Riveira

The Auditorium hall was inaugurated in 1999, and became the new Culture House, holding Sport, Culture and Youth council departments. The old public market was used and rebuilt to become a brand new innovated hall where the past and the modern were united. This decision solved the lack of a large hall for events; the new auditorium has 280 comfortable seats. The upper floor, formerly taken up by market stalls, was fit out to be exhibition hall and museum. There is a ramp to access; it was there before the remodeling but it seems now an avant-garde element as a part of the inner space arrangement.

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Parque Dunar

Casa da Costa (Coast House) is the visitor reception centre in the Dune Park. Any kind of information to guide newcomers will be provided by the team of biologists who work in the complex to serve nature and people. Facilities hold, besides a spacious hall, a room for audiovisual projections and the searching and managing work outbuildings.

Along with Casa da Costa, in June 1994 CIELGA (Galician Coast Ecosystem Interpretation Centre) was inaugurated. This interpreting museum hosts very innovating exhibitions, exceedingly atractive for visitors and always about issues related to the Park ecosystem or other coast ecosystems. There is also space for anthropologic and cultural references, part of the park too, since it comprises areas touched by mankind hand.

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Centro de Interpretación Arqueológica -CIA

Riveira

CIA (Archeological Interpretation Centre) is placed at the entrance of San Roque Park. It was built in 2002 by pupils of the School-Workshop Illa de Sagres, who put their course specialities in practise: building, carpentry and gardening. Useful and modest designed, the facilities will host displays related to our past and ancestors. This museum brightens up the cultural face of Riveira and it means a step forward on the project for turning San Roque hillside into a pioneer and leading Cultural Park.

For further informartion visit:
Visit San Roque (Only in Galician and Spanish)

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Conservatory

Riveira

Built in the 80´s and aesthetically praiseworthy, it was used as Culture House until 1999, when the Auditorium was inaugurated. Currently, the Conservatory is the seat for the music conservatory, where lessons and performances are openly provided. There is an exhibition room inside, taken up some times by certain traveling collections; and also an event small venue with a capacity of 110 people.

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Corrubedo

The Corrubedo Lighthouse building was ended in 1853, drawn by the engineer Celedonio Uribe, responsible for numerous works and urban alterations carried out in Riveira during the second half of 19th century. At a privileged placement, it is always witness of the ferocity of an irate sea and thousands of diverse sunsets. In 1856 it began to work as a guide for ships. Firstly it was oil what was used as fuel for illumination; later crude oil, and electric current for about 35 years. Arrival of electricity turned the lighthouse uninhabited, the same as many other along the coastline, now centralized at certain points such as Vilagarcía.

There is a funny story about such a time when the beams of light were red instead of white. Because of a general feeling of discomfort sprung up after the ocean liner Santa Isabel wreckage by Salvora, some speculations pointed to the confusion between the two lighthouse beams as the cause of the accident. So, that red light gave Corrubedo lighthouse a nickname: the comunist lighthouse, which still remained after setting the white light again.
 

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