Accommodation

Ideal accommodation options.

A Mariña Lucense boasts a wide range of accommodation options, enabling you to find the ones that suit you best during your visit. Establishments that provide great value for money, ranging from hotels, B&Bs and rural cottages, for example, to publicly and privately run hostels, tourist apartments and campsites.

Along the coast, the options are many and varied, and inland you will also come across accommodation of all types, including rural tourism establishments spread across the region and other types of accommodation, centred mainly around the borough capitals. The Northern Way of St. James has a network of public and private hostels for pilgrims as well as ample accommodation options.

Fiestas and events

The cultural and recreational activities on offer in A Mariña Lucense are both intense and varied. While some festive dates are burnt into the regional calendar, at local level each borough has its own programme of events and weekly or fortnightly markets.

Fiestas, fairs, events and festivities throughout the year, featuring some related to gastronomy, more than a dozen fiestas that have been declared of tourist interest in Galicia, celebrations such as Holy Week in Viveiro, of International Tourist Interest or the Resurrection Fest

Among the Fiestas of Tourist Interest in Galicia, and in relation with gastronomy, the following are renowned: Longfin tuna Fair in Burela and the festivals of the faba bean in Lourenzá, the line-caught hake in Celeiro, the trout in A Pontenova and the sea urchin in Cervo. In relation with the world of horses, recognised fiestas include “Rapa das Bestas” (cutting of the manes) in Candaoso (Viveiro) or the well-known fairs of San Lucas in Mondoñedo, dating back more than 800 years. The different boroughs all have their own patron saints’ festivities, which are multitudinous and colourful, one of the most outstanding that has been declared of tourist interest being San Lorenzo, in Foz. “Romerías” (pilgrimages to the shrines of saints), such as Santa Cruz in Ribadeo or Naseiro in Viveiro, and fiestas such as the “Maruxaina” in San Cibrao, the popular Queimada (Galician alcoholic punch) in Cervo, the International Emigrants Fiesta in Barreiros, the “Romaxe das Cruces” fiesta in Ponte de Arante (Ribadeo) or the Medieval Market in Mondoñedo complete this wide and varied range of well-known propositions, among the infinity of events that exist. On a religious note, the most relevant are the celebrations of Holy Week in Mondoñedo and in Viveiro, the latter declared of International Tourist Interest.

For details of the full schedule of events, please see A Mariña Lucense Turismo web site and participate with us in these wonderful celebrations.

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