{"id":50980,"date":"2023-03-27T23:20:17","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T21:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=50980"},"modified":"2024-03-27T00:07:49","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T23:07:49","slug":"the-beauty-of-galicia-the-magnificent-video-of-a-german-photographer-on-the-galician-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/03\/27\/the-beauty-of-galicia-the-magnificent-video-of-a-german-photographer-on-the-galician-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"'The beauty of Galicia': the magnificent video of a German photographer on the Galician coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am a Galician in love with his land. I have been seeing its beautiful landscapes for 47 years and I never tire of enjoying its exuberant beauty.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/08\/06\/galicia-shown-by-an-american-fascinated-by-its-rural-world-its-coast-and-its-people\/\">Galicia shown by an American fascinated by its rural world, its coast and its people<\/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>As a Galician from the coast, among my favorite places are the maritime lighthouses. <strong>Galicia has 1,175 km of coastlines illuminated by 44 lighthouses<\/strong>, among them the oldest lighthouse in the world still active: the Tower of Hercules. A while ago I came across this video published by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@TurismodeGaliciaGalicia\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Turismo de Galicia<\/a> a month ago shows some of those lighthouses:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Descubre los Faros Eternos de Galicia\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kvAFAxy4gms?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><strong>But that is not the video for which I am writing this entry<\/strong>, but for another one that I found looking for lighthouses in Galicia on Youtube. It was published by the German photographer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@DennisSchmelz\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dennis Schmelz<\/a> three years ago, with the title <strong>\"The Beauty of Galicia\"<\/strong>. Among other jewels, <strong>it shows the Cape Finisterre lighthouse, Las Catedrales beach and the \u00c9zaro waterfall<\/strong>. I thought the video was precious, especially because it shows Galicia as its inhabitants see it for a large part of the year, with the beautiful overcast sky so typical of this land (if it's so green it's because of the rain). <strong>There are two minutes of pure visual poetry recorded from a drone view:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Beauty of Galicia - 4K Aerial Video from the North of Spain\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R2ZRkvyQCh4?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 video as a preview. <strong>Here is the Finisterre lighthouse, built in 1853<\/strong>, with its spectacular surroundings.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52775027567_039ae8dc0c_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Las Catedrales Beach<\/strong>, in the town of Ribadeo (Lugo), next to Asturias.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52775565746_6d6e69bd54_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The \u00c9zaro waterfall<\/strong>, in the town of Dumbr\u00eda (La Coru\u00f1a). It is the only waterfall in Europe that flows into the sea.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52776046863_354d009ff7_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>And I leave the best of Galicia for last: its people.<\/strong> Rural Galicians are the ones who most preserve the old hospitality of always (a Galician from the city tells you this).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52776046908_bc61822116_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a Galician in love with his land. I have been seeing its beautiful landscapes for 47 years and I never tire of enjoying its exuberant beauty.<\/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":[19536,16884],"tags":[11009,18847,4407,18849,1805,18848,11184,18846,11462],"class_list":["post-50980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-seas-and-coasts","tag-dumbria","tag-ezaro-waterfall","tag-finisterre","tag-finisterre-lighthouse","tag-galicia","tag-las-catedrales-beach","tag-lighthouses","tag-ribadeo","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50980"}],"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=50980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}