); Vilaestrofe-Cervo (Lugo); Alixo-O Barco of Valdeorras; Chamusiños-Trasmiras, Muiños (Ourense); Baíña-Agolada (Pontevedra).
On the 28th Holiday of San Simón. Vilanova of Arousa (Pontevedra)

Healthy walk in O Piñor

Marta del Concello de Piñor informs me that on Sunday, the 25th of October "III Andaina Saudable" will take place. The route will be on the banks of the Rio Arenteiro and the term to register is until Friday, the 23rd.
Concello de Piñor tries with this walk to encourage healthy life habits between persons of all the ages, like the sport outdoors, the healthy meal and the social relations of brotherhood and also to announce another part of the big natural and cultural heritage of this concello.
Contact phones: 988 403 236 / 610 722 131

Holidays in Gallicia. November, 2009

November is the month of the magostos, magic tradition and autumn ritual concerning the chestnut.
Until November 11 day of St Martin the Holidays of the Magosto are celebrated in the whole Gallicia, with principal protagonist the chestnuts the wine of the ground and the bonfires to roast them and to defend themselves from the cold.
It is part of the ritual of the holiday the face blackens with the ashes, to jump the bonfires to attract the good luck, and to amuse itself with traditional games, counting legends and to sing popular songs, to finish off with a good hot punch along with the fire. In Ourense the Holiday of Magosto de San Martiño of the 11th is declared of tourist interest.
Holidays of tourist interest
On the 7th and 8th Holiday gives Chestnut and do Cogomelo. Riós (Ourense).
On the 11th Holiday of the Magosto. Ourense.
Annual fairs
On the 1st It Takes a break of Saints. Domestic animals and products of the country. Monterroso (Lugo).
On the 11th It Takes a break of San Martiño. Cattle and machinery in Teo (A Coruna).
On the 30th It Takes a break of Santo André. To Rúa (Ourense).
Religious and traditional holidays
On the 1st All you Holy. Religious holiday with special
tradition in some places of Gallicia. Betanzos and
Carnota (A Coruna) Xermade (Lugo).
On the 11th San Martiño. Celebrations in the city of Ourense.
Holiday in Huts, Lousame, Noia and Oroso (A Coruna); Spades of Rei, Vilalba and Quiroga (Lugo); Amoeiro, Nogueira de Ramuín and Vilariño de Conso (Ourense); and A Road, Bueu, O Rosebush, Moaña, Lalín and Vilanova de Arousa (Pontevedra).

The delight of the Gothic cemeteries of Gallicia

In Gallicia to any foreign one of the first thing that attracts attention of him or shocks him it is the closeness of the cemeteries to the villages or of the most natural form his place between the alive ones being part of the daily coexistence.
In these dates of deceased we repeat as we did last year with the post of tourist cemeteries of Gallicia with this special cult to the death that we have the Galicians, recommending the visit to Gothic cemeteries full of delight and that are historical-artistic authentic monuments.
There are cemeteries that are authentic works of art like those of the way of the north to Santiago, the cemeteries Are in parishes of A Terra Chá in grounds of neogothic Vilalba of declared Goiriz historical - artistic monument, that of San Xoan of Dawn, and that of Román that it surrounds the church parroqial with showy crosses of stone and big towers of hewing of stone of perfect finished and the ancient cemetery of declared Mondoñedo also historical - artistic monument. Old cemetery that he emphasizes for the baroque forms of many graves and pantheons and place of personages' meeting of the Galician culture.

Holidays in Gallicia. December, 2009

Gastronomic holidays
On the 6th Holiday of the "meat richada". Specialty prepared with veal in Forcarei (Pontevedra)
On the 20th It Takes a break of the capon. Villalba (Lugo) Puja of the best home-made chickens of the region, fattened thoroughly for the banquets of Christmas.

