HOTELES EN LA CORUÑA | HOTEL PLAZA

La Coruna, the capital, has earned the nickname of City of Glass by their geometric features galleries glaze. Open to the sea and three extensive sandy and white beaches, Riazor, Orzán and Berbiriana, has an active cultural life which crystallizes in the many exhibition halls and museums, such as the Provincial Archaeological, which occupies the San Anton Historic Castle, a former defensive bastion located at the end of a long promenade that the neighbors have become one of their main leisure centres.

La Coruna is a city for walking, with many green areas as attractive as the Jardines de Mendez Nunez, parallel to its bustling port, or Park of Santa Margarita, where is located the Science Museum. In a town with so much street life could not miss zones caps, which are located on the old town, mainly around the Estrella street. The rations are the most requested octopus to feira, Padron peppers, cockles and raxo.

TO VISIT:

1. HOUSE OF SCIENCE: Museum of Science and Technology

Website of the museum: http://www.casaciencias.org/casa/

First interactive publicly owned center created in Spain, funded by the municipality of La Coruna Standing Exhibition principles of science, technology and the natural world.

On the first floor where the modules are personally experiencing physical phenomena. On the second floor are temporary exhibitions. On the third floor is now home to about scientific samples to be renewed each year. The dome is occupied by the planetarium where, on a vault of 10 metres in diameter, depicting the sky and stars visible from the earth.

2. TOWER OF HERCULES: The rest of Hercules

It is one of the headlights Romans in activity oldest in the world. The Tower of Hercules is located between inlet of the Orzán and the Gulf Artabro. It is a beacon of ancient Roman Brigantium. Data from the second century AD, from the time of Trajan, and was refurbished in the year 1788 on the orders of King Charles IV. It was designed by the Portuguese architect Cay Sergio Lupo.

It has a square measuring 68 metres and the light that emerges is currency in the sea from a distance of 32 miles. The tower is divided into three sections successively less widths until the flashlight. We need to raise a total of 242 steps to be in the highest lighthouse, but it is worth the effort because you can see a magnificent panoramic of the city and the coast of La Coruna. According to mythology, Hercules short head Gerión and lifted the monument after burying their remains below.

3. CATHEDRAL OF SANTIAGO: The end of the pilgrimage.

Page officer of the Cathedral of Santiago: http://www.catedraldesantiago.es/
Website Xacobeo: http://www.xacobeo.es/

The Cathedral of Santiago is the end of the journey of pilgrims will hike its monumentality worthy of its worthiness. It is a key work of the romantic in which converge, however, many architectural styles.

The construction of the cathedral began in the year 1075, during the reign of Alfonso VI and promoted by the obisco Diego Pelaez. The works were carried out with the direction of teacher Esteban on the remains of ancient temples in eregidos devotion to the saint. It was built with three ships and a Latin cross, in an area of about 8,300 square meters. Its multiple extensions have joined in the building various architectural styles (Romanico, Gothic, Baroque, Plateresque and neoclassical).

The Portico de la Gloria is a main entrance. It was built by Master Matthew in 1188 and houses two hundred figures referring to Revelation. In it, the figure of the Apostle Santiago seems to welcome the pilgrims, argued in a column from the Parteluz. The facade Obradoiro the Cathedral is the work of Fernando de Casa and Novoa, and is considered one of the highest expressions of the Spanish Baroque. The Altar Mayor is also Baroque, and under it is the crypt of Santiago Apostol.