He told us that this land, here next to the Miño, has been very important from the most remote antiquity, that there were already inhabitants around here in Paleolithic times and that there are “Rock carvings.”
He also told us about the “Castros.” I had heard talk of them in my life, but he told us that they were some ancient settlements, which demonstrate that humans already lived there in a sedentary manner for a long time. He told us that there were several across Galicia, but here right next to the Miño, is where you could best see that kind of construction and that there was a Roman necropolis too.
He then told us that the site had also been strategically important for that town, and that “a Gothic king,” yes, one from the famous list of the Gothic kings that they made us study at s
