Barca Point
Muxía
Barca Point, next to the well-known sanctuary of the same name, and the small lighthouse, was the place chosen to place the sculpture “A ferida” in memory of the Prestige catastrophe. This immense monolith sculpted in granite (400 tons and 11 metres high) is split in half, forming a crack that symbolises a metaphorical bleeding wound. Another reminder of this accident is the Volunteer Museum (currently closed).
Inside the temple, numerous, and old, miniatures of ships could be seen before the fire of December 2013, as if it were an ex-voto, in gratitude to the intercession of the Virgin in some maritime mishap.
Executor of the graphic memory of the Costa da Morte (Coast of Death). Muxía was the birthplace of photographer Ramón Caamaño Bentín (1908 – 2007). Self-taught, at the age of 16 he was photographed by the famous Hispanist Ruth Matilda Anderson when she visited the village of Barca on her trip through Galicia. He then portrayed hundreds of people and everyday scenes of the region until he was 88. He also documented numerous shipwrecks at the request of the insurance companies that hired his services to record the event. He left an archive of more than 8,000 photos and 25,000 negatives.
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