Recently, I have spent some days in the place I grew up before I moved to Catalonia: a village called Santa Cruz (Lians, which covers an area of 6.63 square kilometers - 2.55 square miles - and, as of 2014, it had a population of 9,900 inhabitants).
This village is located in the municipality of Oleiros, which in turn is located in the province of A Coruña (Galicia).
The castle is placed on a small island in the Ría of A Coruña, which is reached by crossing a wooden footbridge. This bridge was built in the early 2000s in order to permit easy acess. Prior to that, one depended on the sea: while the low tide allows walking on the sand, the high tide only narrowed the options to either boat transport or swimming.
Running around the island is a promenade offering a magnificent and unsurpassable view of A Coruña city, as well as of the village of Santa Cruz and its small port, which you can see on the picture above. Below, you can observe the castle and the low tide:
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