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Viking Festival of Catoira has been celebrated since 1961. The first stage was the Ateneo de Ullán forum between 1961 and 1964. In 1959, the poet and priest Faustino Rey Romero from Isorna along with the poet Baldomero Isorna Casal from Catoira, founded the Ateneo de Ullán, an artistic and literary forum made up of intellectuals from the local area.
Since 1961, the Viking Festival of Catoira, Pontevedra in Galicia (Spain), reenacts a Viking troop landing on their shores. It is celebrated with Galician music and food. [63] In the popular history TV show "Vikings" Bjorn Ironside sails to the Mediterranean and launches a raid on Spain under Muslim control.
the Viking Festival of Catoira, held on the first Sunday in August (Declared of International Tourist Interest), the Supervisory Celebrations; Feast day of Saint Anthony of Padua, held on the second Sunday in July, during which the famous Gastronomical Celebration "da Solla" is celebrated. The local parishes have (during the summer) their own ...
Statue in Catoira, Galicia, commemorating the Viking invasions. Gundered (Spanish: Gunderedo; putatively Old Norse: Guðrǫðr; sometimes rendered Gunrod or Gunrød) was a Viking warlord, known only from a group of twelfth-century Spanish Latin Chronicles all of which derive from the lost eleventh-century Chronicle of Sampiro: the Historia Silense, the Liber chronicorum of Pelayo of Oviedo
During the 9th and 10th centuries, the counts of Galicia owed fluctuating obedience to their nominal sovereign, and Normans/Vikings occasionally raided the coasts. The Towers of Catoira See "Catoira History" (Pontevedra) were built as a system of fortifications to stop Viking raids of Santiago de Compostela.
Viking Festival of Catoira; Viking raid on Galicia and Asturias; Viking raid on Seville; Vikings in Iberia This page was last edited on 21 August 2024, at 06:30 ...
Oeste Towers (Galician and Spanish: Torres de Oeste) is a castle in Catoira, Galicia, Spain. It is located at the head of the Ría de Arousa. It is in the region of Caldas , in the river Ulla estuary. The towers remaining today are the ruins of Castellum Honesti. Torres del Oeste has been declared a national monument.
Viking expansion was the historical movement which led Norse explorers, traders and warriors, the latter known in modern scholarship as Vikings, to sail most of the North Atlantic, reaching south as far as North Africa and east as far as Russia, and through the Mediterranean as far as Constantinople and the Middle East, acting as looters, traders, colonists and mercenaries.