FINISTERRE

FINISTERRE

The cape Finisterre is one of the best known capes all over the world because its dangerous location and the rough sea.It is sometimes said to be the westernmost point of Spain,but its not totally true since other capes are further west.
It's name is related to the Romans who said that it was the end of the earth (Finis terrae) and if you go ahead through the sea you'll fall into a monster's mouth.
Nowadays we know that it isn't true because the Earth is round,but it keeps its old name.

Here you can see what I was talking about.

It's very important too thanks to the pilgrimage to the shrine of the apostle saint James the Great in Santiago de Compostela.Some people think that the end of the way of Saint James is located in Finisterre because here appeared its dead body. There's typical that when a pilgrim ends the walk he should burn a garment in the top of the cape,at the lighthouse.


Thanks to that Finisterre has a special atmosphere because there are mixed the typical sea-village lifestyle with the pilgrims from all over the world.It's a really funny scene!

I've spent with my family or friends fantastic days at the most beautiful beaches all over the world.One of them is like the Caribbean,with crystalline water and white sand,without any building.It's called 'Langosteira' because lots of years ago there you could catch lobsters.



There're another beaches, like 'Rostro' or 'Mar the Fora',which are really dangerous and wild,and this zone of the coast is known for all of us as 'a Costa da Morte' (the Coast of the Death),because it's a really difficult place to sail and lots of ships have run aground it.That's really breath-taking to see a part of a ship in each stone,and when I was a child I felt like a real explorer discovering new wreckage of a new crash.
For example,the big oil tanker ship 'Prestige' was the last important crash there.


When I was 6 I came to Bilbao,and since then every year I go back there to enjoy a perfect summer with sunbathing,party and some cultural events, as a folk festival during August or a tasting of 'longeiron',a special kind of razor-shell.