My visit to A Coruña was not quite as planned. I had traveled on a Sunday from Muxia to A Coruña and turned up at the medical laboratory on the Monday morning for my PCR test only to find it had closed down so I spent the day finding another testing laboratory...only to discover that Tuesday was a bank holiday and everything was shut so I had lost two days of sight seeing so I could only see the outside of buildings, not the insides. 
A former palace now the local TV station offices.
The bandstand opposite which made me feel at home because there is one in my local town centre and another in the park.
The former dancehall next to the palace, now a hotel.
One of the marinas with the harbour office obscured by masts and the skyline of the waterfront.
An art deco style building also displaying a typical feature of Galician architecture of glass enclosed balconies.
The Captain Generals palace but in 1763.
Igreja de Santiago, an 11th century church and the oldest in the city.
An unusual statue of General Jose San Martin to be found in spain as he together with Simon Bolivar was instrumental in liberating much of South America from Spanish colonial control and every town and city has a square or road named after him.
A post box but this one is blue with a yellow symbol instead of the standard yellow with a blue symbol. Next door is a kitchen oil recycling collection point where households can pour their cold waste oil into a plastic container and drop it into the red box to be recycled.
The main plaza and...
...the royal palace.
Nothing exceptional about this building other than you can't escape the scallop shell and arrow as it is an option on ElCamino de Norte and Primitivo routes.
Convento de Santa Domingo.
Those green frogs get everywhere...the Iberian Frog, in Spanish and Latin La Rana Iberia with a distribution area of northern Portugal and Galicia.
An unusual statue of General Jose San Martin to be found in spain as he together with Simon Bolivar was instrumental in liberating much of South America from Spanish colonial control and every town and city has a square or road named after him.
A splendid art deco style building built 1912.
The opera house...
...and beside it a granite cliff with a water feature called the Cascades where water is pumped to the top to flow down the cliff face.
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