La Coruña

In this page are available several photos of a wonderful city: La Coruña, also known as A Coruña, Corunna and La Corogne.

Arriving to Corunna

• Map of Galicia, the region in the North-West of Spain in which Corunna is located. To be more precise, Corunna is located in the North-West of Galicia. This is a satellite's image of Corunna and environments.
• Map of the communications network of Galicia, to know how to arrive to Corunna.
• If you arrive by plane, you could see views so pretty like this one, this one and this one. You will land at Corunna Airport, with its new passenger's terminal (other photo).
• You can also arrive by boat. Here, here and here you can see photos of the transatlantic quay. Two general views of the port are here and here. Other photos here and here.
• Once you have arrived, you need a map of Corunna and perhaps a map of the bus network.
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Streets and squares

• La Marina Avenue, with its traditional buidings. More photos here, here, here and here.
• Méndez Nuñez Gardens, with its Palco de la Música.
• Riazor and Orzán's Beachs by day and by night.
• Obelisco.
• Azcárraga Square, with the Wishing Fountain.
• Palloza Square.
• Humour Square (other photo).
• Eusebio da Guarda High School, where Picasso studied several years when the School of Arts was also located in this building, a lot of years ago.

Representative Buildings

• The Hercules Tower, a roman lighthouse 1,800 years old. It is the symbol of the city (other photo.).
• The Town Hall, (other photo, and other one).
• The Science's House, a scientific museum with a planetarium. More photos here and here.
• Domus or Human's House, the first museum in the world devoted to all aspects of the humans. An international commitee formed by relevant scientists, with several Nobel's awards among them, guide its activities. The building was designed by the japanese architect A. Isozaki. Other photo here.
• San Antón Castle, currently hosting an archeologic museum (other photo).
• Real Academia Galega, an institution dedied to the study of Galician language.
• The Congress's Palace and Auditorium (other and other photo).
• Kiosco Alfonso, a building for temporary art exhibitions.
• Museum of the Army.
• Cuatro Caminos Mall.

University of Corunna

• The Hall of the University of Corunna (University logo)
• Faculty of Economy.
• Faculty of Education's Sciencies.
• Faculty of Computer Science.
• Faculty of Laws (a photo inside the building).
• Faculty of Philology (a photo inside the building).
• Faculty of Sciences.
• Faculty of Sociology.
• INEF.
• School of Architecture.
• School of Business Adminitration.
• School of Civil Engeneering.
• School of Civil Marine.
• School of Nursing.
• School of Physical Therapy.
• School of Social Assitants.
• School of Technical Architecture.

Churchs

• Santa María del Campo.
• Santiago.
• Orden Tercera.
• Capuchinas.
• Santo Domingo (another photo).
• San Jorge.
• San Nicolás.

Football

• The Deportivo de La Coruña is one of the more important fooball (soccer) teams in Spain (see its logo). Matches are played in the Riazor Stadium. If you want, you can joint to RI@ZOR, La Peña Deportivista de Internet (RI@ZOR, The Internet Supporters of Deportivo).

Galicia

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Acknowledgements

The Faculty of Computer Science was photographied and converted to digital format by Víctor M. Gulías.

The rest of the photos of university buildings were obtained from University of Corunna web server.

The photos of the port are from Port Authority of Corunna web server.

Photos of Corunna Airport was obtained from AENA web server.

The Domus and several other photos are from Santiago Lamelo.