Now you have the oportunity to download your audioguide in mp3, in several languages and without effort.

Rutas mp3! Audioguides born to be downloaded and listened to without limits. Choose what to visit, what to learn, where to stop... in a different, comfortable and easy way. You are the one deciding how and when to discover Mondariz-Balneario.

In this webpage you have at your disposal:

• Around an hour and a half of audio in spanish, galician and english, in three different routes:
• Route #1: Mondariz-Balneario
• Route #2: From Troña to Sobroso
• Route #3: Mondariz-Covelo
• The route maps with the main points of interest, to guide you and not let you lose your track.
• History, legends, art, anecdotes, gastronomy... all you need to know to fully enjoy your visit.

Download the map with the routes and travel around at your pace, with your own mp3 player. If you prefer to download the routes on the spot, you just need to come around the Town Hall of Mondariz-Balneario. There you will have a laptop at the library for you to download the routes.

What's the project "Rutas mp3"?
It's a project born with the objective of fulfilling the new demands of tourists, customised, convenient and faster solutions.

What can be expected from it? What does it involve?
Rutas MP3 project will provide visitors wanting to meet Mondariz Balneario with a new high quality innovative tourist offer. It involves the development of tourist audioguides in mp3 file format, that users will be able to download to any MP3 player, be it from this web site or from a computer placed at the Tourism Office of the Town Hall.

Where did this idea come from?
An MP3 player is a great travel mate, because:

• Its use is quite common and there are millions of units
• They come in a great variety, with different capacities, and also,
• MP3 file format can be played from cell phones to PDAs

This project is leaded by the Borough Council of de Mondariz Balneario, together with the constant advice of the Innovation Private Agent, dhuman consultores. The project could be realized thanks to being awarded a grant aid from the Xunta de Galicia, within the program: Concellos dixitais 2008-2009, that also counts with shared financing from the Ministerio de Industria, Turismo e Comercio, the Plan Avanza and the European Regional Development Fund.

Which are the main features of the product?

• The routes can be played in real time. As the tourist is walking, a narrator is relating the information about the route.
• The routes are available in Galician, Spanish and English.
• Through a track system, the tourist can pause, rewind or forward the guide, whenever it's desired, adapting it to their pace.
• The high quality of the contents and the integration of all the routes in the same web site give the project a differentiating character.

How many routes does this project include?
The following routes are within this project:

• Route #1: Mondariz Balneario
• Route #2: From Troña to Sobroso
• Route #3: Mondariz-Covelo

What's the mean difficulty of these routes?
All the routes included in the project are characterised by their ease of access and execution.

Mondariz-Balneario
Through this simple tour along Mondariz Balneario you will meet emblematic, historical and natural places like San Pedro chapel, the Gran Hotel, the spa complex, the thermal fountains, etc. It is a route of approximately 4 Km., starting from the thermal complex and finishing in the thermal fountain Fonte de Troncoso.

Click on the image to access the geolocated images gallery for this route.

From Troña to Sobroso
In this route you will discover interesting arqueological remains and monuments of a great historical importance. From Mondariz Balneario you will arrive to the Fort Hill of Troña to end up in the Castle of Sobroso.

Click on the image to access the geolocated images gallery for this route.

Mondariz-Covelo
During this route you will unveil an area filled with spirituality and history. You will visit the most renowned ecclesiastical buildings and monuments of the surroundings of Mondariz Balneario: the rector house of Barcia de Mera or Master Cerviño Stonecross of the afflicted in Covelo. You may also be able to rest in the river beaches of Ceo or Maceira.

Click on the image to access the geolocated images gallery for this route.

turgalicia
esgalicia.com (rural houses)
riasbaixas.depo.es (Rías Baixas tourism web site)
turismoenpontevedra.es
agarimo.com (Rías Baixas rural tourism web site)
infogalicia.org
turismogalicia.info
agalicia.com (Union of tourism professionals web site)
galitursport.com (adventure travel)
turismourense.com (Ourense tourism web site)
lugotur.com (Lugo tourism web site)
balnegal.com (the best hot springs and spas in Galicia)
senderosdegalicia.com (hiking routes along Galicia)