The AP-9 or Autoestrada do Atlántico is a toll motorway in Galicia , Spain . It starts in A Coruña and runs south past the cities of Santiago de Compostela , Pontevedra and Vigo , before ending at the town of Tui , a few kilometres north of the Portuguese border at the Minho River .
4-556: The AP-9 is 178 km (111 miles) in length. The first 16 km (10 miles), from A Coruña to the A-6 autovía near the towns of Guísamo and Betanzos , form part of European route E70 , while the remainder forms part of European route E01 . Between A Coruña and Vigo, the motorway runs parallel to the N-550 road, and between Vigo and Tui it runs parallel to the A-55 autovía . The AP-9 has two spurs:
8-622: The 36 km (22.5 mile) long AP-9F from Guísamo to Ferrol , which runs parallel to the N-651 road and also forms part of European route E01; and the 4 km (2.5 mile) long AP-9V, which runs into the centre of Vigo. Construction of the motorway, originally known as the A-9, began in the mid-1970s with the section between Pontevedra and Vigo, including the Rande Bridge , and also the section between A Coruña and Santiago de Compostela. The latter opened in 1979,
12-590: The AP-9, as part of the general redesignation of Spanish autopistas and autovías . Autov%C3%ADa A-6 The Autovía A-6 or Autopista AP-6 (also called Autovía del Noroeste ) ( Galician : Autovía do Noroeste ) is a Spanish autovía and autopista route that starts in Madrid and ends in Arteixo (A Coruña). The tolled Autopista AP-6, from Villalba to Adanero , has a total length of 72.19 km. It includes one of
16-471: The former two years later. Between 1988 and 1992, these two sections were gradually linked. In 1994, construction of the spur to Ferrol commenced. In the late 1990s, the A-9 was extended from Vigo to what is now the junction with the Autoestrada AG-57. Then, in the early 2000s, it was extended from this point to Tui. The spur to Ferrol was completed in 2003, and in the same year the A-9 was redesignated
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