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Andrea Vilas Pampín, Emma Iacobe Vázquez García, Paula Viñas Lamas · 7 abril 2019 19:34


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1 Capela da Madalena Esta é a Capela da Madalena, situada en Milladoiro, cerca do Camiño Portugués. Imos falar da Capela da Madalena durante uns tres minutos e despois falaremos do Camiño Portugués durante uns catro minutos. Mesturaremos a explicación aquí escrita co que dicimos no vídeo e seguramente engadamos un pouco máis de información. 42,841515191 -8,577656724
2 Final do Camiño Portugués (Catedral de Santiago de Compostela) Este é o final do Camiño Portugués, onde se sitúa a Catedral de Santiago de Compostela. 42,880618465 -8,544702530
3 Principio Camiño Portugués Está é a Catedral de Tui, onde empeza, aproximadamente, o Camiño Portugués. Tamén está Cerca da fronteira con Portugal. 42,045673947 -8,644428226

Question, riddle or game
Que significa o topónimo do Milladoiro?


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The game of the oca in relation to the Camino de S
Object
The Goose Game, is an encrypted map of the Camino de Santiago, where the Templars marked the places, which had a certain meaning. It is a hieroglyphic, where the symbols were known by the whole Order, and that allowed an understanding to all the lords of the Order, regardless of the language of each one. The game of the goose represents the round trip on one side of the board the outward journey is comprised of 32 stages, placing the lake of geese in the cathedral
 

Daniel Mato Gómez, niko pato ces, Yenny Medina Cardoso · 3 mayo 2018 16:08


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1 Aldea de Oca Oca, which means Goose in English, is a village in Ames near de Santiago Way to Fisterra. It is a common of place alongo the way and shows the relationship between these animal and the Way of Saint James 42,926648000 -8,673859000

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How is each stage of the Saint James way represented in the Game of the Goose?


SOLUTION: They are represented by the different boxes of the Game of the Goose.

The team and the medieval element
 

Jaime Fernández Fernández, Lorena Viñas Lafuente, Natalia Paz Peláez, Zulfa Muiño Vilela · 5 abril 2019 18:53


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1 Pedras do Home In the trail, we are going to explain everything that we know about this element: what is it made of, its story... More less, we´ll talk 10 minutes 43,028124686 -8,657194509

Question, riddle or game
¿De qué está hecho el elemento medieval?
Sol: de piedra
¿Cuántos sarcófagos tiene en total?
Sol: 3
¿De qué siglo es este monumento?
Sol: entre el siglo VIII y el XI


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Torres de Altamira
Structure
The castle of the Torres de Altamira is located in the municipality of Brión, in the province of La Coruña. It was built on a hill and is now surrounded by an extensive landscape, including farmland, forest and a small village, and from here you can see the whole valley of Mahía. The ruins are what remains of a medieval castle that was re-built in the 15th century, which in itself was built on the remains of an ancient fortification constructed in the 9th century, by the Moscoso family, who played an important role in the history of medieval Galicia. The castle was partly destroyed by the Irmandiños during the Revolt, and the walls then rebuilt to withstand gunpowder. After several other reconstructions, the castle eventually had six rectangular towers, a wall surrounding a palace, and the Chapel of the Magi, where the owners were buried in elaborate tombs, all of them included in an enclosure with a polygonal plan. The castle remained with the family until the 17th century when the dilapidation of the castle began After all the damage suffered from battles, a fire and time, only parts of the outer wall and the base remain. Some of the original stonework was even used by an Galician/American businessman to build his own house. In 1973, the Diputación de A Coruña started restoration work on the castle, and it became a part of the National Heritage in 1994. There have been several recent discoveries, such as coins, documents and even a piece of clothing. Said discoveries are now stored in the Provincial Museum of Pontevedra.
 

Dominic Iglesias Rodriguez · 3 mayo 2018 21:30


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Riddle
It has a golden head
It has a golden tail
but it has no body
what is it ?

Answer: Coin
There have been lots of coins found in that location

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Pedra do Home
Place
Pedra do Home is located near the parish church of Portomouro, Val do Dubra. It is a historical site where there are tombs made of stone in which human shapes are carved. These tombs date back to the early Middle Ages, especially between the 8th and the 11th century, probably built by the Suevi. They are the remains of an old cemetery where corpses were buried in accordance with the Christian tradiction: with the heads of the deceased to the west and the feet to the east, exactly the same orientation that the churches maintained in old times. Currently there are three sarcophagi and they all have: a hole adapted for the head and a space for the rest of the body which is narrower at the feet. They were covered with a lid also made of stone. This immense cemetery was always associated with a church or a hermitage where a religious person lived alone. Probably for this reason, there are some remains of these constructions near the cemetery. Pedra do home was also called Pedra dos Mouros by the local people. The Mouros are the popular supernatural beings in Galician mythology. It is said, according to oral testimonies, that the stones were originally 5 meters high and in the cemetery there were more than a dozen sarcophagi, but now there are only three. In addition it had a staircase and a platform from which you could see the bridge and the river Tambre. In the 1950s, a treasure hunter from Santiago, called “Juan do Romaño”, asked for permission to find the treasure of the “Mouros” which he believed was hidden there and exploded the rock with dynamite, which caused irreparable damage to some parts of this whole historical place. Information sources: http://www.santiagoturismo.com/monumentos/monumento-megalitico-a-pedra-do-home http://galiciapuebloapueblo.blogspot.com.es/2014/10/pedra-do-home.html
 

David Rouco Almuiña, Inés Pazos Kim, Juan Núñez Touriño, María Peña Rodríguez · 30 abril 2018 15:48


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1 Pedra do Home First of all, we are going to give a short explanation of Pedra do Home in English and then in Spanish. After that we´re going to tell you a riddle and finally we are going to take a look at the sarcophagi. It will take about 15 minutes. 42,967178987 -8,641138794

Riddle
I'm like a human being
Clear on the outside, dark inside
I have a beautiful sculpture
Where I keep everything of yours
Who am I?
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