The Magazine
The Ribeira Sacra, closely read.
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7 MIN
Octopus, Caldeiro and the Feira That Refuses to Die
Octopus, carne ó caldeiro and a calendar of fixed market days: how the feira still gathers the rural Ribeira Sacra around a wood fire today.
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7 MIN
The Case Ribeira Sacra Forgot to Make
ICOMOS advised against inscribing Ribeira Sacra. The objections are fair — and point to a stronger case the Waterscape dossier never made.
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7 MIN
San Xoán: The Shortest Night of the Year
San Xoán in the Ribeira Sacra: bonfires, sardines, queimada and the dawn herb ritual — what happens on the night of 23 June, and how to find it.
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7 MIN
The Cubela Loop: A Gold Road That Became a Walk
The PR-G 180 around the Sil’s Cubela meander: a Roman gold road through soutos, carved stone and Mediterranean riverbank.
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7 MIN
The Bees Taught Her to Read the Land: Melsacra
Christina and her brother Carlos returned to the Ribeira Sacra to reconnect with their roots and the beekeeping their grandfathers left them.
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7 MIN
The Forest Just Grows Here: Emmely and Ecofinca Tanquián
One of Galicia’s oldest permaculture projects, in Pantón: thirty-five years of working with the land, building community, and staying put.
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7 MIN
Campodola & the Roman Gold
A two-day geological drive in Quiroga and Ribas de Sil: the Roman gold tunnel of Montefurado and the Campodola-Leixazós fold.
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A Festival Built Into the Rock: Fest Clásico Ribeira Sacra
Free chamber music every August in Ribeira Sacra’s rural churches. Festival and academy based in a restored hydroelectric village at Os Peares.
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7 MIN
Doa, the Muralist Who Returns the Gaze to Plants
Muralist Doa Ocampo on Reforestando, botanical activism and why Ribeira Sacra should be cared for its residents, not only its visitors.
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7 MIN
Ribeira Sacra Depopulation: What the Average Hides
68,000 people across twenty-six concellos, barely moving. The average holds three different futures together and makes them look like one.