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GRANDE RIVER: A SOURCE OF WEALTH
The parish and the urban centre of Ponte do Porto run along the banks of the Grande river. The river mouth flows into the Camariñas ria, creating a...
3.75 km from this iBeaken
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PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE RIA
This coastal point is called the “Old Castle” on account of the existence of two battery sections dating back to before the...
3.91 km from this iBeaken
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GRANDE RIVER: A SOURCE OF WEALTH
The parish and the urban centre of Ponte do Porto run along the banks of the Grande river. The river mouth flows into the Camariñas ria, creating a...
3.94 km from this iBeaken
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MEN´S GUARDIAN
Monte Farelo, where the chapel of the Virxe do Monte (18th century) stands, is a strategic area close to Cape Vilán. From this promontory (about 60...
4.09 km from this iBeaken
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THE ORANGES WRECK
The Coenda Longa Beach is a pebbly beach or, as it is called here, a “coido de bolos”, very typical of Camariñas’ granite...
4.16 km from this iBeaken
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THE BIGGEST FISH FARM IN THE WORLD
Since its opening in 2005 and until recently, the fish farm belonging to the Stolt Sea Farm company was the world’s largest. It has an area...
4.19 km from this iBeaken
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THE TRAGEDY OF THE SERPENT
One of the most deadly places in the Costa da Morte is the area between Boi Point and Cagada Point, that has witnessed eight shipwrecks with 245...
4.27 km from this iBeaken
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THE GERM OF VILÁN LIGHTHOUSE
You are at the Cape Vilán’s old lighthouse (1854).
Following two fatal wrecks at Boi Point, one of them the Serpent’s (1890),...
4.37 km from this iBeaken
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LIGHT OF THE SEA
The sinking of the English battleship HMS Serpent (1890) in Boi Point gave an impulse to the construction of the current lighthouse and its...
4.37 km from this iBeaken
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BENEDICTINES AND VIKINGS
The place where this church stands today was home to the twice-rebuilt Benedictine monastery –the black monks– of Santa Mariña de Tosto. It is...
4.61 km from this iBeaken