A Coruña
Light, Stone, Sea and Glass...
Here is the Head City, keeper and key of the kingdom of Galicia. It was born from a port and a lighthouse... It was called Brigantia, County of Lighthouse, and Crunia... Today, A Coruña
continues to be the lighthouse that lights the sailor at night and the city-lighthouse that shows the route to the future.

We arrive in A Coruña through the bridge called Ponte da Pasaxe to discover or rediscover it, to live its modern and secular attractiveness.
By the way, we are near the Ponte do Burgo. The oldest royal path passed along this bridge towards A Coruña.
There are really other spots to enter the city but we enter through the way coming from Madrid or Lugo that gets into A Coruña through the Ponte da Pasaxe.
The dense traffic shows us what we are going to find a bit later: the modern city with wide roads and crowds of industrious people. But A Coruña is also a city where you can have a rest, a tourist and cultural city, which has achieved the difficult balance and harmony between past and present.
At the bottom of Ponte we can find two options: the old access going around the coast or the new Alfonso Molina Avenue, which leads us to the centre of A Coruña.
A stop on the way lets us have a small sight of the city that is waiting for us. In the distance, the Hercules Tower (Torre de Hércules) reminds us of its leader and symbol role. It lies in the northern part of the city and is considered the lady of the night in the sea of A Coruña.
We enter the great city in northern Galicia: a quarter of a million people, twenty centuries of history and a privileged place between earth and sea.

A Coruña, which was nearly an island many years ago, is nowadays an urban peninsula whose corners are full of activity and life.

We start the route at the junction of both ways.
And here we already find the port, its first raison dêtre.
Here we find the oil, woods and fishing port, which was already important two thousand years ago.
when Julius Caesar arrived there with his army. It was coveted by the Normans...
Charles I went out from here towards Germany and the Empire.
The Spanish Armada left this port to fight against England. The port in A Coruña is nowadays a place of great activity, a source of wealth and a guarantee to connect the city with all the port cities in the world.
Near the place where we are now, in the park of Santa Margarita (St Margaret), we find the Science House (Casa de las Ciencias), which is a good example of the cultural role of the city. It is an initiative from the town council of this city, the second in Spain as far as its importance is concerned. The wonderful installations show the visitors, and mainly the children, the big world that surrounds us: the natural environment -rural or urban- and the cosmos.
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