Religious and traditional holidays
On the 4th Santa Barbara. Festas, Sabuguido-Vilariño de Conso (Ourense).
On the 6th San Nicolao. Abegondo (A Coruna).
On the 8th Blessed Virgin Concepcion. Cambre (A Coruna), Sober (Lugo), Or Ship of Valdeorras and A Pobra de Trives (Ourense); and Cerdedo and Vila of Crossings (Pontevedra).
On the 8th Nosa Señora do Xurés. Riocaldo-Lobios (Ourense)
On the 9th Saint Leocadia. Guitiriz (Lugo).
On the 10th Santa Eulalia. Cee, Dumbría, Vedra and Mazaricos (A Coruna); Ribadeo (Lugo); Plane (Ourense); and Moaña, Ribadumia and Silleda (Pontevedra).
On the 13th Saint Lucia. Arteixo, Boimorto, Oza two Rivers, Rianxo and Val do Dubra (A Coruna); Taboada (Lugo); Rairo, Smear, Larouco and Vilamartín de Valdeorras (Ourense); Gondomar (Pontevedra).
On the 18th Nosa Señora gives O. Seixalbo-Ourense; and Vilanova de Arousa (Pontevedra).
On the 21st San Tomé. Entrimo (Ourense).
On the Holy 26th Estevo. Hut of Bergantiños, Huts, Carral, Ceee and Culleredo (A Coruna); Exceeded To Pobra de Trives A Rúa (Ourense); Cerdedo and Vilanova de Arousa (Pontevedra).
On the 30th Movement of the remains of Apostle Santiago. Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela (A Coruna).
On the 31st San Silvestre. Carnota (A Coruna) and Lobios (Ourense).

Gastronomic days of the Spider-crab in O Grove

From November 28 until December 8 there will be celebrated VII Gastronomic Days of the Spider-crab in O Grove.

For 11 days, in the different restaurants with the emblem of the days, they will be able to be tasted prepared special where the spider-crab will be the star.
Also, a series of activities will be carried out like: you visit guidas for the market of hiring and the wharf, contest of living spider-crab, performance of pipers and folk musician in the taking part restaurants and kitchen demonstration in alive with recipe by means of spider-crab, between others.
To unload informative leaflet

The Guide Michelín 2010 in Gallicia. Two new stars

To Station of Cambre and Expert Herons of Malpica there are the new Galician stars of the Guide Michelin 2010
To Station, of Cambre, and Expert Herons, of Malpica, raise to nine the restaurants with star Michelín in Gallicia, one more than in the previous year.
Gallicia extends to nine his restaurants with star. The finished list is: He marries Brown (A Coruna), Retirement is given by Costiña (Bent Saint), There marries Marcelo (Santiago), Yayo Daporta (Cambados), Rexidora (Ourense), House Solla in Poio and Pepe Vieira Camiño gives Serpe in Raxó and the new ones earlier mentioned A Station (Cambre) and Expert Herons (Malpica). For provinces there are five for A Coruna, three for Pontevedra and one for Ourense.
The new stars Michelín are restaurants specializing in plates of fish. To Station with period quality products together with a very good service and Expert Herons seaworthy kitchen of the sea of Celeiro.
The bad news is the loss of the Bar of Rotilio of his star after 12 years continued with her.
In Spain the news is the third star for The Celler of Dog Rock (Girona), his authorization had being a clamor and finally it comes.
Seven are the restaurants with three stars Michelin, all in the Basque Country and Catalonia: Juan Mari Arzak, restaurant Arzak (San Sebastian), Santi Santamaría, restaurant Dog Broad beans (San Celoni), Ferrán Adriá, restaurant The Bulli (Roses), Martín Berasategui, restaurant Martín Berasategui (Lasarte), Carme Ruscalleda (Sant Pau) and Pedro Subijana (San Sebastian).y mentioned Joan Roca del Celler of Dog Rock (Girona). They raise to two stars the restaurants There marries Marcial de Arriondas (Asturias), Lasarte of Barcelona, The patio of the Casino (Madrid), and They Cols (Olot).

Bethlehem of Baltar in Ourense

For these Christmas dates I am useful to wish all the readership one Happy Christmas and a very prosperous Xacobeo, and following the line of other years with the Bethlehem of Valga of and the nativity scenes route today we recommend the Bethlehem of Baltar in Ourense.
(If you want to vote for the best Galician nativity scene between the best you can do it in the blog atarde).
Placed in the church of San Cosme in the old Ourense helmet, is one of the most visited nativity scenes from the whole Gallicia. It is an artistic nativity scene with figures of Arturo Baltar, stage of Virxilio and murals of xaime Quesada. He proves to be scenes, buildings and typical popular Ourense personages.

