Emigration Connect with Galicia participants learn about the natural beauty of Parque das Illas Atlánticas | Galicia, Alberta

Santiago de Compostela, August 10, 2023.

Approximately 30 Galician boys and girls from abroad in the second period of the Conecta con Galicia program of the Immigration Department of Xeral, they finish their stay in our autonomous community and in the last few hours they go to Illas Cíes to discover the natural beauty of the park of the Atlantic Islands. They were also able to learn how the Galician canning sector developed through the visit AnafacoNational Canned Fish and Seafood Manufacturers Association. Today, Thursday, they went to Santiago de Compostela, making a section of the Camino de Santiago leaving A Susana and entering the Camino Portugues.

During these days they also visited Aquis Querquennis Foundation In Ourense, the Rosas Aviation Center We were in Lugo and had fun Sacra Ribera on a catamaran.

This program, implemented in collaboration with the General Directorate of Xuventude, over two periods and which takes place in the Gandarío Refuge, allows people born in Galicia or descendants of Galician immigrants between the ages of 16 and 17 to come into contact with Galician reality and meet with their relatives, with the assumption of many From them the first possibility to know physically the land of their ancestors, and the generations of the family that remained in the territory of Galicia.

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