The sentencing of mayor Manuel Vicente Alonso Historical milestone · Tomiño, Baixo Miño, Pontevedra Image of Tomiño, not of the place itself. After the military coup of 18 July 1936, the mayor of Tomiño was arrested and sentenced to death; the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment, in a frontier concello where the repression was especially harsh. 1936 Photo: Adrián Estévez (gl:User:Estevoaei) (CC BY-SA 4.0) What to see and do in Tomiño