12/08/2024
TO FILL THE WHOLE HEART
In this summer morning of a magnetic transparency, here on the top, among the ruins of the castle, with eyes flickering in awe, we feel in the murmur of the wind the slow breath of history. And we feel it pulsating as we touch the stones that form what remains of the fortress built in this impossible place, in the beginnings of the foundation of the nationality and in later times.
In fact, in this mountainous and border land the landscape transpires history through every pore: abundant megalithic monuments, the Roman and Romanesque vestiges or the dazzling granite shapes carved for eternity in a pure exercise of self-celebration. In the middle there are the pulsating or dormant memories of a very peculiar culture.
There are reports of smuggling, of lives shaped by the wanderings between "brandas" and "inverneiras", of ingenuity and resistance to the harshness of the climate, of the chocolate factory, extinct, but that reflects the perspicacity and entrepreneurship that gave it existence.
This and much more to see and hear while walking in slow pace and watchful and curious eye. Or enjoying a delicious meal inspired in the mountain tradition. Castro Laboreiro, to fill the whole heart.
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