Holidays in Gallicia. January, 2010

On the 7th Day of the rice pudding. Ferrol (A Coruna)
On the 15th Holiday of the tripe. Vilanova of Arousa (Pontevedra)
On the 17th Holiday of the sausage. Abedes-Verín (Ourense)
On the 23rd Festa do dump it. Or Ship of Valdeorras (Ourense)
Folk holidays
On the 5th Kings' Cavalcade. Parade of chariots and performances of groups of dance in
the cities and Galician towns.
On the 15th Pilgrimage of San Mauro. Mount of A Curota. To Pobra do Caramiñal (A Coruna).
On the 19th San Sebastian. On the second fachos. Castro Caldelas (Ourense).
Holidays of tourist interest of Gallicia
On the 20th You Dance of San Sebastian. Aldan-Cangas (Pontevedra).
Fairs
On the 6th Feira de Reis. To Cañiza (Pontevedra).
Religious holidays
On the 6th Nosa Señora do Leite. Riofrío-Mondariz (Pontevedra)
On the 13th San Amaro. Holiday of the sausage. Or Incio (Lugo)
On the 15th San Mauro. Popular holiday with religious acts and verbenas. Or Ship of Valdeorras (Ourense). Boss of the town. Religious holidays in ames (A Coruna), Sober (Lugo), To Pobra de Trives (Ourense) and Country houses of Borbén and Lalín (Pontevedra). Pilgrimage of San Mauro Abade in Camposancos-A Guarda (Pontevedra).
On the 17th Santo Anthony Abade. Petín, Plane, Monterrei (Ourense); Hut - spade of Rei (Lugo); Cambados (Pontevedra).
On the 20th San Sebastian. Boqueixón and Carnota (A Coruna), Spades of Rei (Lugo), Carballeda de Avia and Castro Caldelas (Ourense); and Pontevedra.
On the 28th San Tirso. Spades of Rei (Lugo).

Xacobeo 2010. The Milky Way

Xacobeo 2010 Now is when, Gallicia is where.
The Milky Way in the Middle Age was very crowded, later it was forgotten lightly and in the current epoch it has taken a big heyday again, has been declared by the UNESCO Patrimony of the Humanity.

There is a Holy Year Xacobeo the year in which on July 25 (festivity of Apostle Santiago) it falls down in Sunday. The next one will not be even in 11 years, for it this year there is a good motive for visiting Gallicia. In the holy year the pilgrims to Santiago can gain the jubilee visiting the grave of Apostle Santiago in the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela.
For his historical and spiritual transcendency, the Milky Way represents a milestone in the evolution of the western Culture, a millennial tie established between the different peoples of an Europe that, in the central centuries of the Middle Age, pilgrim does to herself and directs his steps towards the Hispanic finisterre to visit the grave of Apostle Santiago. Concerning this tomb he was constructing himself a cathedral and arranging a city, in order to shelter the sacred relics, to attend to the requirements of the cult jacobeo and to prepare appropriately the arrival of the pilgrims who, already in the Xth century, were coming to Locus Sancti Iacobi of the Christian Spain and of other parts of Europe. With the time, most of the grounds of Occident managed to be related thanks to the welfare infrastructure, devocional and of thought formed by the ways of peregrination and turning into the principal route of European cultural transmission.
From the Holy Year 1982, a new resurgence lives through the way with the rehabilitation and valuation of the Milky Way like cultural property. A patrimony that materializes in the physical infrastructure and in his historical-artistic monumental wealth intimately tied to the spiritual, hospitable demand and of services needed for peculiar and devout. Known it is that, along this sacred itinerary, there arose cathedrals, monasteries, churches, chapels, hospitals, towns, villages, defensive sets, bridges and, finally, a big number of historical places children of the peregrination to Santiago and that in the holy years it complements itself with a rich cultural offer.

