Castro de Barona.north of spain.
Castro de Barona
The Castro de Barona is the excavated site of an old Celtic fortress settlement and is situated on a highly exposed and rugged outcrop of land some twenty three thousand square metres in area. It is connected to the mainland by a narrow sandy stretch (over which you walk to reach it) and occupies a position about halfway down the Porto do Son coastline.
You can reach Castro de Barona directly from the C550, the main coast shadowing highway of the region and there is adequate parking available in a car park adjacent to a bar and restaurant which is located immediately in front of the path that leads to these artefacts. This also comes in handy if you want some refreshments after your excursion.
Typical of many of Galicia's less monumental historical sights, signs to the Castro de Barona are few and once you park up you may be forgiven for thinking that you have found the wrong spot. But look around carefully and you will see some very un-distinctive signs directing you in one of two directions - either will take you to the Castro de Barona. Additionally, expect the worse path you have ever encountered, it is truly appalling and highly dangerous and, without trying to cause further alarm, we crossed two areas splattered with blood, no doubt from recent falls.
The shot above shows the view of Castro de Barona that you will get after you have descended from the cafe area and walked for a about 5 to 10 minutes. If you reach this point and are happy with the path, then you can probably make the remaining (and much longer) part of the trip.
A cautionary note
At this point I must emphasize that the path that leads to the fort's ruins is about a mile in length (each way) and very difficult to walk on. You MUST wear trainers/sneakers at the very least and if you are elderly or have any medical problems I strongly advise you NOT to make this journey. Furthermore if it is wet or extremely windy, then give it a miss, whatever your age. The route involves walking over many small boulder-like stones which will become slippery and dangerous when wet.
Continuing on from the vantage point from which the photograph above was taken, you head downwards on a winding and undefined path, but with your eventual target now in view. When we made our visit it was a dull and blustery day, but the spectacle of the ruins still impressed and we were glad we made the effort.
Above and right you can see in more detail the old walls that make up part of the Castro de Barona. The ruins appear to occupy two of the three mounds that form the outcrop and are only a couple of feet in height. In truth, what remains of the fort is more easily distinguished from a distance than in close up, but when you reach them it is fun to have a wonder around.
When you finally reach, and climb on to, the land mass on which the Castro de Barona lay, you have some excellent panoramic views of the surrounding Porto do Son coastline. In particular, if you look to the right (as in the view in the foto to the left) you can see the nearby beaches of praia Area Longa and praia de Queiruga.
Area Longa, although difficult to get to, is renown for its long and large waves and is regarded as the best surfing points in Porto do Son. It also has a famous surfing club associated with its beach.
Castro de Barona - a verdict!
Should you visit Castro de Barona? The answer is dependant on what you like to do and see. We found it a great way to spend a couple of hours on a not too sunny day and whether the experience would have been heightened by good weather is hard to say - I suspect it would. Certainly it was not somewhere we had been determined to visit, especially if it meant sacrificing sun bathing weather on a very hot day.
If you are into your history and would like to know exactly what you are looking at, then you may be dissapointed by the abject lack of any information at the site itself. But fear not, there is a visitors center in the near by town of Porto do Son which contains some artifacts from, and information about, the Castro
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Places to see in ( Galicia - Spain ) Castro de Barona
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The Castro de Baroña is a fort located in the parish of Baroña, a municipality of Porto do Son in the province of A Coruña. The settlement, surrounded by two walls and containing twenty roundhouses that still remain today, was built on a peninsula and inhabited from the 1st Century BC to the 1st Century AD.
A moat four metres wide by three metres deep, forming the first line of defence, was dug into the isthmus that connects the town to the fort. Beyond this, there is a rampart consisting of two almost parallel stone walls filled with sand and stone. It is thought that this rampart originally connected to the town walls, creating an area most likely without housing. The main wall is well preserved and has two sides, the one on the right is made up of three gradually rising stone walls, and the one on the left is similar to that of the isthmus.
To the right of the entrance there was a defensive tower where the walls narrowed, so it is assumed that it was shut with a gate to prevent the passage of carts. It is possible that the wall previously surrounded the entire fort. There is a sloped entrance that leads into the interior living space, which is divided into four separate parts. In the first, it is debated whether the construction on the left is either a long bench or a single fallen pillar. Within this building a fireplace, some earthenware artefacts and a hole for a post were found, indicating it could have been a forge. Set against the gate, there are other oval shaped structures with a hall and another that could have been a forge.
The next section is separated by a retaining wall and is reached by some stairs, which are the best preserved of all Galician forts. This section contains a group of houses forming an area sheltered from the wind. A trail leads to the highest part of the town where there are other surviving structures. Evidence suggests the town was self-sufficient. Inside the fort there was no water, springs or wells, thus there was the need to source water elsewhere. It is thought that food came primarily from the sea, and so basically consisted in shellfish and fish. They also ate cattle, goats, sheep and acorns. At the site there are remains of metalwork, masonry and textiles.
The Castro de Baroña was first excavated in 1933 by Sebastián González-García. The subsequent excavations were carried out by J. M. Luengo (1969-1970), Francisco Calo Lourido and Teresa Soeiro (1980 to 1984). Ánxel Concheiro (1984) and Francisco Calo (1985) reinforced the structural integrity of the fort, and a new round of excavations and renovations was started on May 21, 2012.
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The Castro de Barona is the excavated site of an old Celtic fortress settlement and is situated on a highly exposed and rugged outcrop of land some twenty three thousand square metres in area. It is connected to the mainland by a narrow sandy stretch (over which you walk to reach it) and occupies a position about halfway down the Porto do Son coastline.
