A high view of La Coruņa/A Coruņa, Spain
To orient you as to the location of this hilltop, Dave Sevougian took this photo from his plane before it landed: the hilltop we are visiting, and the Hercules Tower, are clearly visible on the left and right, respectively:
Here is how the bus took us from the Hercules Tower. We basically just followed the road that borders the central bay of the city and then went uphill:
Once up the hill, we could look at where we had just come from, the Hercules Tower is now directly north of us:
So let's continue to the right a little and see the rest of the city and its main beach (you can just see the start of the beach on the right:
Now if you look at the center of the next photo you can see that futuristic harbor marker in front of the university's conference center on the other side of the peninsula (above the people on the right--the main city beach is below those people):
The hilltop was surrounded by burned out areas from wildfires. It has been a very dry year this year in all of Spain.
This hilltop was fortified, of course, against invaders from the sea (that is a big gun, and there were several of them):
There were not many flowers on the hilltop, but I found them anyway:
We stayed on this hill until we had a sunset:
That cloud touching the ocean to the west turned out to be a rainstorm, it visited us the next day. It was very welcome. This year there is a 60-year drought in Spain.
Our next stop was a gourmet meal. It was a great evening!
An evening ride to see lighthouses, a beach and a castle at Santa Cruz, Spain.
A very old lighthouse on a Roman foundation
A visit to mile zero on the Camino: Cabo Finisterre, end of known world
An A Coruņa harbor cruise
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