Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #2 in A Coruña, Spain
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Experience A Coruña in Spain in a whole new way with our free self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.
Individual Sights in A CoruñaSight 1: Picasso House Museum
A Picasso House Museum is a house museum of the city of A Coruña inaugurated on December 18, 2002. In the museum, 33 works are reproduced, 4 of them are from the country and the rest of them were made by Picasso during his stay in the city of Herculina, the works are integrated into the decoration of the house in different rooms in the bedrooms. Among the works exhibited there are oils on lenzo, oils on wood, pencil and pen debuxos, inks, charcoals and watercolors. A house that houses the museum resided or painter Pablo Picasso between 1891 and 1895. It is a typical dwelling in the area of the nineteenth century A Coruña expansion, and it is preserved the same as it was when the Ruiz Picasso family lived with furniture, objects and original aparellos and of the time. The house is located on the second floor of number 14 of Paio Gómez street, in the heart of the city.
Sight 2: Igrexa de Santa Lucía
The church of Santa Lucia is a religious temple of Coruña, located in the area of Lugo do Ensanche.
Sight 3: Méndez Núñez Garden
Os Xardíns de Méndez Núñez are a Xardíns da Cidade da Coruña located between the Cantons and Porto. They are dedicated to Mariño Casto Méndez Núñez, hero of the First War of the Pacific.
Sight 4: Monumento a Curros Enríquez
The Monument to Curros Enríquez is a work made by the Galician sculptor Francisco Asorey and located in Xardíns de Méndez Núñez da Coruña. It was inaugurated in 1934 as a tribute to Manuel Curros Enríquez, who died in 1908.
Sight 5: Colon Theatre
The Teatro Colón is a stage performance center located in the Xardíns de Méndez Núñez, center of the city of Coruña. The Teatro Colón is owned by the Provincial Council of A Coruña and commissioned by Novacaixagalicia since its reopening in 2006.
Sight 6: Rosalía de Castro Theatre
The Rosalía de Castro Theatre is a cultural institution of the city of A Coruña, owned by the municipality, founded by the Coruña Municipal Entertainment Institute (IMCE) of the City Council of A Coruña and directed by Javier Sabadie Iglesias. It is a center of scenic representation located in the center of the Herculine city, in the middle of Rúa Real and moi near Praza de María Pita. On 20 May 1994, the Biblioteca da Deputación Provincial da Coruña was also attached to the Biblioteca da Deputación Provincial da Coruña.
Sight 7: Galerías da Mariña
A gallery is a constructive element of architectural composition, built in the northern part of the peninsula, especially in Galician architecture of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Na arquitectura bourgeois residencial galega acadou o seu maior grao de desenvolvemento ao se convert nunha peza fundamental dos edificios de vivendas.
Sight 8: 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.
Sight 9: 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.
Sight 10: Igrexa de San Nicolás
The church of San Nicolao is a religious temple of baroque style located in Coruña. It is one of the historic parishes of the city of A Coruña, with Santa María, Santiago and San Xurxo.
Sight 11: Igrexa de San Xurxo
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.
Sight 12: Porlier
Juan Díaz Porlier, also known as the "Marquesito", was a Spanish military commander active during the Peninsular War.
Sight 13: Casares Quiroga House Museum
Santiago Casares y Quiroga was Prime Minister of Spain from 13 May to 19 July 1936. Casares Quiroga resigned just 48 hours after the beginning of the military insurrection that led to the Spanish Civil War.
Sight 14: Isabel Zendal Gómez
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.
Sight 15: The Fine Arts Museum
The Museum of Fine Arts of A Coruña, owned by the state and transferred to the Ministry of Culture, Education and University of the Xunta de Galicia, is a modern building that is located in the former Capuchin convent.
Sight 16: Igrexa Castrense de San Andrés
The church of Santo André is a religious temple of neo-Romanesque style located in the street of the same name in A Coruña.
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