The Costa da Vela is a mirror of the Cíes Islands, in the sense that it has a fierce face of cliffs on the Atlantic side, while protecting beautiful sandy areas inside the rias. The only beach that emerges between the rocks is Melide, with its cold waters and magnificent views of the Cíes Islands.
And this spot, Cape Home, is the part of the peninsula closest to the islands, with its red and white lighthouses standing out on the horizon. Stretching from here to Punta Couso is the Costa da Vela – whose name means “velar”, watch over.
Precisely on its highest point, on the Facho de Donón, there is a stone sentry box on top of a fortified settlement, once housing an important Galician-Roman sanctuary. A pilgrim site at the beginning of our era, where the devout would leave over a hundred altars to pray to the god Berobreo for their health, on the edge of the earth over the Tenebrous Sea.
