O Grove Seafood Festival

The Festa do Marisco (Seafood Festival) is O Grove's big festival: it has been held since 1963, every October, at the port. For about ten days, Praza do Corgo and its surroundings are covered with marquees, more than 5,000 m², with stalls where the ría's seafood is cooked in front of you. The 2026 edition ran from 1 to 12 October; 2027 has no announced dates yet.

How it works

You don't pay at the stalls. You buy tickets at the central ticket offices and exchange them for portions at the stands. There are no tables to sit at: you eat standing, at high tables, as at a fair. Drinks are served in a reusable cup with the festival's logo, for which a deposit of 60 cents is left. Smoking is not allowed inside the marquees, and animals are not allowed in the areas where food is served.

Besides eating, the festival teaches you to tell local seafood from that which comes from elsewhere. There is a mussel dish competition organised by the Amegrove cooperative, live cooking demonstrations and gastronomic days, A Cociña do Mar, courses and talks on the sea's resources, and an international open-air sculpture symposium held every two years.

Music, regattas and children

In the evenings the Seafood Concerts play and there is traditional Galician music and dance. The programme adds children's games, a cycling parade, a popular race and dorna regattas, the area's traditional sailing boats.

How to get there

Praza do Corgo is at the port, next to the fish market, the town hall and the tourist office, which provides each year's programme. On those days parking in the centre is difficult: leave the car at the entrance to the town and walk in. If you are going to stay, book months ahead; the A Toxa hotels are a walk from the port. And if you are left wanting mussels, the mussel boat still sails in October.