El Rapigueiro (La Puela d'Allande or Ayande)
Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 7:11 pm
http://www.elrapigueiro.com/inicio_ast.html
The people of Rapigueiro in my own county of Allande have finally launched a web site (click on the link above).
Allande is a county of Western Asturias, often overlooked by visitors because of its difficult mountain terrain, Yorkshire-like moors and distance from the coast. But it is a treasure trove for ethnomusicologists.
Isolation from the rest of Asturias has preserved local culture, food, customs, languages (both West Asturian spoken in the 'Palo p'acó' and the Galician variant spoken in 'Palo p'al.ló'), impressive Iron Age Celtic hillforts and the ancient megaliths of the Carondio mountains.
Send them mail--they love to hear from family in the Americas since most county people have cousins in the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Florida, New Jersey and New York. Emigres are known, incidentally, as 'americanos'.
Bustantigo: this hamlet opposite the Freita (a Roman-era strip mining operation) is past the village of El Rebol.lu and beyond L'Altu la Marta.
The Mosqueiru de Fonterroxa and the Picu Panchón (1,411m or 4,629 ft) are the highest mountains in County Allande. There's a wind farm up at the summit now.
Mosqueiru de Fonterroxa, the view is from the Celtic hillfort and later Roman-occupied castro de San L.luis or San Chuis, above the village of Samartin de Beduleu.
San L.luis or San Chuis
San L.luis or San Chuis
The people of Rapigueiro in my own county of Allande have finally launched a web site (click on the link above).
Allande is a county of Western Asturias, often overlooked by visitors because of its difficult mountain terrain, Yorkshire-like moors and distance from the coast. But it is a treasure trove for ethnomusicologists.
Isolation from the rest of Asturias has preserved local culture, food, customs, languages (both West Asturian spoken in the 'Palo p'acó' and the Galician variant spoken in 'Palo p'al.ló'), impressive Iron Age Celtic hillforts and the ancient megaliths of the Carondio mountains.
Send them mail--they love to hear from family in the Americas since most county people have cousins in the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Florida, New Jersey and New York. Emigres are known, incidentally, as 'americanos'.
Bustantigo: this hamlet opposite the Freita (a Roman-era strip mining operation) is past the village of El Rebol.lu and beyond L'Altu la Marta.
The Mosqueiru de Fonterroxa and the Picu Panchón (1,411m or 4,629 ft) are the highest mountains in County Allande. There's a wind farm up at the summit now.
Mosqueiru de Fonterroxa, the view is from the Celtic hillfort and later Roman-occupied castro de San L.luis or San Chuis, above the village of Samartin de Beduleu.
San L.luis or San Chuis
San L.luis or San Chuis