{"id":48216,"date":"2022-08-06T22:51:23","date_gmt":"2022-08-06T20:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=48216"},"modified":"2024-08-06T00:15:54","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T22:15:54","slug":"galicia-shown-by-an-american-fascinated-by-its-rural-world-its-coast-and-its-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/08\/06\/galicia-shown-by-an-american-fascinated-by-its-rural-world-its-coast-and-its-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Galicia shown by an American fascinated by its rural world, its coast and its people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We Galicians live in a part of Spain that is an ancient tourist destination thanks to the Camino de Santiago, which has brought us many pilgrims.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2017\/07\/03\/sunset-at-ten-oclock-in-galicia\/\">Sunset at Ten O\u2019Clock in Galicia<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/05\/12\/the-magnificent-video-of-a-french-filmmaker-showing-landscapes-of-northern-spain\/\">The magnificent video of a French filmmaker showing landscapes of northern Spain<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>One of those visitors is called Elliot, he is from Wisconsin (United States) and lives in Malaga. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/AdventureElliot\/videos\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elliot has a Youtube channel<\/a> in which he recounts his adventures in Spain, and <strong>his latest video has been dedicated to Galicia<\/strong>, traveling part of the Way of St. James to the Death Coast:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Inside GALICIA | Spain&#039;s STRANGEST Region\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/orE-pkWa9c0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/AventureroElliotenESPA%C3%91OL\/videos\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elliot has yet another channel<\/a> where he posts videos in Spanish . A few days ago he published this one about his experience on the Galician coast:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"AS\u00cd ME TRATARON LOS GALLEGOS COMO EXTRANJERO\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gCcz1OAOIdY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You can see here some screenshots of the first video, in which <strong>Elliot shows us the beauty of rural Galicia:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52267700681_9f8ce124dd_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Following the Way of St. James, <strong>Elliot passes through some places where it seems that you will find four hobbits walking<\/strong> (and some Nazg\u00fbl chasing them on horseback):<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52267964599_93a8081f55_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>In the case of Galicia, you can't miss the cruceiros (crosses).<\/strong> It is one of the most characteristic works of cultural heritage in this Spanish region. To give us an idea, <strong>in Galicia there are about 12,000 cruceiros<\/strong> at crossroads, squares, streets... They are a symbol of the enormous importance that Christianity has for the Galician people.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52268185140_90da210891_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Another feature of Galicia are the h\u00f3rreos<\/strong>, stone constructions designed to store corn and other farm products. They are built on stone pillars to prevent rodents from entering them. <strong>In Galicia there are about 30,000 h\u00f3rreos<\/strong>, since it is an eminently rural region.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52267711888_87ec1262ac_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Elliot is also surprised by the Galician cemeteries<\/strong>, which is another very common element of our architectural heritage (and another example of the religiosity of the Galicians, since the vast majority are Catholic cemeteries). <strong>Throughout Galicia there are about 3,800 cemeteries<\/strong>, many of them parochial, like the one in the image.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52268185145_4e93d037fc_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>And finally, the sea, our beloved Atlantic Ocean<\/strong>, a real sight for the pilgrims who finish their journey on the Death Coast.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52267964674_a34f89cd42_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But beyond the landscapes and architecture, <strong>one of the things that has most fascinated Elliot on his journey are the people of Galicia.<\/strong> As the American hiker points out, Galicians are a people of reserved people, but also hospitable. And that hospitality is observed above all in the field. <strong>Elliot stops to talk to people he meets along the way and everyone greets him kindly and politely.<\/strong> It's a deal that has been lost in the cities. That is the most beautiful thing about Galicia, and what I encourage you to discover when you come to this land, where you can always feel at home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We Galicians live in a part of Spain that is an ancient tourist destination thanks to the Camino de Santiago, which has brought us many pilgrims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,16885],"tags":[17139,1805,11462,10657],"class_list":["post-48216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-populations","tag-death-coast","tag-galicia","tag-spain","tag-way-of-st-james"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}