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Medieval element
Francos' street
Place
There's no any explanation about the name of this street but the Rúa de Francos was in the medieval ages a important place of settlements of pilgrims because it is only 14 km. to santiago. The cross of this road dates on the 14 century and it's one of the oldest cruiceds in galicia. It has a granitic base without trates and a gotic style cruice. It was painted in one of Castelao pictures. The Paradela brigde is a contruction from the late medieval ages and it's part of the portugues way to santiago. In Sant's Martiños forest there's also a tradicional feast on 11st november (the horse feast of sant's martiño) that it's celebraded since 16 century. This feast born as a means to raise funds when the crown increased the taxes of the town. ( secoundary information from the official page of galician turisma and primary sources of photography)
 

Laura Montaña Mata, Mateo Pardal Vila, Raúl Suárez Cea, Ruben Noya Doce · 30 abril 2018 15:37


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1 Carballeira de Francos Here we are going to start our explanation and we are going to talk about the feast and wwere going to see the informational poster. 42,815039804 -8,621993065
2 Calvary Here we're going to explain the cross and it's meaning. 42,814622684 -8,620045781
3 Paradelas brigde Here we are going to expain the santiagos way and say the riddle. 42,814977062 -8,621329553

Riddle
Four has the deck of cards,
also four has the chess game,
many are in the stables,
can you tell me what it is?

Answer: the horse.

Medieval element
Ponte de Augapesada
Structure
É unha ponte que ten orixes Romanas, está situada en Augapesada.O arco dos pilares da ponte é un arco de media punta rebaixado. Está enriba do rego do Aveneiral. Ten Unha rasada enchepada de trazado curvo e está feita de grandes lousas de pedra. Posúe un van e dous lavadoiros ( Isto segundo fontes secundarias, porque na nosa investigación primaria só atopamos un). Actualmente é un monumento que visitan os peregrinos que recorren o Camiño de fisterra. A ponte en sí xa non ten utilidade, pero itinerarios das vías romanas nomean a Augapesada como un lugar de paso cara as terras noroccidentais de Galicia.
 

Jorge Iglesias Carracedo, Lois Negreira Barreiro, Mario Montero Benito, Nicolás Iglesias Piñeiro · 26 abril 2019 18:03


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1 Ponte de Augapesada É Unha ponte que está situada na parroquia de Ames. Permitía atravesar o regueiro de Augapesada. Forma parte do Camiño de Santiago que vai a Fisterra. Levaranos 5 minutos. 42,889503803 -8,650288158

Question, riddle or game
Incapaz soy de llorar y siempre alegro el camino, por mis ojos de continuo el agua corre hacia el mar.


RESPUESTA:PUENTE


Medieval element
The Irmandiños
Event
The Irmandiños were a group of peasants, inhabitants of the cities, low nobility, hidalgos and even members of the clergy who, tired of the injustices and abuses of the feudal lords, organized boards to establish an order throughout Galicia. These boards, called Brotherhoods, were armies to face the nobles and bishops. The Irmandiños Revolt was a social revolt that took place between 1467 and 1469, which began in a situation of social conflict (hunger, epidemics and abuses of the nobility) and political (civil war in Castile). Due to this, "A Santa Irmandade" ("Holy Brotherhood") was formed, to reveal itself against the evils and accumulated damages that the town suffered from the nobility. At the yell of "Long live the Holy Brotherhood, die knights and bishops!" the Irmandiños, that counted with 80000 troops, attacked their enemies: the noble owners of castles and fortresses. The Irmandiños, who had previous military experience in the feudal armies, imposed themselves on the lords, who had to flee to Portugal or Castile. During the two years of war, they destroyed 130 castles and fortresses. Finally, they managed to bring order to all of Galicia. But the feudal lords soon organized well-armed armies to regain power. The Brotherhoods resisted, although they ended up being defeated, due to the inclusion of a new fire weapon in the troops of the nobles: the arquebus. Despite having been beaten, the situation did not return exactly as before, as some social improvement was achieved. The Towers of Altamira were one of the many castles demolished by the Irmandiños during the revolt, although it was reconstructed in 1971. This towers are, nowadays, the ruins of a medieval feudal castle, which belonged to the Moscoso family, built in the ninth century in an old fort. The castle had six rectangular towers, a wall that crosses a palace and a chapel where the owners were buried. The most important tower, and which was the central structure of the medieval castle, was the keep. It didn't serve as a residence of the feudal lord, who didn't live in the castle. The prisioners were on the lowest floor of the tower and the treasures were stored upstairs. They accessed the highest areas with a ladder that they placed to climb and, once up, they took it out to avoid that, in case of being attacked, the enemies could easily enter. In addition, the walls of this tower were very wide to protect it from attacks. Its name in Spanish (torre del homenaje) is due to the fact that in it the homage ceremony took place, in which the lord gave a vassal a fief in exchange for his loyality and troops to fight. As a curiosity, in one of the towers, we can see different brands such as five-pointed stars or letters that show us the different stonemasons workshops that participated in the construction of the building. https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torres_de_Altamira https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torre_del_homenaje https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revuelta_Irmandi%C3%B1a The book "Historia de Galicia, a nosa historia", editions A nosa terra
 

