Many honorable, prize-winning figures have visited the “End of the Earth” under the umbrella of an initiative called Programa ConCiencia, organized by the physicist Jorge Mira. These visits are the basis for an exhibition at the Lighthouse called “A sea of ​​genius at the end of the earth”.

The exhibition consists of 17 sets representing each of the visits—among which are Nobel, Abel and Turing prize winners—, consisting of their picture, an image of their signature in the Town’s Hall guestbook and a bio highlighting who they are and the reasons for their award.

Among them, the first to discover Finisterre was the Spanish writer Camilo José Cela, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1989, who spent four summers here, resulting in the Costa da Morte being immortalized in the pages of his book ‘Boxwood’.

Other prominent characters are Stephen Hawking, the first winner of the Fonseca Prize of science communication; the naturalist David Attenborough, one of the BBC’s most famous faces and the greatest science communicator alive, who was impressed by Finisterre’s commitment to the good conservation of the Cape’s natural environment; and Harold Kroto, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1996), who was delighted with the place and very surprised to find the village so small, given its status as an international reference point.

All of them agree on the beauty of the landscape. Cela had already turned Finisterre into poetry, describing it as: "The last smile of mankind’s chaos peering into infinity".