Description:

This route belongs to the so-called Industrial Tourism, which helps us understand the reason of a concrete tradition or product intimately tied to a place.

This touristic trend allows us to get to know the reality of a territory, its history and economic activity, to understand its urban development, to interpret its landscape and definitely, to know how the inhabitants of the destination being visited have lived.

We will visit a farm, an ancient bakery where bread is made traditionally, a cheese factory, several craftmen, painters and smiths, a soda drink factory where we will be shown the secret of its bubles, we will taste the different flavours of Santa Comba through some of its wines in any of the multiple catering businesses of the area. We will have the perfect end for such a route with a photo shoot in one of the most stunning waterfalls in Galicia.

Will you join us?

* Our routes can be easily adapted to 1, 2 or 3 days, including accommodation or not.

Guided tour led by professional bilingual local guides qualified by the regional government of Xunta de Galicia.

Creative routes, where moving your hands is the most important thing!

Would you like to become an artist for a day and spend your holiday in a different way?

Creative Tourism is the one which offers travellers the possibility of developing their creative potential by actively participatingh in courses or experiencies typical from the place where they stay.

Give free rein to your creativity and cook a galician pie of corn flour and varietaged scallop, make a willow basket, make your own oil of galician camellia, learn how to make cheese or how to cook good octopus following the galician recipe, take photos of the heritage which has been abandoned or fallen in disuse with the help of a professional photographer. And all this and much more while travelling.

Description:

This route belongs to the so-called Community Tourism, which arises as an economic alternative for rural, farming, native, mixed-race or African descent communities of a country, in order to get some income which may be complementary to their daily economic activities, and to help them defend and increase the value of their cultural and natural local resources.

We will visit an ecological farm where jam is made. We will be able to find out more about what is done at a greenhouse, a compost bin, a worm compost bin or a henhouse, as well as discovering the free-range chicken! We will visit a factory of turnip tops, discover the job done by a vernacle collector and the net knitters. We will get into the workshop house of two galician artists, go through the flavours of La Guardia with some good wine in a Winery, as well as participating in a photo shoot from one of the most outstanding viewpoints of the Baixo Miño.

Will you join us?

* Our routes can be easily adapted to 1, 2 or 3 days, including accommodation or not.

Guided tour led by professional bilingual local guides qualified by the regional government of Xunta de Galicia.

Description:

This route belongs to the so-called Community Tourism, which arises as an economic alternative for rural, farming, native, mixed-race or African descent communities of a country, in order to get some income which may be complementary to their daily economic activities, and to help them defend and increase the value of their cultural and natural local resources.

We will visit an ancient bakery where Herminia used to make Hebrew sweets. We will also visit a workshop where essense and ecological soap is made. A member of the Touza family will led us in a commented guided tour where we will walk around Ribadavia following the steps of the heroic sisters from the town.

We will get to know the life of those women who, for so many years from their samll local business selling doghnuts, secretly help hundreds of jews to scape, to finish tasting the incredible wines of the local collectors.

Will you join us?

* Our routes can be easily adapted to 1, 2 or 3 days, including accommodation or not.

Guided tour led by professional bilingual local guides qualified by the regional government of Xunta de Galicia.

Description:

This route belongs to the so-called Creative Tourism, which offers travellers the possibility of developing their creative potential by actively participatingh in courses or experiencies typical from the place where they stay.

We will visit a Celtic village and the Museum of tinned-food Industry. We will discover the job of craft beer makers who make beer in Galicia and we will found out the different flavours of Vigo through some good wines in a winery. We will participate in a basketry workshop led by a craftwoman and meet a real oyster collector. This route offers us the opportunity to discover artisanal, creative and artistic initiatives, as well as taking part in a photo shoot in one of the most stunning viewpoints of the city.

Would you join us?

* Our routes can be easily adapted to 1, 2 or 3 days, including accommodation or not.

Guided tour led by professional bilingual local guides qualified by the regional government of Xunta de Galicia.

School Support Programme of didactic experiences.

The objective of this type of iniciative is to help the pupils experience artisanal production, getting closer to local producers, to the labour market and to the industry around them. The organization of the whole productive process is emphasised, as well as promotion activities which are analized and transmited in the classroom through several didactic units.

