The Corners. At the moment it is the center of the daily life and of businesses of the city, one expands from the palace of the Harbor Authority and the theater Rosalía de Castro to the seat of General Spoz and Mine and the Palace of the subdelegation of government.

In this zone we can find the delegations of the main banks of Spain, the emblematic building of the Bank Shepherd (highest of Spain during years 20), the Obelisco (dedicated to Linares Rivas), the Gardens of Méndez Núñez, the Palace of Exhibitions and Congresses, the theater Columbus, the Kiosco Alfonso and the palace of National Radio (both of modernist character) and main the zone of purchases of the city, that includes the streets Real, Water Irrigation, Elm trees, Torreiro and Galera. 

To Corunna it is the capital of the province of Corunna. It is located in the noroccidental end of Galicia. It is an Atlantic city with smooth climate. The municipality occupies a surface of 36.8 km² and it reaches the 243,349 inhabitants (2005), (396,015 in its metropolitan agglomeration). Its urban area is second ampler of all the independent community after Vigo and its density of the most elevated population (6,600 Hab/km².). The buildable land shortage and the necessity of places of urban relaxation cause that the ground has reached an elevated price, which determines that the surfaces dedicated to the agricultural and industrial activity are transferred at the moment to the bordering municipalities of Corunna. However, its character of coastal municipality grants to the fishing great importance (more than by its direct jobs, indirect that this activity generates in other sectors like the conservero or the one of ice manufacture). All this causes that the sector services is the predominant one in the city, constituting itself in the economic and cultural center of the surrounding metropolitan area (constituted by the city councils of Arteijo, Culleredo, Cambre, Oleiros, Sada, Carral, Bergondo and Abegondo).

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