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Most Spectacular Scenery And Wildlife Of Costa Ad Mortem
One of the most spectacular and wild scenery of the Costa ad Mortem in Galicia, the sharp line from the Cape of San Adrian to Finisterre, is the journey through the natural site of Cape Vilna, between the towns of camels and Canaries.
This is a landscape of contrasts sailors, the sea broke furiously against the cliffs and the coast is dotted with dangerous cliffs, but there are sandy beaches and green countryside right on the coast. There is an interesting way to travel around this coastal section: cycling through a trail that runs from the town of Laxer to the same Cape Vilna. Some 12 km.incredible landscapes.
From Laxer and travel parallel to the coast, heading southwest. Lock beach is on your right until you reach Camille. From there, the beach of around, constantly buffeted by the wind from the Bay of Biscay and the roads leading to the highest points from which to admire the spectacular scenery.
Here is advisable to take the detour to the Cape Tots. There is the English Cemetery, where they were buried shipwrecked ship “The Serpent”, sunk because of a terrible storm in 1890, perhaps the most tragic episode in the history of shipwrecks and disasters black sea at Costa ad Mortem. Unfortunately, not alone, as evidenced by numerous stone crosses erected in different parts of the coast.
After out Tots appears in sight the lighthouse at Cabot Vilna, a formidable rocky bastion against the Atlantic, often surrounded by mists that give an air of mystery and dingy.
On the walls that fall vertically on the sea waves for millennia been excavated small cavities, called Furnas, of leaving all kinds of sounds when water comes violently inside: snorting, wheezing deaf siren songs … This natural phenomenon has given rise to countless legends and superstitions.
To finish the route, from Rafter Vilna the road continues to the port of dressing rooms, the perfect place to rest of the way and sample the delights of fish and shellfish in the area, passing through the top of the Vireo do Monte, where you see the next beacon of this dangerous and beautiful coast.