La Zapateira, Mountain summit near A Coruña, Spain.

La Zapateira is a summit of 235.964 metres at the meeting point of A Coruña, Culleredo and Arteixo, its highest point marked by the Castiñeira geodetic vertex in the parish of Rutis. The name now covers the residential area above Penarredonda and the upper buildings of the University of A Coruña's Campus da Zapateira. It separates the basins of the Castro and Trabe streams, which flow to the Burgo estuary.

A necropolis of 33 megalithic mounds, dated to around 3000 BCE, ran some 2.5 km east to west along the ridge from Vilaboa-Rutis to Uxes, between the Trabe and Castro streams. Excavations began in 1935 under the Amantes del Campo society, with Francisco Vales Villamarín and Luís Monteagudo among those involved; the last mound, inside the golf course, was dug in 1976 before its destruction.

The name A Zapateira now covers more than the summit: in A Coruña it designates the residential area above Penarredonda, and the university buildings at the highest point form the Campus da Zapateira. In Culleredo it names the road running past the Sporting Club Casino grounds from Avenida de Nova York to the second AC-14 tunnel.

The summit lies at the junction of A Coruña, Culleredo and Arteixo, reached by road from the Avenida do Alcalde Alfonso Molina; the geodetic marker of Castiñeira stands at the 236-metre high point. The surrounding hills are a TECOR hunting zone active all year, so walkers should keep to forest tracks and wear visible clothing. Much of the old cart road survives only as forest track, and part of it crosses the golf course.

The last of the 33 megalithic mounds was excavated in 1976 inside the golf course, after serving in 1972 as the tee of hole 1 and in 1974 as the tee of hole 3. Luis Monteagudo directed the rescue dig before its destruction.