Just northwest of Taboada, in the Lugo province, a quiet quartzite outcrop rises from Monte San Cristovo. Locals call it Pena de Núñez, and if you love climbing off the beaten path, it is worth knowing about. A Small Sector…
Every culture seems to have some version of the same idea: a small, mischievous spirit that lives in the house, causes minor chaos, and is more of a nuisance than a threat. In Galicia, that figure is the trasno. If…
Monte Faro is one of those places in Galicia that doesn’t announce itself. There’s no big sign on the main road, no tour buses in the car park. You more or less have to already know it’s there, which is…
We get this one a lot. People assume that because we live in Galicia and near the Ribeira Sacra, we must live in Ourense. It’s a fair guess, since Ourense province holds a large part of the Ribeira Sacra and…
This year we watched two sizeable wildfires burn uncomfortably close to our village. Close enough that we packed a bag “just in case,” close enough to smell the smoke for days, and close enough that we started paying much closer…
August changes Galicia. It’s the one month where the region’s population seems to double almost overnight, and by now, living here, we’ve learned to read the signs: the supermarket queues get longer, the N-VI fills up with cars carrying license…
One of the first practical questions anyone emigrating to Galicia runs into is a simple one: what do you do with everything you own? Do you hire a removal company to bring it all across Europe? Do you rent a…
Galicia has a reputation as Spain’s green, rainy corner — the region where umbrellas outnumber sun hats. So it might come as a surprise that in August 2026, dozens of Galician municipalities are under official drought alert, with restrictions on…
The first time we heard that some Galician villages have more cows than residents, it sounded like the kind of exaggeration people make about the countryside to sound charming. Then we looked at the numbers, and it turned out to…
The first few nights we heard it, we assumed someone was out hunting. A sharp bang, somewhere out over the fields, repeating every so often through the dark. It felt strange for that time of night, and we found ourselves…
We didn’t have much of a plan, just an idea: follow the road out of Chantada around sunset and see where it took us. That turned out to be a good call. The route runs along the edge of the…
Galicia is a land of contrasts: rugged coastlines, centuries-old cathedrals, lively port cities, and hidden villages that time seems to have forgotten. If you only have a few days to explore, you don’t have to choose between all these highlights.…
Santiago de Compostela is about an hour and a half from our village in the Ribeira Sacra, and the cathedral at its heart is the reason the city exists at all. It is the final destination of the Camino de…
When most people think of Galicia, they imagine the Camino de Santiago, dramatic Atlantic cliffs, green mountains and delicious seafood. But hidden among forests, farmland and remote hilltops lies another treasure—one that is thousands of years older than Roman roads…