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Holidays in Gallicia. February, 2010

Holidays of tourist interest
Of 12 to 16 Entroido. The carnivals believe between Xinzo de Limia and the nearby concellos the only route: in Laza the Peliqueiros, in Verín the Cigarróns, in grounds of Viana do Drunk or in Manzaneda the Boteiros, and in the same Xinzo de Limia the Screens that invade the streets. In Viana do Drunk coinciding with the Entroido, there is celebrated the Holiday of the Androlla in which there gets excited this sausage done by means of ribs of pig.

The cycle of Entroido de Xinzo of Limia spreads from January 24 with the Sunday celebration Fareleiro, on February 21 when on Sunday of Piñata it puts the final point to the most famous holidays of this municipality. All different ones for his disguises and masks, in which every epoch leaves something of, but his origin gets lost in the time, in the celebrations related to the agrarian spring holidays.
Gastronomic holidays
On the 3rd San Brais. Meat auction, especially pig languages. Capela-Toques (A Coruna)
On the 4th Exaltation of the Sausage. Vila of Crossings (Pontevedra).
On the 6-7th Holiday of the Sausage. To Pobra de Trives (Ourense).
On the 7th It Takes a break of the Stew. Lalín (Ponteveda).

Religious holidays
On the 2nd Candelaría. Becerreá, Cervo (Lugo); Meaño, Or Rosebush (Pontevedra).
On the 3rd San Brais. Vimianzo (A Coruna); Monforte de Lemos (Lugo); Xunqueira de Ambia (Ourense); Gondomar, Porriño, Salvaterra do Miño, Salceda of Marry (Pontevedra) them.
On the 5th Saint Águeda. San Cristovo de Cea (Ourense).
Source: News Tourism Turgalicia

Pontevedra protagonist of "cities with delight" of The Country Aguilar

The architectural and monumental set, the accessible green spaces to only five minutes of the center, idyllic squares in full heart of the old area... Many are the motives that they justify that Pontevedra was managing to enter the select club that the guide shapes for travelers "Cities with delight" that edits The Country Aguilar for several years.

With the front dedicated to the Square of the Firewood and with more than 180 pages to color, the publication highlights the virtues of "Boa Vila" as one of the most valuable tourist destinations of the state panorama.
The Project Manager says that it is one of the most charming cities of Spain, that sadly one does not know as it owed, but that a place must have between not more than 15 Spanish cities of which it is possible to say that it is worth while bending the car to visit it. Pontevedra is wonderful and although it is the number XIX of the collection we had a hollow reserved from the beginning, says the author of the guide.
Routes.
Apart from a generous photographic sample the guide is structured about three axis: the monumental Pontevedra (with special attention to the historical center), the Pontevedra of the widening and of the XIXth century (with allusions to the gatherings of the intelligentsia that gave cause for the foundation of the Galleguism) and the green Pontevedra.
Source: Newspaper of Pontevedra

Holidays in Gallicia. March, 2010

Holidays of tourist interest
On the 6th and 7th Holiday of the Arrival of the Spotted Caravel. The town pontevedresa celebrates the return of the primeira expedition to America
of admiral Cristóbal Columbus with the announcement of the descubrimento. Baiona (Pontevedra).
On the 7th Feira of the Cheese of Arzúa. The Holiday of the Cheese
his 35 fulfills anniversary of uninterrupted celebration
and that in addition to extolling and tasting
famous cheese, diverse activities are realized
artistic, cultural, folk … Arzúa (A Coruna).
From 26 to 28 I Find tasting of "millo curved". Singular event
in that tradition, gastronomy and ethnographic recovery conjugates. Meiro-Bueu (Pontevedra).
On the 27th and 28th It Takes a break of the Wine of Amandi. Sober (Lugo).

Gastronomic holidays
On the 13th and 14th It Takes a break of the Wine. Chantada (Lugo).
Folk holidays
On the 18th Night of the Pips. Ferrol (A Coruna).
On the 19th and 20th Night of the Pips. Mugardos (A Coruna).
On the 27th and 28th Holiday of the Reconquest. Vigo (Pontevedra).