Discover the historic heritage of Galicia

The medieval fortress of the Soutomaior family, transformed into a Neo-Gothic palace and museum, surrounded by a botanical garden with centuries-old trees and an award-winning camellia collection.

Dedicated to Saint Martin, Ourense Cathedral is one of Spain's great Romanesque churches and a masterpiece of the Galician Middle Ages, with portals that bear the legacy of Master Mateo.

The final destination of the Camino de Santiago and, according to tradition, the resting place of the tomb of the Apostle, Compostela's cathedral was one of the great pilgrimage destinations of medieval Europe.

The Co-Cathedral of St Julian, dedicated to the patron saint of Ferrol, is the city's great Catholic church and has shared its rank with Mondoñedo Cathedral since 1959.

A late 19th-century Neo-Gothic church in Placeres, Lourizán, built on the site of an earlier chapel at the end of the bar of the port of Pontevedra.

A Cistercian monastery of royal foundation in Ourense, now Trappist, whose economic and social influence shaped the surrounding area and lands much further afield for centuries.

A Baroque sanctuary in Muxía, facing the rocks that legend identifies as the Virgin's stone boat, and the Atlantic finishing point for many pilgrims on the Camino de Santiago.