During the Republic, in 1931, the island would become property of the State. A detachment of police was created, in charge of the fight against smuggling and to look after the property.
In 1958, the territory would be recovered by the Bourbons and Don Juan de Borbón (the owner) who in 1978 sold it to a state agency which tried tobuild a great resort like the one on the island of La Toja but this project was stopped by people living nearby. In the year 2002, it would be joined up to the National Park, and in 2007 purchased by the Xunta de Galicia. Today it´s public property.
We must emphasize the three contemporary cruise ships that exist in the archipelago as part of the maritime fluvial route of the Camino de Santiago, one at the point end Corveiro, another opposite the hermitage and one in the island of Malveira Grande.
