D.O. Rias Baixas 

The Rias Baixas are a series of estuaries (firths, in fact) on the west-facing coast of the province of La Coruña and Pontevedra (they are called "Baixas" to distinguish them from the Rías Altas, the series of estuaries on the north-facing coast of La Coruña and Lugo). It is a lovely area to visit, though here we are looking at the Rias Baixas as denominación de origen, wine-making region, limited to Pontevedra. It has been a wine-producing region for hundreds of years (which surprises many, given Galicia's reputation for raininess), where some red wine but most traditionally white wine is made, particularly notable being the Albariño made from the grape variety of the same name.
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Deputación de Pontevedra 

Pontevedra is the Galician province with the most developed tourist industry, mainly because of the lovely Rías Baixas, the southern estuaries, and the fish and seafood extracted from them and the Atlantic into which they empty. The capital city is also attractive, though not one of the great cities of Spain, and Vigo, considerably larger than Pontevedra, is of great interest. The Islas Cíes, part of the Parque Nacional de las Islas Atlánticas de Galicia, is a sanctuary for seabirds. This is the provincial government's Galician-only website and a bureaucratic mess.
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Rías Baixas 

Well-made, informative provincial tourist board website for the province of Pontevedra. I have to specify this, as Pontevedra has appropriated the name Rias Baixas, even though La Coruña too has these a number of these great firths or estuaries, sunken river valleys in the process of being swallowed by the rising sea level. But tourism at a bureaucratic level works like that, compartmentalizingly, and there is even a tendency to call La Coruña's entire coast the Costa da Morte, Death Coast, even though that name really only applicable to the bit on the north-west corner either side of Finisterre. Never mind, this is a fine tourist information website covering the whole province of Pontevedra, its towns and villages, what to see, what to do, routes, accommodation, restaurants and other eateries (and gastronomy, very important in Galicia), castles, spas, golf and much more.
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