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A Ferida
A Ferida (''English: The Wound'') is a sculpture located in the municipality of Muxía, A Coruña, Spain. Made by sculptor, , it faces the Atlantic Ocean, outside the entrance of the Virxe da Barca sanctuary. The granite sculpture stands more than in height and weighs 400 tons. The granite came from O Porriño, and it is the largest sculpture in Galicia and Spain. Background The work was donated by Seguros Aegon to the Muxián council as a tribute to the volunteers who came to help the Galician people when the Prestige oil spill The ''Prestige'' oil spill occurred off the coast of Galicia, Spain in November 2002, caused by the sinking of the 26-year-old, structurally deficient oil tanker , carrying 77,000 tonnes of heavy fuel oil. During a storm, it burst a tank on 13 ... occurred on November 13, 2002. It was inaugurated on September 12, 2003. Gallery A Ferida escultura en Muxía 05.jpg, A Ferida A Ferida escultura en Muxía 03.jpg, A Ferida A Ferida escultura en Muxí ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muxía
Muxía () is a coastal town and municipality in the province of A Coruña in the autonomous community of Galicia in northwestern Spain. It belongs to the comarca of Fisterra. It is one of the final destinations for pilgrims on the Way of St. James after visiting the shrine of the apostle Saint James the Great in Santiago de Compostela. Muxía is known for its beaches. It has an active fishing industry. Muxía is part of the ' Costa da Morte' or 'Costa de la Muerte' (i.e., the "Coast of Death"). The Costa Da Morte was given this name because of the large number of shipwrecks along its rocky shore. The Costa Da Morte is one of the three regions of the Costa del Marisco, or "The Seafood Coast." Muxía is 3 kilometers from a famous Benedictine monastery that is now used as a church, the Church of San Xulián de Moraime. The name of the town, "Muxía", refers to the monks who established this monastery. Another famous church in the area is the Santuario da Virxe da Barca which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Coruña
A Coruña (; es, La Coruña ; historical English: Corunna or The Groyne) is a city and municipality of Galicia, Spain. A Coruña is the most populated city in Galicia and the second most populated municipality in the autonomous community and seventeenth overall in the country. The city is the provincial capital of the province of the same name, having also served as political capital of the Kingdom of Galicia from the 16th to the 19th centuries, and as a regional administrative centre between 1833 and 1982, before being replaced by Santiago de Compostela. A Coruña is located on a promontory in the Golfo Ártabro, a large gulf on the Atlantic Ocean. It is the main industrial and financial centre of northern Galicia, and holds the headquarters of the Universidade da Coruña. A Coruña is a packed city, the Spanish city featuring the tallest mean-height of buildings, also featuring a population density of 21,972 inhabitants per square km of built land area. Name Origin Ther ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the " Old World" of Africa, Europe and Asia from the "New World" of the Americas in the European perception of the World. The Atlantic Ocean occupies an elongated, S-shaped basin extending longitudinally between Europe and Africa to the east, and North and South America to the west. As one component of the interconnected World Ocean, it is connected in the north to the Arctic Ocean, to the Pacific Ocean in the southwest, the Indian Ocean in the southeast, and the Southern Ocean in the south (other definitions describe the Atlantic as extending southward to Antarctica). The Atlantic Ocean is divided in two parts, by the Equatorial Counter Current, with the North(ern) Atlantic Ocean and the South(ern) Atlantic Ocean split at about 8°N. Scientific explorations of the A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virxe Da Barca Sanctuary
The Virxe da Barca sanctuary is a church located in Muxía, Spain. It was destroyed by a fire that was started by lightning on 25 December 2013. History The sanctuary was originally a pre-Christian Celtic shrine and sacred spot. This part of Spain was resistant to conversion to Christianity, and was only converted in the 12th century. The Christians built a hermitage on this location at first, and later the present church in the 17th century. Gallery File:"A BARCA" Santuario - Muxía- A Coruña.jpg, Towers File:Porta no Santuario da Virxe da Barca, Muxía.jpg, Gate File:Escaleiras no Santuario da Virxe da Barca, Muxía, Galiza.jpg, Stairwells File:Retablo (desaparecido) del santuario de la Virgen de la Barca (Mugía, La Coruña).jpg, Interior, before fire File:Santuario da Virxe da Barca, Muxía.jpg, The sanctuary is near to the sea See also * List of destroyed heritage This is a list of cultural heritage sites that have been damaged or destroyed accidentally, deli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
