Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #3 in A Coruña, Spain

The park of Santa Margarida is a place of learning, nature, knowledge and culture in the city of A Coruña. It is located in the center of the hill teied with trees and is visible from a good part of the city.

Wikipedia: Parque de Santa Margarida (GL), Website

A Casa das Ciencias is a two Scientific Museums in A Coruña. It is located in Santa Margarida Park. It contains, among other cousas, modules to experience surprising phenomena, an incubator where you can see the birth of pitiños de galiña, exhibitions and a planetarium that offers live and recorded programs. I conceived it as a place to have fun with science and Umberto Eco qualified as one of the most formidable museums in the world.

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The church of San Francisco is a religious temple located on Paseo das Pontes de A Coruña, a crusade area diagonally by an old aqueduct. It was originally in the Old City and was part of the primitive Franciscan convent located outside the old walls, on a hill elevated over the rocks, in front of the sea. This location outside the walls was precisely the reason for its destruction, since during the English siege of A Coruña, in the 16th century, it was set fire to prevent the enemy from being fortified in the convent.

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

The Palace of the Opera of A Coruña is a building located in the Glorieta de América da Cidade Herculina, located next to the Santa Margarida Park. It is the headquarters of the Galician Symphony Orchestra.

Wikipedia: Palacio da Ópera da Coruña (GL), Website

The church of Santa Lucia is a religious temple of Coruña, located in the area of Lugo do Ensanche.

Wikipedia: Igrexa de Santa Lucía da Coruña (GL), Website

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.

Wikipedia: Casa Museo Picasso (GL), Website

The monument to the Countess of Pardo Bazán is a sculptural ensemble by the artist Lorenzo Coullaut Valera commissioned by the council of A Coruña in memory of the writer Emilia Pardo Bazán. Atópase nos Xardíns de Méndez Núñez.

Wikipedia: Monumento a Emilia Pardo Bazán (GL)

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.

Wikipedia: Xardíns de Méndez Núñez (GL), Website

O Quiosco Alfonso, Kiosco Alfonso or Quiosco Afonso is an exhibition hall in the city of A Coruña. It holds all kinds of exhibitions, artistic, informative, photographic, industrial and graphic, architectural, holographic, etc. as well as other types of events, such as conferences, round tables, catalogue editions. It is located in the heart of the city, in the heart of the city.

Wikipedia: Quiosco Alfonso (GL), Website

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.

Wikipedia: Monumento a Curros Enríquez (GL)

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.

Wikipedia: Teatro Colón da Coruña (GL), Website

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

Wikipedia: Obelisco dos Cantóns (GL)

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

Wikipedia: Igrexa de Santo André da Coruña (GL)

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.

Wikipedia: Teatro Rosalía de Castro (GL), Website

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.

Wikipedia: Galería (arquitectura) (GL)

The Emilia Pardo Bazán House Museum is a house museum located in the family home of the Countess in Coruña. Hoxe shares dependencies with the Royal Galician Academy, which depends, and was bequeathed by the Herdeiras.

Wikipedia: Casa-Museo Emilia Pardo Bazán (GL)

The Royal College of Santa Maria do Campo is a Catholic temple located in Coruña. It was also known as the nicknames of the Sea and the Portal. It was declared Ben of Cultural Interest or June 3, 1931.

Wikipedia: Colexiata de Santa María do Campo (GL)

The Museum of Sacred Art of the Colexiata of Santa Maria do Campo is a museum of A Coruña. Exhibit a collection of prata fishes, of a religious character, belonging to Colexiata de Santa Maria do Campo, from different periods and artistic styles, among which a monstrance of the late seventeenth century stands out.

Wikipedia: Museo de Arte Sacra da Colexiata de Santa María do Campo (GL)

A Casa Museo de María Pita é una casa museo da Coruña que lembra a vida de esta heroine que loitou contra unha inglesa no século XVI led by Francis Drake. Not soar that occupies rose in the sixteenth century a dwelling owned by the first husband of Maria Pita, Xoán Alonso de Rois. Hoxe is located in Rúa dos Ferreiros.

Wikipedia: Casa Museo de María Pita (GL), Website

Lieutenant-General Sir John Moore, also known as Moore of Corunna, was a senior British Army officer. He is best known for his military training reforms and for his death at the Battle of Corunna, in which he repulsed a French army under Marshal Soult during the Peninsular War.

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The Regional Military Museum of A Coruña is dedicated to military history and pre-Roman objects – mainly Galician – and has a large collection of weapons, uniforms, flags, models, maps and material of interest.

Wikipedia: Museo Militar Rexional da Coruña (GL), Website

The Chapel of the Venerable Orde Tercèra of San Francisco is an eighteenth-century relixious temple located near the Vella City of A Coruña.

Wikipedia: Capela da Venerable Orde Terceira (GL)