Why come here?
If you look beyond the superficial aspects – such as decorative tiles, pastel de nata and, for example, Fado – you’ll discover something much deeper.Here lies one of Europe’s richest megalithic landscapes, older than the pyramids. Here, Celtic tribes, Roman legions and Moorish dynasties walked the same hills. Here, the Knights Templar built their final, secret stronghold. And here, Europe literally ends: on the cliffs of Cabo da Roca and Cabo de São Vicente, humanity stood face to face with the end of the known world for centuries.
Galicia is known, amongst other things, as the terminus of the Camino to Santiago de Compostela, the famous pilgrimage route.
There is so much to experience and feel in these regions.
This guide follows the structure you may already be familiar with from our other travel guides: we start underground, with the rock itself, and work our way up from there to the landscape and nature, to the people who settled there, to their stories and, finally, to what we call the ‘energy of the land’. Along the way, we’ll point you towards the areas we’ll explore in more depth later, in separate mini-guides: Sintra, the Alentejo around Évora, and more.
