Experience the North of the North, a magical place where they merge into the Atlantic and the Bay of biscay, where to find the corners secret of the north of Galicia and feel the calm of a space where it seems to stop the time. A territory clean, without masificar, with a coastline abrupt and numerous protected natural spaces.
Tourism Slow the North of Galicia is an opportunity to enjoy a territory clean, without masificar, with a coastline abrupt and numerous protected natural spaces… and a pace of life that is worth it to recover, a rhythm marked solely by your biological clock, and where you can experience a different way of travel, to wander, enjoying every sensation to learn or relearn how to enjoy the life in another way. A travel sustainable, a trip with consciousness, where they interact with the local culture, taste the products of the area and carry out activities in the nature. Few places can offer shows natural as gorgeous as the ones that you’ll enjoy in this area.
Come to wander to the edge of one of the cliffs, the highest in Europe and to meet part of the Reserves of the Biosphere Río Eo, Oscos and Land Bourón and Lands of the Minho river and forests region of ribeira best preserved of Europe, the Fragas do Eume. Crosses the Estuary of The Boatman in silence, leaving that this calm is interrupted by deer, herons or hawks… strolling down the Via Green of the And the and embraces a eucalyptus giant in Souto da Retort. Enjoy the best views of the northernmost peninsula, Estaca de Bares (the tip located more to the north of the Iberian Peninsula, declared a Natural Site of National Interest since 1933), where you will be able to catch sight of migratory birds, and discovers in Cape Ortegal the oldest rocks on the planet: the ecloxitas.
You lead by your History, to travel to a time where if you built the cathedral is the oldest of Spain and they rose up their villages and medieval castles; and allows you bewitch by their stories and legends that you while being introduced to a destination magical.
The North the North is full of natural heritage, historical and monumental, but also of ethnographic heritage, stories of life, you mergullarán in the local culture.
In this area you can enjoy the views of the union of the two seas infinite, a wide area with long and wild beaches where you wander, small coves to disconnect, high cliffs to observe the vastness of the ocean, recondite havens natural in which to get lost and corner secret to disconnect from the world.
The legend tells that “the San Andrés romanesque church of will of the dead who was not alive”, so we know that sooner or later you shall come to know the North of the North... we hope you!!
+ gastronomy
+ routes to get lost
+ natural heritage
+ activities
+ corner secret
+ local culture
Commitment to environmental Sustainability
- Environmental management:
- Use of renewable energies.
- Recycling
- Management of paper and ink.
- Reduction of plastic one use only.
- Consumption and energy efficiency.
- The use of light bulbs of low consumption.
- Home appliances, low consumption.
- Control of the lighting.
- Automatic shut-off lighting.
- The system of collecting rain water.
- Control of watering.
- Saving devices water (reducing flow, odourless low consumption).
- The reuse of greywater.
- Laundry service.
- Sustainable practices
- Allowances natural.
- Use of products innocuous (paints, varnishes, etc.).
- Use of cleaning products biodegradable.
- Measures to prevent the introduction of invasive exotic species in the green areas.
- Measures of reduction of waste food.
Support to the local community
Personal local
Companies that provide local
food Products primary local
Promotion of the art, architecture or cultural heritage local
Offer services leisure with elements of environmental education
Products or experiences based on the own elements of local identity (cultural, ethnographic elements, etc.)
Supports, participates in or promotes actions for the care and development of the local population.
Tourism aware of and responsible for
Information about points of interest, tourist, local experiences, restaurants, crafts, etc.
Information and management options transport more ecological (round, train, bus, etc.)
Information on recycling and sustainability to personal
Information about behaviors responsible with the environment (recycling, and sustainability) to the people hospedadas
And, given that it is a network of accommodation, the belonging to the network involve also commit themselves to participate and get involved in the project.
Jessica Brown
Yoni Albert
Christine Eve
David Hardson
Fred Andrew
Sarah Rose