O Porriño
O Porriño (historically known in English as ) is a municipality in Galicia (Spain), Galicia, Spain in the province of Pontevedra (province), Pontevedra. An industrial town, in the Vigo metropolitan area, it is an important economic dependency. One of its main industries is granite production; the variety of granite produced in O Porriño is known as (Porriño Pink), and is exported from the Port of Vigo mainly to Italy, Japan and China. From O Porriño came the architect Antonio Palacios, known for the use of granite in his work, such as the ''Telecommunications Palace'' in Madrid, the García Barbón Theater in Vigo, or Porrino Town Hall amongst others. It is the home town of the Sporting Lisboa woman basketball team player Andrea Pérez Alonso. On 9 September 2016, a Portuguese train travelling from Vigo to Porto 2016 O Porriño derailment, derailed near O Porriño railway station, killing the driver and at least three other people on board. Parroquias The municipality is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galicians
Galicians ( gl, galegos, es, gallegos, link=no) are a Celtic-Romance ethnic group from Spain that is closely related to the Portuguese people and has its historic homeland is Galicia, in the north-west of the Iberian Peninsula. Two Romance languages are widely spoken and official in Galicia: the native Galician and Spanish. Etymology The ethnonym of the Galicians (''galegos'') derives directly from the Latin ''Gallaeci'' or ''Callaeci'', itself an adaptation of the name of a local Celtic tribe known to the Greeks as Καλλαϊκoί (''Kallaikoí''). They lived in what is now Galicia and northern Portugal and were defeated by the Roman General Decimus Junius Brutus Callaicus in the 2nd century BCE and later conquered by Augustus. The Romans later applied that name to all the people who shared the same culture and language in the north-west, from the Douro River valley in the south to the Cantabrian Sea in the north and west to the Navia River. That encompassed such tribes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prestige Oil Spill
The ''Prestige'' oil spill occurred off the coast of Galicia, Spain in November 2002, caused by the sinking of the 26-year-old, structurally deficient oil tanker , carrying 77,000 tonnes of heavy fuel oil. During a storm, it burst a tank on 13 November, and French, Spanish, and Portuguese governments refused to allow the ship to dock. The vessel subsequently sank on 19 November, about from the coast of Galicia. It is estimated that it spilled 60,000 tonnes or a volume of of heavy fuel oil. The oil spill polluted 2300 kilometers of coastline and more than one thousand beaches on the Spanish, French and Portuguese coast, as well as causing great harm to the local fishing industry. The spill is the largest environmental disaster in the history of both Spain and Portugal. The amount of oil spilled was more than the ''Exxon Valdez'' incident and the toxicity was considered higher, because of the higher water temperatures. In 2007 the Southern District of New York dismissed a 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camiño Dos Faros
The Way of the Lighthouses, or the Lighthouse Way ( gl, Camiño dos Faros, es, Camino de los Faros) is a hiking trail along the Costa da Morte ('Coast of Death') in Province of A Coruña, the province of A Coruña, Galicia, Spain. It joins Malpica de Bergantiños, Malpica with Cape Finisterre, Finisterre along the coastline linking the lighthouses and landmarks along the way. The name of the route refers to the numerous lighthouses built on the Costa da Morte during the 19th and 20th centuries to make navigation safer. The route is divided into eight segments, averaging . The shortest segment is from Laxe to which measures , while the longest is from Camariñas to Muxía which measures . From north to south, on its way from Malpica to Fisterra the trail passes through the municipalities of Malpica de Bergantiños, Malpica, Fisterra, Ponteceso, Cabana de Bergantiños, Laxe, , Vimianzo, Camariñas, Muxía and Cee, Spain, Cee. Small crosses along the coast memorialize drowned g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
