Galicia

About this gallery

This gallery travels across Galicia, in northwestern Spain, from Santiago de Compostela to the coast at Ribadeo. In Santiago, the baroque Obradoiro façade of the cathedral, with its bell towers and spires, and a star-crowned statue rising above the rooftops of the old town, make up the gallery's heritage side, along with a close-up of plateresque architecture, stone balustrades lined with old-fashioned lamps, and a candid moment in a sunlit garden, among pink flowers and a fountain.

To the east, the coast offers Cathedrals Beach, near Ribadeo: arches and gorges cut into the rock, cormorants gathered on the cliffs, and, in black and white, boats gliding across a glassy sea. A little further west along the same coast, fireworks light up the night sky over the town of Foz.

Inland, around Lugo, blue-tinted mist engulfs hillsides planted with eucalyptus and wind turbines stand along the hilltops; terraced houses with red tile roofs and bougainvillea show another side of the region. At night, the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy light up the Galician sky, where a solar eclipse is also captured in several stages. These royalty-free photos suit a travel journal, a feature on Spain or northwestern Iberia, astronomy or coastal geology, and can be downloaded for free on Pexels.