Galicia

Galicia occupies the north-western corner of the Iberian peninsula, extending south to the frontier with Portugal. The mountain chains which dominate so much of Spain are lacking here. The extensive areas of granite and other crystalline rocks have militated against the development of any particular line of folding, so that the river systems have played a more important part in determining the topography of the region than in the Cantabrian Mountains.

The regions biggest attraction is the medieval city of Santiago de Compostella.