Mar: Discover the Camino de Santiago, the Ría and culture

Mar first makes its presence known through a precisely identified work of art: La Sirena de Ojos Turquesa is a stone sculpture by Salvador García Ceballos. It was inaugurated in 2002 at the roundabout where the CA-232 meets the CA-322 in Mar. The precise road reference gives the introduction a fixed location, while the name opens up the cultural trail.

Culture and history

The architectural history of Mar includes the Casona de Díaz Cacho. It is located in Mar and features a form of construction typical of the 17th and 18th centuries. The reference to the period makes the architectural detail tangible for your own travel planning without assigning the building to a different era.

The Regato de las Anguilas archaeological site in Mar provides another cultural point of reference. On the terraces of the Ría cut through by the motorway, it yielded several split tools, flakes and cores. The list of finds gives this aspect a concrete, factual profile.

The chapel of San Miguel in Mar is assigned to the “Ambiental” protection category. When choosing your personal areas of focus, these levels do not need to be conflated. Those interested in architectural forms will view the Casona differently from the finds; the chapel’s protection status, in turn, represents a separate layer of information. This kind of sorting leaves room for different interests without reducing Mar to just one cultural theme.

Pilgrimage connection

Another aspect is provided by the coastal route of the Camino de Santiago. It is designated as a Bien de Interés Cultural and leads to the edge of the settlement of Mar.

From the edge of the settlement of Mar, this coastal route continues northwest towards the industrial area of Cudón (Miengo). Combining the settlement edge as a reference point with the named northwestern continuation makes the route easy to understand spatially; you can consider both details separately when planning your own journey.

The Regato de las Anguilas pilgrims’ hostel in Mar (Polanco) is located at Bº Mar A-10. The specific address provides its own clearly defined local point of reference within the pilgrimage context.

Landscape and transport

The settlement of Mar looks out over the Ría del Saja-Besaya.

Mar also has the “apeadero de Mar” passenger railway stop.

For your personal travel planning, you can view the outlook and the transport stop as two separate decision-making levels: one belongs to considering the landscape, while the other concerns which information you use when planning your journey.

When comparing holiday apartments in Mar, you can pay particular attention on the accommodation pages to travel dates, room category and cancellation conditions. These fields describe your personal booking framework; the importance you assign to culture, routes, landscape and dates remains separate from this.

Events

Traditional patron-saint celebrations of San Miguel Arcángel, in honour of Saint Michael the Archangel, were announced in Mar for 28 and 29 September 2025; the announced celebrations included a procession carrying the image of Saint Michael the Archangel through several streets.

For the overarching travel overview: Polanco.