The last great stone cathedral built in Europe, finished in 1965 on the site of the old gaol. Dome, mosaics, and the organ recitals. Donation welcome.

Begun 1320, the largest medieval parish church in Ireland still in use. Columbus is said to have prayed here in 1477. Saturday market outside.

Merchant tower house of about 1500 and the best preserved in the city, now a bank. Look up for the gargoyles. Lobby display during bank hours.

Two arches of the 1584 extension to the town wall, where the Corrib meets the bay. The grass in front is where the city sits on a fine evening.

Sixty metres of the original 1270s wall and two rebuilt towers inside the shopping centre. The biggest surviving piece of medieval Galway.

Street market beside St Nicholas’ since the 1800s. Saturdays all year, Sundays too in summer, daily at Christmas. Food, crafts, Madame Chocolat.

The fishing village across the Wolfe Tone Bridge that had its own king until the 1950s. Swans at the basin, the Hookers at the quay, the Dominican church.

Ivy-covered ruin of the Blake family house on the Corrib, burned in 1910. View it from the riverbank or from a Corrib Princess cruise. Private land around it.

The 1849 Tudor-Gothic quad, open to wander. The Hardiman Library and Bailey Allen Hall host public lectures and exhibitions.

The black-hulled, red-sailed workboats of the bay, moored at the Claddagh basin. Cruinniú na mBád in Kinvara each August.