The Old Town was awarded Historically and Artistically Interesting Area by the Galician Heritage Board in 1993, the year of the Arrival 5th centenary. The General Town Planning and the Special Planning for the Protection of the Historic and Artistic Town ensure the maintenance of the area, i.e. limiting building heights and material quality.

Although the Old Town includes part of O Burgo (Santa Marta peninsula) and Sabarís, its core is right in the town centre and it forms a nearly perfect circle with three ways-in: Santa Liberata Sq., Padre Fernando Sq. and the Holy Trinity Cross. Narrow streets of cobbled stone, short stone or granite buildings and arcades... a church here, a fountain there and a nobility manor over there. And the air always smelling like sea.

Interesting routes: Old Town