Celia Corral Noguera, Lucía Rodríguez Lema · 2 mayo 2018 19:49


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1 Towers of Altamira In the Towers of Altamira, we will give a brief explanation, of little less than ten minutes, about the Irmandiños and the situation that prompted them to rebel against the nobles and the bishops. We also plan to visit the different areas of the towers and talk about the brands of stonemasons of one of the towers and the importance of the keep. 42,877479561 -8,687481880

Riddle
What association was formed to fight against the abuses of the nobility over the town?

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Andrea Barreiro, Irene Calvo González, Sara Casuso Mosquera, Uxía Fabeiro Wiliiman · 11 abril 2019 20:41


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Question, riddle or game
Encima do Río Sar me veredes,
e se vos atrevedes
moi seguros por encima pasaredes.


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Álvaro De Soto López, Jorge Rodríguez Garrido, Nayra Prado González, Sofía Álvarez Castro · 26 abril 2019 16:50


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1 Indicator of "Camino de Santiago-Finisterre" It's the first parade of our group, here is a indicator of km of "Camino de Santiago-Finisterre" It is a artificial rock that have numbers and a draw of a scallop in it. This numbers are the missing kilometers to Finisterra. The countdown begins with 87 km, in Santiago de Compostela, and finishes in Cabo Finisterre. The scallop is the symbol of the pilgrimage. Formerly, all the pilgrims who arrived to Santiago received a scallop shell. Wearing the shell was considered a tribute to the Apostle, and people could distinguish wich pilgrims were coming back home or wich ones didn't arrive to Santiago yet. Nowadays, scallop shel is just a symbol of the Camino de Santiago. 42,886640548 -8,632583928
2 Medieval bridge "Camino de Santiago-Finisterra" passes next to this medieval bridge. We aren't going to explain more things about it because this element was choosed by other group. 42,889476422 -8,650334913
3 End of our rout "Camino de Santiago-Finisterre" continues a long distance to Finisterre, but we finish our route here. 42,888998526 -8,653498935
4 Another Signal of "Camino de Santiago-Finisterre" This is another indicator of the way. Here, we can see other numbers in the indicator of kilometers to Finisterre, evidently. But we can see somethinng new. On this rock are a group of small stones. It's a tradition to put a small stone over the signal of the way, and that has its story. We don't know who began this tradition, but we know why. In the origins, people did this to indicate to next pilgrims that people have already went down that way. But now, people leave small stones there due to another reason. Experts on "Camino de Santiago" explain that people usually do this to get free of problems, sadness and fear, these things get petrified in the way. 42,886539975 -8,634737491
5 Another Signal of "Camino de Santiago-Finisterre" else Here, we are going to tell a story about the scallop shells of the Camino de Santiago. It was a young man who was playing a game or challenge. The game consisted in throw to the air a spear, and the carrier of the spear had to catch it before it fell down, riding a horse. The spear of the man fell into the sea, and the men and the horse tried to catch it, but they fell into the water. There was a boat of a group of pilgrims who tourned surprised when the man came out the water, but he had his body full of scallop shells. The fact that the man was saved and his subsequent immersion to the Christianity was thought as a miracle, so it was established that every pilgrim who did Camino de Santiago, should wear a scallop shell. 42,889780962 -8,650404350

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