MY CITY: A CORUÑA,

GALICIA

BY PEDRO BLANCO, ANGEL NEIRA AND ÍKER ARES

TYPICAL FOOD:

OMELETTE: FILLOAS AND OREJAS:

OCTOPUS:

PERCEBES:

COCIDO:

MONUMENTS:HERCULES’S TOWER: MILLENIUM’S TOWER: THE OBELISK: It’s the world's oldest Roman It’s a conmemoration monument One of the most lighthouse still in operation. of the start of the 21st century. importants galician

monuments.

SPORTS: REAL CLUB DEPORTIVO DE LA CORUÑA: It’s the official football team of A Coruña

HOCKEY CLUB LICEO: One of the best spanish hockey’s club

BASQUET CORUÑA: The coruña’s basketball team

JUDO CLUB CORUÑA: The most important and one of the best judo clubs of Galicia

WHERE IS A CORUÑA, GALICIA?Galicia is at the northwest of Spain. It’s formed by four province: Orense, Lugo, Pontevedra

and A Coruña. Galicia is located at the north of Portugal, right here.

CURIOSITIES:In Galicia there are two language the spanish and the galician, one language only

uses in Galicia, which is very similar to Spanish and Portuguese.

Galicia is a place very wet, where the rain is so normally, this causes that Galicia be

the place with more vegetation in Spain.

Galicia is famous for its beaches, its fishing ports, its inhabitants… But one of the

more importants reasons to be famous is the “Camino de Santiago”, one of the most

importants cristians routes, which finished in the “Catedral de Santiago”.

THE CAPITAL OF A CORUÑA: SANTIAGO

Santiago de Compostela is the capital of A Coruña, and is very famous around the world

for the cristian route that finished in this city (such us we say in the last point). This route is

undefined cause you can begin the route where you want. But the most famous routes

are two that begins in the northeast of Spain, near the Pyrenees. The history of this city

and this cathedral explain that the corpse of the apostle Santiago was in the cathedral.