Ortigueira: The Festival of the Celtic World
Galicia, Spain
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Ortigueira: The Festival of the Celtic World
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The Festival Internacional do Mundo Celta was started in 1978 by the Santa Marta de Ortigueira pipe band, and it has been free since 1985: a festival of the folk music of the Celtic nations, usually on the second weekend of July, declared of international tourist interest in 2005. People camp on Morouzos beach and in the pine wood behind it. The rest of the year Ortigueira is a quiet town at the head of its ría, the largest of Galicia's five Ramsar wetlands, with the 19th-century Teatro de la Beneficencia in a wing of the building that also holds the town hall and the Iron Age castro of Punta dos Prados, which had a ritual steam bath, on the far shore.
Required Activities
1
of 5
Go to the Festival do Mundo Celta and hear the pipe bands from the Celtic nations
2
of 5
Find out how a town pipe band started a free festival in 1978
3
of 5
Walk Morouzos beach and the pine wood where the festival camps
4
of 5
Walk along the ría de Ortigueira, Galicia's largest Ramsar wetland
5
of 5
Find the castro of Punta dos Prados and its ritual steam bath
Go to the Festival do Mundo Celta and hear the pipe bands from the Celtic nations
Find out how a town pipe band started a free festival in 1978
Walk Morouzos beach and the pine wood where the festival camps
Walk along the ría de Ortigueira, Galicia's largest Ramsar wetland
Find the castro of Punta dos Prados and its ritual steam bath
Before you go
The Festival do Mundo Celta is usually on the second weekend of July.
Festival weekend is very crowded — arrive early for camping space.
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Spain country bonus
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Potential total
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