The Counter Armada

It is the year 1589. The Spanish Empire under Philip II heads an unprecedented world hegemony, but great power brings dangerous enemies: Elizabeth of England, who harbored a particular enmity toward the Spanish monarch, had destroyed the previous year the Spanish Armada in the English Channel. Taking advantage of Spain’s humiliation, she sends a huge fleet led by the feared corsair Francis Drake to the Spanish coasts, known as the English Armada or the Counter-Armada… Will you be able to defend A Coruña from the invading siege? With our app you'll visit the most emblematic locations of A Coruña starting from Plaza de María Pita, the heroine at the center of this story, winding through the alleys of the Old Town and ending again in the Barrio da Pescadería: a walk full of curiosities in which we tell you about some of the real sites where this exemplary victory took place—an episode later clouded in history by the defeat of the Armada. Did you know that the English victory was actually due to a storm that devastated the Spanish fleet? The truth is, they sold their version better in the history books.