You can reach Castro de Barona directly from the C550, the main coast shadowing highway of the region and there is adequate parking available in a car park adjacent to a bar and restaurant which is located immediately in front of the path that leads to these artefacts. This also comes in handy if you want some refreshments after your excursion
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Spain: Mourners pay tribute to Castro at his father's home in Lancara
A memorial service for the former Cuban leader Fidel Castro was held at the house where his father, Angel Castro, was born, in Lancara on Sunday.
The revolutionary’s father emigrated from Galicia to the Caribbean island during the Second War of Independence. However, a 103-year-old cousin of Fidel Castro's still lives in the region to this day and attended the memorial service. Overall around 100 people attended the commemoration at Angel Castro's former home, which local authorities are hoping to turn into a museum. During the ceremony a wreath was placed and commemorators observed a minute of silence.
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Castro de Baroña
Concello : Porto do Son
Provincia: A Coruña
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Este poblado castreño se encuentra a orillas de la Ría de Muros y Noia, en la península del Barbanza. Se trata de uno de los pocos castros conservados basados en una economía básicamente marítima, ya sea por ser la base de su alimentación o por sus posibilidades comerciales en épocas tardías. Situado en una pequeña península este castro cuenta con casi veinte casas y una explendida muralla que defendía de los atacantes. Su cronología se puede datar alrededor de los siglos I a.c. y I d.c. Uno de los problemas que se encontraron los pobladores fue la inexistencia de un manantial de agua ni tan siquiera de algibes de almacenamiento, por lo tanto dependían totalmente del exterior.
Podemos asegurar de que se trataba de un poblamiento claramente defensivo, situado en un precioso ismo, rodeado del inflanqueable mar y por una pequeña porción de arena de playa, en la cual existía un gran foso y una muralla de manpostería que unía sus muros con los del poblado. La comunión de sus habitatantes con el mar se atestigua gracias a los restos de concheiros encontrados y los hallazgos de anzuelos. No se puede asegurar la existencia de navegación, aunque la presencia de restos de animales de aguas más profundas y de posibles restos de piedras, que podrían ser pesos para las redes, así lo demuestra. De no ser así no se concibería la existencia de poblados en islas alejadas de la costa como lo es el asentamiento de las Islas Cíes en la Ría de Vigo.
Este castro debió, seguramente, ir desapereciendo como tantos otros, por la presión de los conquistadores romanos.
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Fidel Castro's birthplace - Biran - attracts a steady stream of visitors.
And those who visit soon discover that the man who would become a global symbol of communism was the son of a rugged, self-made capitalist.
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At the end of a dirt road lined with fields of sugar cane, royal palms and tropical fruit trees, a cluster of wooden houses painted in brilliant yellow, blue and white draws thousands of Cuban and international tourists a year.
It's the birthplace of Cuba's revolutionary leaders Fidel and Raul Castro.
Their father, Angel Castro had come from Spain's impoverished Galicia province to fight against Cuban independence, and settled in the new nation in 1902 as a landless labourer.
Barely literate, he organised contract labour for the U.S.-based United Fruit Company and bought land, eventually building a 32,100-acre farm in a lawless, backward part of eastern Cuba.
Decades later, the farmstead at Biran would become the first property officially confiscated by his son's government under a land reform programme.
Angel planted and sold sugarcane and timber as well as raising cattle on 46 square miles (119 square kilometres) of land in Biran, deep in the lush green hill country of Holguin province in eastern Cuba.
Fidel Castro was born on Aug. 13, 1926, to Angel's maid, lover and eventual second wife, Lina, who also had roots in Galicia. He grew up in a rambling two-story wood house, attended a one-room plantation school and learned to hunt. Younger brother Raul once tended a bar at the family's roadside saloon.
Castro later said that life among the barefoot sons of poor farm labourers helped form his social conscience. By some accounts, he squabbled with his father over their treatment.
Antonio López, the chief historian of Biran says Fidel's rural upbringing forged his character.
''What does Biran and those times give them to Fidel? That he does not miss the opportunity to compare why some people have (wealth) and those who are working do not have any. This brought him to the conclusion .....we are doing well, but those who gave it to us? Those who sweat? So that early education of not looking over anyone's shoulder, Biran gave him, the family and the physical social environment.''
87 year old Martin Castro Batista is also Angel's son and Raul and Fidel Castro's half brother.
Unlike his half-brothers he has remained in Biran his whole life.
All my life I've lived here, right now look how I live. I live here on my own, fighting, milking, I plant a piece of coffee there, I also have food, I raise animals and that's how I live.''
He recalls their father as a hard worker, even when he was elderly.
He worked like a mule. He got up at dawn and went from there to there planting wood, because he sowed many cedar trees, everything that was timber, he had a brigade of Galicians who helped him to sow. Now there are few (trees), there are not many, because after the revolution people came to chop wood and took more than what has been sown. There is less now.''
Castro remembers Fidel as a serious child, with good intentions and Raul as the 'fun' younger brother.
''We got along well, what happened is that I grew up apart from them, but we got along well. Yes, they treated me well and more like a brother. And the old man was also a good person, a good Galician, good with his workers and all who served him, a person of good conscience. And Fidel was the same too, came out to him with those characteristics of being good, because Fidel everything he did was also good, he did not like the bad, he helped those who had nothing. And Raul too, but as a younger brother was more fun, he liked fun. Fidel was more devoted to studies.''
But since 2002, the site has been a museum.
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