Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #2 in A Coruña, Spain

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Tour Facts

Number of sights 18 sights
Distance 4.2 km
Ascend 78 m
Descend 98 m

Explore A Coruña in Spain with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Individual Sights in A Coruña

Sight 1: Domus - Man House

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Domus - Man House Marcus / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Domus, formerly known in Spanish as "Casa del Hombre", is a science museum located in A Coruña, in Galicia, Spain. It was inaugurated on April 7, 1995.

Wikipedia: Domus (museum) (EN), Website, Payment Website

895 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 2: Isabel Zendal Gómez

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Isabel Zendal Gómez was a Spanish nurse from Galicia who took part in the Balmis Expedition, which took smallpox vaccination to South America and Asia.

Wikipedia: Isabel Zendal (EN)

118 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 3: The Fine Arts Museum

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The Museum of Fine Arts of A Coruña, state-owned and managed transferred to the Ministry of Culture, Education and University of the Xunta de Galicia, is a modern building that sits in the former convent of the Capuchins.

Wikipedia: Museo de Belas Artes da Coruña (GL), Website

261 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 4: Casares Quiroga House Museum

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Casares Quiroga House Museum

Santiago Casares y Quiroga was Prime Minister of Spain from 13 May to 19 July 1936.

Wikipedia: Santiago Casares Quiroga (EN), Website

110 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 5: Porlier

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Porlier

Juan Díaz Porlier, also known as the "Marquesito", was a Spanish military commander active during the Peninsular War.

Wikipedia: Juan Díaz Porlier (EN)

236 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 6: Igrexa de San Xurxo

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Igrexa de San Xurxo (English: Church of Saint George) is a church in A Coruña, Province of A Coruña, Galicia, Spain. It is built in the baroque style.

Wikipedia: Igrexa de San Xurxo (A Coruña) (EN)

136 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 7: Igrexa de San Nicolás

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The church of San Nicolao is a baroque -style religious temple located in A Coruña. It is one of the historical parishes of the city of A Coruña, with Santa María, Santiago and San Xurxo.

Wikipedia: Igrexa de San Nicolao da Coruña (GL), Website

67 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 8: Vicente Risco

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Vicente Risco

Vicente Martínez Risco Agüero was a Galician intellectual of the 20th century. He was a founder member of Xeración Nós, and among the most important figures in the history of Galician literature. He is well regarded for his writings on Galician nationalism, as well as a contributor to the Galician New Narrative. He is also the father of Spanish novelist and critic Antonio Risco.

Wikipedia: Vicente Risco (EN)

25 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 9: Wenceslao Fernández Flórez

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Wenceslao Fernández Flórez

Wenceslao Fernández Flórez was a popular Galician journalist and novelist of the early 20th century. Throughout his career, he retained an intense fondness for the land of his birth.

Wikipedia: Wenceslao Fernández Flórez (EN)

183 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 10: Galerías da Mariña

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A gallery is a constructive element and architectural composition, used in a large part of the northern peninsular, especially in the Galician architecture of the 19th and 20th centuries. In Galician residential bourgeois architecture, it reached its highest degree of development by becoming a fundamental part of residential buildings.

Wikipedia: Galería (arquitectura) (GL)

133 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 11: Rosalía de Castro Theatre

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Rosalía de Castro Theatre

The Rosalía de Castro Theatre is a cultural institution in the city of A Coruña, municipally owned, managed by the Municipal Institute Coruña Espectáculos (IMCE) of the City Council of A Coruña and directed by Javier Sabadie Iglesias. It is a scenic representation centre located in the centre of the Herculean city, in the middle of Calle Real and very close to the Plaza de María Pita. It has also been located since May 20, 1994, the Library of the Provincial Council of A Coruña.

Wikipedia: Teatro Rosalía de Castro (GL), Website

266 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 12: Colon Theatre

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Colon Theatre

The Teatro Colón is a scenic performance centre located in the gardens of Méndez Núñez, centre of the city of A Coruña. The Teatro Colón is owned by the Provincial Council of A Coruña and managed by Novacaixagalicia since its reopening in 2006.

Wikipedia: Teatro Colón da Coruña (GL), Website

194 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 13: Kiosk Afonso

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Kiosk Afonsoamaianos from Galicia / CC BY 2.0

The Quiosco Alfonso, Kiosco Alfonso or Quiosco Afonso is an exhibition hall in the city of A Coruña. It carries out all kinds of exhibitions, artistic, informative, photographic, industrial and graphic design, architectural, holographic, etc... as well as other types of events, such as conferences, round tables, catalogue editions. It is located in the center of the city, in the Gardens of Méndez Núñez

Wikipedia: Quiosco Alfonso (GL), Website

145 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 14: Méndez Núñez Garden

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The Gardens of Méndez Núñez are gardens in the city of A Coruña located between the Cantons and the port. They are dedicated to mariner Casto Méndez Núñez, hero of the First Pacific War.

Wikipedia: Xardíns de Méndez Núñez (GL), Website

129 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 15: Castelao

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Castelao

Alfonso Daniel Manuel Rodríguez Castelao, commonly known as Castelao, was a Galician politician, writer, painter and doctor. He is one of the fathers of Galician nationalism, promoting Galician identity and culture, and was one of the main names behind the cultural movement Xeración Nós. He was also one of the founders and president of the Galicianist Party and had a great influence on the renovating group of Galician art known as Os renovadores. Castelao is considered to be the most important figure in Galician culture of the 20th century.

Wikipedia: Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao (EN)

342 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 16: Obelisk

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The Obelisk of the Cantons is a monument of the city of A Coruña, located in the street of the Cantón Grande. It was built in 1895 in memory of Aureliano Linares Rivas, deputy, senator and minister of Santiago de Compostela during the regency of Maria Cristina.

Wikipedia: Obelisco dos Cantóns (GL)

351 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 17: Igrexa Castrense de San Andrés

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The church of Santo André is a neo-Romanesque style religious temple located in the street of the same name in A Coruña.

Wikipedia: Igrexa de Santo André da Coruña (GL)

626 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 18: Picasso House Museum

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Picasso House Museum

The Picasso House Museum is a museum house in A Coruña opened on December 18, 2002. 33 works are reproduced in the museum, of which 4 are by the father and the others were made by the young Picasso during his stay in the Herculean city, the works are integrated into the decoration of the house in the different rooms except in the bedrooms. Among the works exhibited are oils on canvas, oils on wood, pencil and pen drawings, inks, coals and watercolors. In the house that houses the museum resided the painter Pablo Picasso between 1891 and 1895. It is a typical dwelling in the area of the 19th-century widening, and is preserved the same as it was when the Ruiz Picasso family lived with original furniture, objects and appliances and the time. The house is located on the second floor of 14 Paio Gomez Street, in the middle of the city.

Wikipedia: Casa Museo Picasso (GL), Website

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