sábado, 17 de noviembre de 2012

Remains of a celtic hamlet



       As many of you may know, the celts were the former dwellers of the north-west of Spain, so there are plenty of remains all around. In Galicia there are countless  reasonably well preserved "castros", as their villages are known. The photos I'm posting today have been taken in Castro de Borneiro, during one of our rambles.

     This little hamlet was ideally located, nestling in a cosy leafy valley, next to a lovely stream abounding in trouts. It was a very sheltered place, where hunting and fishing must have been quite good. Furthermore, it must have been very difficult to discover for potential invaders, completely sorrounded by such a wild wood.

      It was a nice and interesting visit, trying to make out the past. Imagining our ancestors walking around, doing their daily activities. The alleys crowded by children, craftsmen and women buying/exchanging goods. Not to speak of the domestic animals, hens, goats, pigs... Maybe I have a wild imagination, but this could be a fantastic location for a historic or epic film. With this lush vegetation on a foggy day it would  make the perfec atmosphere...






     Nearly two thousand years later and still standing, in spite of not being constructed neither by engineers nor by architects! Concrete was still to discover, of course.

Someone's home
     
       Some excavations should be carried out here. The whole place has to be full of all sorts of tools, ranging from pottery to weapons or jewlery, for example. This is culture, OUR culture, our past, and we should know as much as possible about it. It's a pity there's not a little museum or something here, like in many other "castros".

     All in all, the visit was worth it! It is a relaxing place, with the singing of the birds and the murmur of the brook in the background.

We'll come back for another visit at some point