Green Spain
At this time of year, the wetter weather brings out the glory of Spain’s green delights from the ‘Rías Baixas’ of Galicia to the Bay of Biscay and all along the north coast of the Iberian Peninsula through four autonomous regions: Galicia, Asturias, Cantabria and the Basque Country.
The route takes in peoples with different identifying features but, at the same time, are marked by a landscape of mountains which has led to a traditional isolation from the rest of the country, allowing them to preserve, almost intact, ancestral traditions, customs and even languages. In Green Spain, two worlds which are seemingly antagonistic live together: coast and inland, sea and mountain, fishing and agriculture. Two worlds which have given rise to two different ways of understanding life and which, nevertheless, could not live without each other.