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Following a period of decline, as of the 21st century, Galway is a tourist destination known for festivals and events including the Galway International Arts Festival. [3] In 2018, Galway was named the European Region of Gastronomy. [4] The city was the European Capital of Culture for 2020, alongside Rijeka, Croatia.
River Corrib. Galway Bay (Irish: Loch Lurgain or Cuan na Gaillimhe) is a bay on the west coast of Ireland, between County Galway in the province of Connacht to the north and the Burren in County Clare in the province of Munster to the south; Galway city is on the northeast side. The bay is about 50 kilometres (30 mi) long and from 10 kilometres ...
Hiking. Difficulty. Moderate [1] [2] Season. Any. The Western Way ( Irish: Bealach an Iarthair) [3] is a long-distance trail in Ireland. It is 179 kilometres (111 miles) long and begins in Oughterard, County Galway and ends in Ballycastle, County Mayo. It is typically completed in seven days. [1] [2] It is designated as a National Waymarked ...
The Twelve Bens or Twelve Pins, also called the Benna Beola[2] (Irish: Na Beanna Beola, meaning 'the peaks of Beola'), [a] is a mountain range of mostly sharp-peaked quartzite summits and ridges in the Connemara National Park [b] in County Galway, in the west of Ireland. [4] The widest definition of the range includes the Garraun Complex to the ...
Lough Corrib. Lough Corrib (/ lɒx ˈkɒrɪb / lokh KORR-ib; Irish: Loch Coirib[5]) is a lake in the west of Ireland. The River Corrib or Galway River connects the lake to the sea at Galway. It is the largest lake within the Republic of Ireland and the second largest on the island of Ireland (after Lough Neagh). It covers 176 km² and lies ...
Garraun (Galway) Garraun (Irish: Maolchnoc, meaning 'bald hill') [2] at 598 metres (1,962 ft), is the 224th–highest peak in Ireland on the Arderin scale, [3] however, while it is just short of the elevation threshold of 600-metres for other classifications (e.g. Vandeleur-Lynam, and Hewitt), it does have the prominence to be a Marilyn. [4][5 ...