To sail laughs in it of Pontevedra

It laughs it of Pontevedra competes in importance with its two brothers those of Vigo and the one of Arousa, and like the other two, it must much offer to the fan to the nautical one.

Outside her, the extended island of Ons protects its waters especially those of the North coast to a certain extent. Ría with wedge form is abre between the End of Cabicastro, located to the west of the Beach of Cinnamons, to the north, and the Centoleira End, to the south. The mouth of the Lérez river closes the bottom already laughs of it near the city of Pontevedra, where the river is united to the sea, to about 14 km of the mouth.

Relatively near the coast, in the entrance of Ría de Pontevedra, they locate the Illas de Ons that was inhabited from the antiquity. Of forms smoother than Cíes, the Ons a resisted coastal profile presents/displays just as those, less steep towards the interior of laughs whereas they dominate cliffs towards the west, in which we found caves like the spectacular “Cova again do Inferno”. And, like in You back water, in Ons the fauna finds a place privileged. But in the Ons the human presence historically greater having been has been inhabited until the Fifties of century twenty. At the moment most of the population lives in the island solely in summer.

It laughs in it of Pontevedra and in their shores, the art and history are combined to please of the traveller and the navigator. In their margins beautiful cities like Pontevedra are located; monasteries, like the one of Poio or, a little more moved away, Armenteira; towns like those of Marin, that combines its military destiny with the fishing, or Bueu, clearly fishing and shellfish; tourist and residential centers like Grove Or Vicente Sanxenxo, Portonovo or San; colorful towns like Aldán - located at heart of its small cove, appendix of the one of Pontevedra, Rax., Combarro or Mogor.

Pontevedra, the provincial capital, is a sensible city, without city-planning gigantisms that the enchantment of the past combines in its ample old part, happily respected with the present development. In its interior they appear beautiful churches like the ruins of Santo Domingo, San Francisco, Santa Maria the Major, To Pilgrim and a Provincial Museum that, possibly, is visited of Galicia by the wealth of their bottoms. Pontevedra was the mother country of great sailors (Vine shoot, Nodal, etc.) who discovered earth for Spain.

Closely together is Marin, a modern town, with hardly vestiges of the past. From the top of the mount located to its backs is a viewpoint that allows you laugh to contemplate them of Vigo and Pontevedra.

The sandy ground wealth is great laughs within it emphasizing by its tourist importance Sanxenxo whose population multiplies in summer. The new constructions, nevertheless, swept the rest of the old population. Everything is modern.

Quite the opposite happened in the Beach of the Sent one, a sandy ground of more than 4 km pertaining to the city councils of Or Grove and Sanxenxo, where the regeneration of the system to dunar has caused the survival of one of visited beaches more in Galicia. Associated her they appear beautiful legend as the one of the baths of “it novates waves” to find pair or to assure descendants. And, in his edges they appear the Hermitage of Santa Maria gives Sent and the Tower gives Sent possible rest of old light.

Towards the west Grove is located more Or, a town that has made of the marine gastronomy a cult that can “be practiced” in different tascas, taverns and restaurants that offer the most exquisite seafood and fish.

And as a appendix the Illa is located gives Toxa, a splendid enclosure that counts on magnificent hotel facilities, constructed to century principle. In the nights of A Toxa Alvaro Cunqueiro who is “a strange and consoled silence, only disturbed by the wind of the pines or by the sea said that sings in the Sent neighbor”.