Late afternoon light rakes across the granite towers of Santiago de Compostela Cathedral, catching every carved saint and finial on the Obradoiro Facade in warm gold. Below, the terracotta rooftops of the old town tumble away in a patchwork of clay tile, and a Spanish flag stirs over the Pazo de Raxoi in the foreground — the seat of the city's government, standing where pilgrims have gathered for over a thousand years. This close crop isolates the towers against a blue sky brushed with cloud, turning centuries of stonework into something almost like an architectural portrait: intimate, textured, and lit like a film set at magic hour. Quick Facts Photographer: Sapiens Verbum (Pablo Avanzini) Subject: Obradoiro Facade towers, Santiago de Compostela Cathedral Location: Praza do Obradoiro, Santiago de Compostela, A Coruña, Galicia, Spain Medium: Photograph – Colour Series: Galicia Landscapes Towers of the Obradoiro Facade at golden hour, Santiago de Compostela...

Neda sits on the quiet side of the Ria de Ferrol, and the hill above it, Monte Ancos, is where the whole estuary finally makes sense. Climb to the viewpoint and the water stops being a shape on a map and becomes a long silver corridor, curling past shipyards and green hillsides before it opens into the Atlantic. Catch it at the right hour, as the sun drops behind the ridge, and the ria turns the color of the sky above it — soft pink fading into deep blue over a city that has spent five centuries building ships on the water below. Quick facts Photographer: Sapiens Verbum (Pablo Avanzini) Subject: Ferrol's ria and cityscape at sunset, seen from Monte Ancos Location: Monte Ancos, Neda, A Coruna, Galicia, Spain Medium: Photograph - Colour Series: Galicia Landscapes Ferrol's ria at sunset, seen from Monte Ancos, Galicia, Spain. Photograph by Sapiens Verbum (Pablo Avanzini). Monte Ancos isn't a famous summit — it barely qualifies as a hill by ...

Where the Ares Estuary widens toward the open Atlantic, the Miranda Islands sit low against the water, all but disappearing into shadow as the sky above ignites. Cloud banks stack in tiers over the estuary, catching the last colour of the day and turning a modest stretch of Galician coastline into something closer to spectacle. Quick facts Photographer: Sapiens Verbum (Pablo Avanzini) Subject: Miranda Islands beneath a dramatic evening sky Location: Miranda Islands, Ares Estuary, A Coruña, Galicia, Spain Medium: Photograph - Colour Series: Galicia Landscapes Dramatic sky over the Miranda Islands at the mouth of the Ares Estuary, Galicia, Spain. Photograph by Sapiens Verbum (Pablo Avanzini). The photograph turns on a simple contrast: a sky doing all the work of colour and movement, set against water and land that stay almost perfectly still. Most of the frame belongs to cloud — layered, lit from below, shifting through amber and rose — while the islands and the estuary beneat...