Erasmus guide -📍A Coruña, Galicia | Spain 🇪🇸

A travel guide around Galicia from the view of an Erasmus student. You will find here restaurants🥘, favourite student clubs🪩 and bars🍷, beaches🏖️ and surf spots🏄🏼‍♀️, trips🌍, monuments 📸and important places around the city. You will learn everything about Erasmus life in A Coruña.

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Summary:

1) Things to know before arrival ✈️

2) What to see in the city

3) What to see outside of the city

4) Trips

5) Beaches & surf spots 🌊

6) Cafés for studying ☕️

7) Restaurants 🍽️

8) Tapas bars 🍸

9) Pubs 🍻

10) Clubs 🪩

This is exactly how I spent first month of my Erasmus😍

You can also see it on my IG profile:

👉🏻@_slivkovaal_

Galicia

The Galician weather is really unpredictable as I´ve learned. There should be more rainy and windy weather because it is in the north and by the Atlantic ocean. I was there during the winter semester (September - January). From September until the first half of October the weather was warm and sunny but then it rained 3 weeks straight🥲. I thought that this is the end of sunny weather but from the second half of November it was again mostly sunny but colder. Since February I´ve seen my friend´s stories on ig, who stayed there, and they were playing beach volleyball just in shorts and sweatshirts so I guess the weather´s been better and better.

Maybe, some of you could be discourage to go on Erasmus to Galicia because of the weather but trust me, it´s not that bad. The landscape is really green due to the rain and the nature is sooo beautiful. Moreover, the air is always fresh thanks to the ocean and rain😊.

A Coruña 🇪🇸

I chose this city because I wanted to be by the ocean, in a place where you can surf and somewhere sunny and warm. Plus Spain was suitable for me due to the Spanish language which I wanted to start learning.

The city is located in the north-west of Galicia and has around 250 000 inhabitants. It is not big but I liked that everything is in a walking distance. There is no underground, only buses. It has a historical lighthouse which are the locals really proud of and also the football stadium. It has a small airport on the outskirts of the city and a harbour.

Things to know before arrival:

👉🏻A Coruna has an airport ✈️ but the flights are mostly cheaper to Santiago airport and then you can book a train or bus.

👉🏻Get your ESN card. ESN is an organization which coordinates Erasmus students, organizes trips, events and parties, and offers you a lot of discounts (Ryanair, Flixbus...).

👉🏻for trains 🚅 use Renfe app and book the tickets in advance, for buses use bus.gal

👉🏻BUS CARD 🚍 - get your bus card in the ABANCA bank and ride the bus for 0,38 euros. It is valid around the whole Galicia.

👉🏻Don´t be afraid if a bus is not at the bus stop in time. It´s normal that buses have delays. This is just Spain.

👉🏻If you want to bring a car to the city, remember that Spanish drivers are crazy and parking is even worse. A lot of cars are scratched.

👉🏻It is better to find an apartment 🏠because school accommodation is far and really expensive. Prices of apartments range between 150 - 300 euros.

👉🏻To sign a contract with a Spanish company, for instance wifi provider, almost in every case you need to have a Spanish bank account. You can open the account in ABANCA bank🏦 which is free of any charges. I have one, too.

What to see in the city?

Torre de Hércules