O Porriño en el Camino de Santiago

The Portuguese Way enters the municipality of O Porrino, with a population of about 18,000 inhabitants, the parish of San Salvador de Budiño, one of eight that make up the City Council. It is nestled in the valley of the Louriña and enjoys an ideal location for development: less than 20 kilometers from Vigo, international port and airport, and connected to the AP-9 Motorway between A Coruña and the border of Portugal and a-52 which links the Rias Baixas with the Castilian plateau. Therefore, the Industrial As Gándaras is not located in O Porrino by chance, although for the pilgrim has made to date a rock on the way and a bad round off stage. If anything characterizes the Concello are quarries pink granite are dozens and material is exported to various European countries, United States and even Japan. The architect Antonio Palacios Porriño (1874-1945), whose statue tribute can see next to City Hall, used granite for several of its buildings. O Porrino highlight the conceited City Hall; Botica Nova, completed in 1912 and designed as pharmacy and home of his brother Joseph; the source of Christ, 1904; and the Temple of San Luis, a pavilion access to the Madrid metro was located on Gran Via and was transferred to O Porriño in 1971.

O Porrino repays more mundane tastes with its famous bread, thick crust and crumb abundant. Its flavor and texture holds several days and some bakeries still continue amassing in the old wood-fired ovens. In spring party is celebrated around the honey and late summer party calluses.