Corme Porto owes its existence to the favourable conditions in the bay on which the port is located, allowing the population to make use of and gain their livelihood from maritime resources. Prior to the town, there was the parish of Santo Hadri\u00e1n further inland, in Corme Aldea, to which the coastal town belonged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On the map by the Portuguese Pedro Teixeira (1634), both of these population centres are shown. Corme Porto is depicted beside a long beach with painted boats, indicating the importance that it had at the time, and Corme Aldea is represented by the parish church of Santo Hadri\u00e1n (dedicated to Sain Adrian).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The intellectual Jos\u00e9 Cornide, when referring to this port, in addition to emphasising its excellent conditions for docking boats, also mentions the presence of Catalans in the town, who were engaged in sardine fishing and salting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the 1920s, Corme had a prominent position among the ports of Galicia owing to its coastal shipping fleet of more than forty boats that sailed to ports around the Peninsula, many carrying wood from the pinewoods of Berganti\u00f1o.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At this time Corme was a lively town both economically and socially. It had several salting factories, steam line-fishing boats and three conger eel curing facilities. The houses were typical of a seafaring town. The traditional urban landscape changed completely from the 1970s onwards, when new buildings appeared. Today, the town continues to live on resources from the sea, such as fishing, shellfishing and tourism, although its fleet continues to shrink.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Both the town of Corme and Cape Roncudo<\/a> are known for their goose barnacles, a much appreciated shellfish, which grows in abundance on the rocks of this coastal outcrop pounded by heavy seas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The fame of the barnacles of Roncudo dates back to ancient times. The writer Carr\u00e9 Aldao had already emphasised the quality of the marine crustaceans of this area: \u201cCape Roncudo, where large, excellent goose barnacles grow, among the most tasty on the entire coast.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Since 1992, in the first two weeks in July, the Festa do Percebe, the Barnacle Festival<\/a>, is held. It is a very popular event at which, in addition to tasting this shellfish, music and attractions are on offer all day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n