Municipality of Carballo

Plan 1: Surfing
The waves of Razo and Baldaio are ideal for practicing this sport, especially between the months of September and April, when the tides coming from the Atlantic, mainly from the Azores Islands, unload strongly on our coasts. Along the coast of Carballo there are several surf schools and camps, which combine the learning of this sport with other complementary activities, such as skateboarding and yoga.

Plan 2: Tearing down walls with paint
Demolishing walls with paint is a public art initiative promoted by the Carballo City Council that, since 2013, seeks to improve and beautify the streets of Carballo, turning them into an open-air museum. Since 2015, the project has included the Rexenera Fest, a festival where internationally renowned artists are invited. So far, more than a hundred walls have “collapsed”.
More information at www.derrubandomuros.gal and www.rexenerafest.gal.

Plan 3: Razo-Baldaio Natural Area
Natura Network and declared by the EU as a Special Protection Area for Birds, Baldaio is one of the most valuable natural spaces in Galicia, with a wetland of great ecological importance. Here the salty waters of the Atlantic mix with the fresh waters of the local rivers in its lagoon and marshland, which together with the beach of Razo, form a system of dunes of more than three kilometres, one of the most extensive sandy areas in Galicia.

Plan 4: Thermalism
The Carballo spa is the only mineral-medicinal spa on the entire Costa da Morte. Its centuries-old waters, already recognized in the nineteenth century as some of the best in Europe, today have the Q distinction for quality and are a miraculous source not only of health, but also of beauty, well-being and relaxation.
More information at www.balneariodecarballo.com.

Plan 5: Route of the waterfalls (PR-G 142)
The Rus and Entrecruces waterfalls jump over the unevenness in the terrain caused by the Meridiana Depression, a fault that crosses Galicia from north to south. Old trails, still known as royal roads, lead through beautiful stretches with native vegetation to the Outón River, which plunges into the void from more than forty meters high at the Entrecruces waterfall. On this route you can visit some of the oldest heritage assets of the municipality, such as the church of Santa María de Rus, near its waterfall.

Plan 6: Fairs and markets – Gastronomy
The quality and authentic flavour of the products of the sea and the land of Carballo is the secret of its gastronomy. Carballo bread is one of the most famous in Galicia. Tasty fresh fish and seafood from the Costa da Morte arrive at the municipal market from nearby ports. In the many bakeries of the village you can find egg bread and sponge cake, the typical sweets of the area. On the days of the fair and market, products such as the fine potato from Carballo, the broad beans that are then marketed as Asturian, and other vegetables from the orchards of Bergantiños are sold.

Plan 7: Aldemunde Dolmen – Astrotourism
The Piedra de la Moura, as the Aldemunde dolmen is known, is one of the largest in Galicia and dates back to the heyday of the megalithic culture (3,500-2,500 BC). Legend has it that its stones were carried by a woman while she was spinning and breastfeeding a child. The dolmen is located in the interior of Carballo, in an area of great scenic and ecological interest, near the native forest of Ribeira da Pena, ideal for night-time astronomical observation.

Plan 8: Bergantiños Museum
The building that houses the Museum of Bergantiños was an old prison of the judicial district of Carballo, built in 1855. After its rehabilitation at the end of the twentieth century, it opened as an ethnographic museum with an exhibition on the culture, history and customs of the lands of Bergantiños. Currently, it offers a small sample of the evolution of different areas of everyday technology through old devices. In one of the old cells is the municipal tourist information office.

Plan 9: Viewpoints
From Santa Irene de Castrillón you can see how the Atlantic Ocean merges with the Baldaio lagoon, being a privileged point to contemplate almost the entire Razo-Baldaio natural area. At the foot of the Baldaio marsh is the Sambade viewpoint, and a little further inland, the Vilela viewpoint, a window open to the coast of Carballo. To contemplate magnificent views of the Atlantic and the length of the Razo beach, the Santa Mariña viewpoint, elevated on the cliffs, is recommended.

Plan 10: Anllóns River
The Anllóns river rises in the Montemaior mountain range and crosses our town and the entire region of Bergantiños until it flows between Ponteceso and Cabana, in the Anllóns estuary. In Carballo, the banks of the river have been recovered for walking and leisure, on a route of more than eight kilometres between the Quinto mill and the Cheda mill, known as the route of the bread mills. One of the most attractive points of the route is the Añón Forest, where the typical riverside vegetation (alder trees, willows, ash trees) mixes with our most emblematic trees, the oaks.