One of the most attractive images of the coast of A Coruña, repeated a thousand times by photographers and painters, is the town of Caión, which with its white farmhouses grouped in the small peninsula, is one of the most picturesque brushstrokes of the coastline of the Costa da Morte, which the Greco-Roman geographer Strabo called, two thousand years ago, Great Port of the Ártabros, which reaches from Cape Prior (Ferrol) to the Sisargas Islands and Cape San Adrián (Malpica).
All this can be seen from the Watchtower of Caion, a place of incredible views. The inhabitants of the town in the sixteenth century were located there to control the passage of whales, as Caion was formerly an important whaling port.
