Participating (in order of appearance):

  • Herminia Pernas, the official chronicler of Burela, who provides us with an ethnographic and historical explanation of Cabo Burela.

  • Aurelia Balseiro, Director of the Provincial Museum of Lugo, where the Burela torques is exhibited, and an expert in ancient goldsmithing, who provides us with interesting information about this pre-Roman jewel and our hillforts.

To learn more…

  • San Cibrao is the town on the other side of the cape (to the west)

  • “Vento do cabo, á noite quedado.” This expression of ours doesn’t have a literal or exact translation. It refers to the fact that when the wind arrives in Burela from the Cape (from the northwest) during the day, it calms down at night.

  • A Vila do Medio is one of the oldest neighborhoods in Burela (you can check its location on the map of the guided route or the paper street plan of Burela).

  • Lámparo is the word we use here to refer to what is known in English as “limpets”, whose scientific name is patella vulgata. It is a marine univalve mollusk of the gastropod class, with a conical shell, which lives attached to the rocks along the coast (definition by the Royal Galician Academy).

  • “Arracadas are earrings or ear ornaments with various morphologies and small size, with the most typical being those with a curved shape like those from Bretoña, labyrinthine like the ones from Burela, or with triangular appendages like the exceptional Suegos earrings.”

    Balseiro García, Aurelia. “A Colección de Ourivería Antiga” in A Colección de Ourivería Antiga do Museo Provincial de Lugo, Balseiro García, Aurelia (Ed.), 2018. Lugo: Deputación de Lugo. MPL. p. 28.

  • The Burela torques and the arracada are on display in Room 8 of the Provincial Museum of Lugo. Located on the first floor of the museum, in the upper cloister of the former San Francisco convent, it showcases 53 more pieces of ancient goldsmithing.