Nowhere is the Celtic heritage more visible than at the Hill-fort at Baroña.
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The Gallegans’ roots are more Celtic, their skin is pale and they are a lot less Latin in attitude and culture than their counterparts down south. The Galicians are a totally different type of folk to their Moorish-influenced cousins from Andalucia. The view from my window across the mussel beds from their cliff-top home is breathtaking. Run by Alejandro Gonzalez and his wife, Loli, it offers me the perfect base for a couple of nights. The Casa Insuela is at Palmeira in the south of Barbanza. It is only after I stop off to admire the view and take some photographs that I realise that the young man at Europcar hasn’t bothered to tell me that I need to have my clutch flat on the floor to re-start my Toyota Yaris. Here, the ‘Ria Arousa’, the tidal Arousa River, with its clean water, produces more mussels than anywhere else in the world. I start my four day trip in Barbanza, a couple of hours drive south of Santiago de Compostela. It is a great way to get to meet the locals, the people best placed to advise you what to see and where to eat. They are protecting a lot of their coastline and their ‘turismo rural’ programme gives you access, rather like the French gite system, to over 500 privately-run homes the length and breadth of the region. Photo: Adobe StockĮven better the Galician authorities are hell bent on avoiding the appalling over-development that has ruined much of Andalucia.
Sunset at the San Andrés inlet, Cedeira, A Coruña, Galicia.
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