Discover the most important and complete museum in Galicia on the culture of the Galician people. The former convent of Santo Domingo de Bonaval houses an extensive collection that will take you deep into Galician tradition: the sea, trades, the countryside, clothing, music, sumptuary trades, art, society, traditions and festivals, popular architecture..... Tour Galicia in one place with a local guide who will explain everything you need to know about your trip to Galicia.
The tour will start right at the entrance of the museum to see the beautiful convent abandoned after the disentailment and recovered in the 70's to become the Museo do Pobo Galego and Pantheon of Illustrious Galicians, since in its church are buried Galician writers as well known as Rosalía de Castro, Castelao or Ramón Cabanilllas.
We will start in the Hall of the Sea, to learn about the typical Galician boats, how fishing worked and works in Galicia, navigation, what the coastal villages are like... You will see the well-known Galician "dornas" or shellfish gathering instruments.
From the sea we will continue to the countryside rooms where we will see the traditional types of farming in Galicia and the tools that were used for their work, how livestock farming works and what the Galician rural landscape is like.
We will continue our visit through the room of the trades to get to know its people: the milkmen, the itinerant trades, the shoemakers... did you know that a very typical Galician shoe is the clog?
We continue to a particularly outstanding and famous place in the museum, the triple helicoidal baroque staircase, a unique example of the local baroque.
After this we will reach the room of baskets and weaving, which was one of the most important economic activities in Galicia, and who is not familiar with the lace and the "palilleiras" of Camariñas? We will also see a large number of typical traditional costumes from the 19th century.
Finally, we will enter the world of folklore in the rooms of the traditional music of bagpipes and tambourines and we will get to know the typical festivals and traditions celebrated in Galicia according to each season of the year.
We will finish by visiting the church of the old convent, a magnificent example of Compostela's Gothic style and Pantheon of Illustrious Galicians.