We did not have time to walk to Finisterre, as it is 4 days out of Santiago.
We decided to rent a car and drive out there. We drove to the coast and then up, seeing some incredibly spectacular beaches. The mountains come right down to the sea. They are all bare and covered with rocks.
The sea is deep turquoise!!! It is stunning. The ocean and rocks and all were just breathtaking, with little stucco villages perched on the hillsides overlooking the sea.
We went out to Finisterre for the sunset. There were lots of people out there. There were people burning their clothes. That is a very bad idea when your clothes are made of synthetic materials derived from petroleum or some kind of plastic.
It really smelled bad! What a bad idea.
Finisterre is this huge cliff sticking out into the pounding Atlantic. The blue sky and the turquoise water was just gorgeous. The scenery there is breathtaking, you can´t really explain it.
Finisterre has a long history. The ancient Greek and Phoenician geographers knew that it was the westernmost point in Europe. The ancient Druids thought that the sun died there and they had a temple to the sun like Stonehenge.
The Romans also believed that it was the end of the world and that there were monsters and perhaps Atlantis on the horizon from Finisterre. I was struggling to read the information folders, which were written in Gallego, the local dialog of Galicia. The folders claimed that Saint James destroyed the Druid´s sun temple but I don´t believe it.
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