Allariz, Cambados, Combarro, Mondoñedo and Ribadavia form part of the list of the 100 most beautiful villages in Spain drawn up by the publication.

Viajes National Geographic magazine has welcomed 2023 with a list of the most beautiful villages in Spain that are worth visiting this year. Their history, their architecture, their harmony with the natural environment that surrounds them are some of the attributes that make these places “miniature wonders” worthy of being claimed.

The list of the publication is made up of one hundred villages from all over the peninsula and, of course, Galicia is also represented. Allariz, Cambados, Combarro, Mondoñedo and Ribadavia appear on the list as a small sample of all that this land has to offer to those looking for alternatives to the big cities in which to enjoy a getaway.

The ruins of Torre de San Sadurniño or the Church of Santa María de Dozo are two of the attractions that Viajes National Geographic mentions when referring to Cambados and pointing out that, like the area’s Albariño wines, “more than a show, they evoke land and landscape”. It also highlights its architecture, its pazos and spaces such as the Fefiñáns Square.

Also in the Rías Baixas is Combarro (municipality of Poio), defined by the publication as “a good seaside town” whose historical site “is a sum of sensations”. It also takes pleasure in its small shops and taverns and in the sum of traditional constructions that turn Combarro into “the maximum apotheosis of the Galician hórreo”.

“Among the cobbled streets of the centre of Allariz, stone jewels follow one after the other”, he points out about this town “located in the Biosphere Reserve of the same name and crossed by the Jacobean Silver Way” which is intimately linked to a river and, as happens with other towns in Ourense marked by the orography, “they were not satisfied with domesticating the environment, but have often wanted to rival it in beauty”.

Something similar happens with Mondoñedo, “a town that manages to steal some of the limelight from its surroundings thanks to its narrow streets and monuments”. Those responsible for Viajes National Geographic highlight the Cathedral of this town crossed by the Northern Way and its picturesque mills district as an exponent of the most popular side of Mondoñedo as well as the importance of water in the local history.

Ribadavia completes the publication’s Galician line-up with its mix of history, architecture and winemaking tradition. “It was during the Middle Ages when the town acquired the topography that is now enjoyed and in which a collection of fortifications, Romanesque hermitages, a rich Jewish quarter and a historic centre, declared a Historic-Artistic Monument in 1947, stand out”.

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