Catoira

Town Hall

Catoira is a municipality in the province of Pontevedra in the Autonomous Community of Galicia. It is located at the mouth of the river Ulla, at the bottom of the Arousa estuary. The history of Catoira was intimately linked to the strategic importance of the Oeste military complex. Here the culture of the castros settled through a town of the Iron Age, the Roman occupation in the time of the Pax de Augusto and from the beginning of the Middle Ages it served as a defensive shield to Galicia until the reign of the Catholic Monarchs.