A Guarda - Oia

Simpler breakfast from 8am.

Leave hotel to your right, then left, then right again. Start Camino crossing to other side of road at Bodega Bar, as per arrows on the floor. Turn on the 3rd on your left, as per arrows and straight to the church. However I missed easy arrows after church due to chatting (recorded in wikiloc). Well indicated tracks, with a couple of small slopes/hilly roads, along the coast. Has the unusual crayfish structure. after this take the right after the building in ruins. On and off road with no facilities for the majority of the track. Two major places to socialize, beer garden on the left (Terraza Casa Puertas), which is just before the restaurant A Camboa with nice esplanade.

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Castro de Santa Trega, which is a Galician fort and archaeological site located on the hillsides of Mount Santa Trega.The site is strategically located overlooking the mouth of the river Miño. Belonging to the Castro culture, it is the most emblematic and visited Galician fort. This is a ‘Castro-Roman’ settlement. It was inhabited between 100 BC and 100 AD, in a period when the process of Romanisation of the northwest of the Iberian peninsula had already begun. Despite this, the construction system reflects techniques that respect the Castro tradition and has seen very little Roman influence. This style is dominated by the use of circular structures.(SEE IN MY WIKILOC RECORDED TRACK OF SEPTEMBER, location is a bit more to the left than what we walked and is recorded).

Cetárea "A Redonda" - The Cetáreas were nurseries in which live fish and crustacean were kept, in direct communication with the sea water, later the nurseries were located on land, pumping the water from the sea with water pumps. XIX century were built in A Guarda several Cetáreas, which could only be accessed at low tide. In order to build them, they had to wait for the lowest tides and use special cements so that when the tide went up it did not ruin everything built. Its purpose was the conservation of live crustaceans, especially lobsters, lubrigantes, oxen, crab, crabs and even shrimp. From 1880 to 1900 the Galician sailors already fished lobster and other crustaceans with traps, copied from the French who were the first to use this fishing gear in Europe.

Monastery of Oia - historians date the beginning of the monument from the first well-known document in 1137 a.c, when the king Alfonso VII donated the Hermitage of San Cosme to the monks. We know that the arrival of the Cister Reform to Galicia was in the XII th century (Oia adhered in year 1185). From here on we leave the doubts, all the documents reveal that the abbey was an economical center of the Miño Valley and surroundings, including Northern Portugal and during some time the great port of Baiona.The restoration project consists in reconverting this architectonic jewel in a 4 Stars Monument-Hotel . Including, 72 rooms, a convention and congress center, spa with marine water and a residential.

Hotel A Raiña run by deaf son and mother. Modest place. This time meal was very good as they had stuffed up rooms arrangement.