In order to help us doing so, we get the help of big companies, craftmakers, our Tinned-food Sector Route, our Food Route, fishermen associations, net knitters, vernacles collectors, sailors, oysters collectors, seafood collectors, farmers, beekeepers, etc.

As a part of the programme, we encourage the “Eco Agro-Maritime route” aimed at schools. Its objetive is to make them aware of the importance of environment and taking care of it, showing them ecological ways of growing, and where the food which we eat at our homes comes from.

Our visitors must experience and live the country and nature, so that they can fully develop themselves. That´s why we adapt the school curriculum to reality and the interpretative routes. This way they will see how the theory from their books comes to life.

Let´s give a face to education!

There are several areas available for this  Seafaring Tourism route:

1.Participating in the tinned-food route in the Barbanza area, , we will discover a wood shipyard in Ribeira where we will be led by the manager; we will have the opportunity to get into a tinned-food factory where we will be shown how the food is treated with care and love; after a lunch in a local resturant with more than 30 years of experience, where we will meet Mrs María, who will prepare a handmade “empanada de millo de zamburiñas” (Galician Pie of corn flour and varietaged scallop) following the traditional recipe. Finally, we will visit a seafood hatchery.

2.The tinned-food route around Camariñas, we will visit a tinned-food factory led by a production technician, where we will receive a small gift once the visit is finished. A lace-making artisanal workshop will be visited, so that our creativity will be boosted. We will have the oportunity to discover the job of a woman lighthouse keeper, have lunch in a local restaurant and finish the route with a guided visit around the fish market and meeting the net maker women.

3.The tinned-food route in the Ría de Arousa area will let you find out more about the port, the work made by the net knitters known as “redeiras”. We will also see an auction of fish and seafood in the fish market and visit a traditional tinned-food factory. We will also have the chance of putting on our boots to join the seafood collectors in the beach.

4.During the tinned-food route in Porto do Son, we will visit the Tide Museum (Museo da Marea) and get into a tinned-food factory to taste some of the products made there. We will also participate in a guided tour in the Castros de Troña to have a group photo taken with the view of the Ría de Muros and Noia behind us.

5. Would you like to be a seafood collector  for a day?

This activity takes place in Carril, in a breeding park, where the seafood collectors will show us their job and the different ways of growing this appreciated mollusk, its extraction, the different fishing techniques, the management of sizes, the diferent spices and the more technical parts of their activity in the sea inlets.

We will discover the fish market, a tinned-food factory as well as sailing around the sea inlet of Arousa to Cortegada Island.

Would you dare put on your boots and collect seafood?

Seafaring tourism is an ideal activity for either families or groups, or even for a couple!

Seafaring Tourism, consists of working for a day with the authentic shellfish workers who show us first hand, the straightforward shellfishing practice, the different cultivation jobs of the prized mollusc, as well as, learning how the specimens are harvested, the different fishing gear, it´s handling, size handling, different species, and the most technical tasks employed during the cultivation phase of the activity itself in the estuary. Obtaining a greater understanding of the port, the redeiras, and attending the auction!

Available from Monday do Friday.

Languages available: Galician/Spanish/English/Dutsch

Our routes are easily adapted to the travellers´ needs, as well as to the number of participants.

* Each of our routes may include acoommodation and transportation becoming a package.

Information and booking: info@ponlecaraalturismo.com  0034 652 90 79 52

Seafaring Tourism, consists of working for a day with the authentic shellfish workers who show us first hand, the straightforward shellfishing practice, the different cultivation jobs of the prized mollusc, as well as, learning how the specimens are harvested, the different fishing gear, it´s handling, size handling, different species, and the most technical tasks employed during the cultivation phase of the activity itself in the estuary. Obtaining a greater understanding of the port, the redeiras, and attending the auction!

We organize “alive” guided tours based on the experience and contact with the territory for company groups who want to boost the social abilities of their workers through encouragement trips, or experiences for companies with a link to the local community.

The following key aspects and competences are worked:

Good communication skills- Leadership – Active listening – Good environment – Cultural diversity – Proactive Spirit – Comradership – Teamwork – Work Culture

This maritine and creative tourism activity, which boosts teambuilding, can be addressed to schools, groups of friends or even families.

It is organized taking into account the needs of the groups, with a duration of just one or different days.