Environment at the beginning of the last century in Villagarcía, near the Real Club de Regatas Galicia... Don Alfonso XIII was a luxury spectator who had logically aroused a great expectation throughout Galicia (Hermeric Collection)

We are in 1902 when the Real Club de Regatas Galicia de Villagarcía de Arosa was born. Its first president was no more or less Camilo José Cela's grandfather, who was then the president of the Railway Company between Carril and Cormes (today a neighborhood of Santiago de Compostela); John Trulock.

In the task of reconverting an old club as "La Peña," as a nautical club, he had Cameron Walker as a faithful squire. The Royal House of Alfonso XIII three years gives him the title of real, praying in the concession letter: He is the dean of Galicia and one of the oldest clubs in Europe. In those years the objective of the legendary nautical club was to organize level races and to offer both the summer-makers and the local citizens themselves a place of leisure and leisure in the centre of Villagarcía.

The Nautical Week of Villagarcía created in 1913 is considered the ancient laás of Spain, which had at stake the exorbitant prize of MIL PESETAS of the time!... an entire fortune. After 104 years the dean of the nautical clubs of Galicia is not close to the sea, as it was at the time of Alfonso XIII, since the successive fillings have removed him from the first line in which he was. He is still alive and retains a certain glow of those nostalgic years, when he organizes the "Regata Admiral Rodríguez Touges de cruises" in each spring, an event that conserves the one that was Copa Alfonso XIII since 1912, which was reborn as a tribute to the great Arosan Admiral and in which he actively collaborates the Naval School of Marin.

This 1909 copy of the missing magazine Vida Gallega, whose director was Alfonso Castelao, contains a full-page report on the disappearance of the Nautico de Vigo in 1909 (Hermérico Collection).

The oldest of Galicia
The Real Club de Regatas Galicia de Villagarcía is the decano nautical club among the Galician, as it was created in 1902. The Bouzas Maritime Liceum, which appeared in 1907, follows him in order of antiquity. These two clubs are the only "centenary" of the Galician spectrum. They are followed by the Royal Nautical Club of Vigo and the Royal Nautical Club of La Coruña... both of 1926. In the case of the Viguese club there was a predecessor with the same name between 1906 and 1909, closing his story in March of that far year. It was refounded in 1926 by a commission chaired by Gerardo Campos Ramos, who left for his purpose of refounding the entity, and who had as first president the Vigo consignee Estanislao Durán. The one of La Coruña who was born also in spring had Miguel Feijóo Pardiñas as as the first president.