ROOMS:
Located in the urban area, two-star Carballo Spa has a total of 60 rooms:
54 double rooms (2 of them equipped for disabled people) and 6 single rooms.
All the rooms are connected with the thermal facilities through corridors and lifts without the need of going outside. Moreover, all of them have bathroom, hairdryer, heating, plasma screen TV and direct dial telephone.
FACILITIES AND SERVICIES:
Apart from the spa services, the hotel offers you:
- Reception service (24 hours).
- Central safety box.
- Bathrobe rental
- Daily papers
- Thermal cosmetics and souvenir shop.
- Typical restaurant.
- Spacious halls which can be used as meeting, reading or game areas.
GASTRONOMY:
The Balneario de Carballo Restaurant offers typical dishes from the Galician area. The dishes are cooked with simplicity using fresh and top quality food. There is table service, with optional daily meal or menu where you can choose among different starters, fish dishes, meat dishes, typical dishes and homemade desserts.
WHAT TO VISIT?
From our facilities, as they are really close to the coast, we suggest you go through different Town Halls, stopping at:
MALPICA:
Its capital is Malpica town, located in a peninsula with the fishing port on one side and Area Maior beach on the other. Its coast goes from Monte Nariga to Punta de Razo, which is the western end of Baldaio beach. We can find in this coast Islas Sisargas, which are a natural shelter for marine birds, seagulls and cormorants and there is a small lighthouse. Nowadays it works automatically but during many years it worked thanks to lighthouse keepers.
Apart from the capital of the Town Hall, there are also some important places such as Buño town and Mens village with a Romanesque church and medieval Towers of Mens.
PUENTECESO
It has two urban areas: Ponteceso (capital of the Town Hall and Eduardo Pondal’s home) and Corme Porto (maritime village) where we can find O Roncudo cape, famous for its goose barnacles. Seafood, own bank holiday, nationally and internationally known. It contributes to the Town Hall’s economic and gastronomic riches. You can lie down on its beaches (Balares, Niñons, etc.) and go sightseeing (Pedra da Serpe, Torres de Mens, etc.).
LAXE
Town Hall located in north-western Galicia and constitutes together with other towns the famous “Costa da Morte”. Its main tourist attractions are its beaches because there is one for everybody: urban beaches with all services (with blue flag and quality Q distinctive), beaches where you can practice sport, isolated small beaches, sandy beaches or isolated small coves.
CAMARIÑAS
Town belonging to the region Tierra de Soneira, bordering the Town Hall of Vimianzo, but it has other important urban areas: Camelle and Ponte do Porto. Among its main economic activities we can find fishing, a little preserved fish industry, shell fishing and bobbin lace handicraft, as well as one of the first wind farms in Spain located in Cabo Vilán.
MUXÍA
It is the end part of the Camino Jacobeo, together with Fisterra. The last km of the route are an opportunity to enjoy the peculiar landscape: Moraime church – Monte Corpiño, San Roque chapel –Chorente village –Espiñeirido beach, with a panoramic view of Camariñas ria and Muxía village –da Barca Sanctuary in Muxía.
FISTERRA
Its name comes from latin finis terrae, end of land; and it is also an end part of the Camino de Santiago. Fisterra’s geographical peculiarity captivated a lot of people who wanted to see the end of the world, where the land ends and the sea begins or at least this is what Roman legions thought when seeing the sun setting on the water. Its urban area consists of an ancient area grown on an amphitheatre over the port. Its houses and narrow streets are really original. In the centre we can find Arasolis Square, in the outskirts Santa Maria das Areas Church and in the historical area there is San Carlos Castle.
Visitors cannot miss visiting the lighthouse and Rostro and Langosteira beaches.
Activities
ACTIVE TOURISM
From Carballo spa you can get information of the different active tourism proposals near the area such as:
- Fishing preserves
- Surfing in Razo – Baldayo – Soesto beaches.
- Horseback riding routes.
- Facilities for golf practice at 15 km.
- Lighthouse route
- Dolmens and fortifications route
- Aquapark open in Summer
FAIRS AND FESTIVALS OF TOURIST INTEREST
Carballo Fair: It is held on the Town Hall Square every Thursday and you can find food, plants and craftwork from the area. Furthermore, the second, fourth and fifth Sunday of each month you can find other stalls and all the shops open in the morning.
Patron Saint’s Day: San Juan 24th and 25th June.
Feria del Libro (Book fair) in August.
International Festival “Outono de Teatro”, from October to November.
Other festivals of interest:
Carballo: bread festival in June.
Baldayo: cockle festival on 21st August.
Coristanco: potato festival on the last Sunday in August.
Corme: famous Roncudo goose barnacle exaltation the first two weeks in July.
Muxia: conger eel festival on Holy Week.
Finisterre: longueirón (razor fish) festival the first Sunday in August.
SOCIAL THERMAL PROGRAMME
Carballo Spa takes part in IMSERSO Social Thermal Programme and regional Social Thermal Programmes.
The IMSERSO programme takes place between February and December. The programme includes an 11 nights’ stay, full board and double room to be shared. For further information please enter the: IMSERSO website.
If you want to have information about programmes organised by XUNTA DE GALICIA you should contact the Town Hall Social Services.
