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In the hillfort of the Muro da Cidade de Medeiros (#Galicia), a warrior married a "moura" (an Otherworldy woman). After giving its inhabitants the vine plant as a gift, she moved with her husband to Quinta do Peru, giving rise to a rich family.

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2023-01-20

🏰 Un par de ilustracións que realicei para a web https://t.co/Lj6flwHqIF (Fortalezas do Reino de Galicia), que reúne unha listaxe destas e difunde o patrimonio cultural derivado das construccións orixinarias das Idades Media e Moderna.

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2022-09-28


The Aláparo was an one-legged, one-eyed monster who used to kidnap girls and women to eat them. The neighbors from Salvadur (#Galicia), fed up with this situation, hunted and killed the creature, and buried him under an oak tree that still exists today.

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2022-09-13


Near the Pena Abaladoira ('the oscillating stone'), in Alfoz (Northern a beautiful fairy woman or "moura" is believed to be living. Her hair is long and blond, and she sometimes offers a golden hare as a reward to whoever capable of untangling it.

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2022-04-18



In Pena Grande, very close to the Zoñán hillfort (co. Mondoñedo, it is said that on Saint John's Eve you can see the "encantos" (the feeric beings) playing the bagpipes and dancing!

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2021-03-10

The "herba de namorar" ( = herb of love), or Armeria maritima, that grows on the cliffs of Santo André de Teixido (#Galicia), must be picked up and put into the bag of the person you are in love with. That way, she / he will fall in love with you too!

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2021-02-11

Village au Clocher, 1925

Léon Weissberg, (born 18 January 1893 in Przeworsk (Galicia), murdered March 11, 1943 in death camp Sobibor), was a Jewish painter and eminent representative of the École de Paris.

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2019-03-24