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What to see and do in Ponteceso

What to see and do in Ponteceso (Bergantiños, A Coruña): 11 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 1 Monuments · 2 Nature · 2 Activities · 3 Curiosities · 2 Historical milestones

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What to see and do in Ponteceso

Ponteceso
Village
Ponteceso is a concello of about 5,300 inhabitants situated in the comarca of Bergantiños, at the mouth of the river Anllóns, where Eduardo Pondal, author of the lyrics of the Galician anthem, was born in 1835. The municipality is built around the settlements of Ponteceso, Corme-Puerto and Cospindo, with the fishing town of Corme, together with Tella, being the most populous. Corme lives from the gathering of percebe and sea urchin, holds the municipality's only fishing port and has the main mussel-bateas facility on the Costa da Morte. In the inland parishes agriculture and livestock farming are maintained, especially pig farming and dairy operations. Its fishing town of Corme dedicates a festival to the percebe every July.
Lighthouse of Punta Roncudo
Monument
A lighthouse brought into service in 1924, twin of the one at Punta de Laxe, on a cape of rugged rock facing Corme; the sea that breaks at its foot produces the goose barnacles that made this point of the Costa da Morte internationally famous.
Monte Branco
Nature
A climbing dune 192 metres high piled up by the wind on the slope that closes the mouth of the Anllóns; it is cited as the highest mobile dune in Europe and from its top you look down on the sand spit of A Barra.
Beach of Balarés
Nature
A sheltered beach in the Corme e Laxe estuary, next to a pine wood and to the mouth of the Anllóns, on a stretch of coast where the estuary turns into marshland before opening fully to the Atlantic.
Birthplace of Eduardo Pondal
Curiosity
In this pazo beside the mouth of the Anllóns river, Eduardo María González-Pondal y Abente was born on 8 February 1835, the youngest of seven siblings in a hidalgo family enriched by emigration to America. A Galician regionalist poet, he wrote in both Spanish and Galician and frequented, in Santiago, the tertulias of the Liceo San Agustín alongside Rosalía de Castro, Manuel Murguía and Aurelio Aguirre, as well as the A Coruña tertulia A Cova Céltica. He worked as a Navy doctor in Ferrol before giving up the profession and retiring to his family home, from where he travelled frequently to La Coruña, the city where he died in 1917. The opening stanzas of his poem Os Pinos, set to music by Pascual Veiga, premiered in La Habana in 1907 as a Galician anthem.
Serpent Stone of Gondomil
Curiosity
A granite block in the parish of Corme on whose side a great winged serpent is carved, a motif held to be pre-Roman; centuries later it was Christianised by planting a cross on the rock itself.
Crosses of the Roncudo goose-barnacle gatherers
Curiosity
A group of stone crosses scattered over the rocks of the cape in memory of the percebeiros who drowned and whose bodies were never found; their widows and descendants go on tending them generation after generation.
Festival of o Percebe de Corme
Activity
A food festival held in the first week of July in Corme Porto, devoted to the goose barnacle prised off the rocks of Cabo Roncudo, reckoned among the finest on the whole Atlantic coast.
The Prestige and the goose-barnacle gatherers of Roncudo
Historical milestone
The tanker's spill covered in 2002 with fuel oil the rocks of the Roncudo, the best goose barnacle ground in Galicia, and forced the harvest to be closed for months while the shellfish gatherers themselves cleaned the stones.
Festival of o Percebe do Roncudo
Activity
A July event in Corme devoted to the goose barnacle prised off the rocks of the cape of O Roncudo, considered among the best in the country; it includes tastings and a tribute to the percebeiros lost at sea.
The birth of Eduardo Pondal
Historical milestone
In the family house beside the river Anllóns was born, on 6 February 1835, Eduardo María González-Pondal Abente, a Galician rexionalista poet who wrote in Castilian and Galician, author of Queixumes dos pinos; a fragment of his poem Os Pinos became the anthem of Galicia. He was one of the three great lyric voices of the Rexurdimento, alongside Rosalía de Castro and Manuel Curros Enríquez, and in 1965 the Día das Letras Galegas was dedicated to him. He lost his mother when he was one year old, studied in Santiago de Compostela and briefly worked as a military doctor before retiring to his father's house. The landscape of the estuary and the mountains of Nemiña runs through his whole body of work. He died in A Coruña on 8 March 1917.