Discovering a region as big as Costa da Morte, with more than 1500 km2 and 300 km of coastline, full of natural spaces and a rich historical, ethnographic and cultural heritage, requires a lot of driving and walking if you want to see all the places of interest that the area has to offer.
The aim of this guide is to provide you with a set of routes that give you the chance to see and experience the most important places in the region for the first time, to give you an idea of the landscape, history and people who live in the westernmost point of the Iberian Peninsula end Europe. Then, if you like what you see, you can get to know the area better and see the things that most interest you.
We know that every traveller has their preferences, and it’s very difficult to satisfy everyone with a guide designed for a broad cross section of visitors. But the idea here is to offer some attractive locations that you can choose from according to your tastes and interests.
That’s why the routes in this guide are suggestions and are as open-ended as possible so you can plan your own trip the way you want. We’ve organised circular routes as much as possible so you can join one no matter where you are, although there are one or two where that’s not possible and you’ll have to leave and return on the same route.
We’ve divided Costa da Morte into five big routes for travelling by car. They start at coastal towns because they’re the ones with the largest number of visitors, giving them the highest priority because they tend to be the places of most interest to tourists, although other locations further inland that are notable for their heritage are also on the routes. Each route is designed for one day’s travelling. There are also some short-distance and long-distance walking routes.
