Thank you for watching! If you would like to see more of Alex, you can find a playlist of her adventures in Spain 🇪🇸 here: ua-cam.com/play/PLCcFQjIUB6D2V2wMAXouIpzjesXVySn9e.html and in Italy 🇮🇹 here! ua-cam.com/play/PLCcFQjIUB6D1Ni27LQEV6Mop0818YHHp_.html
I was fortunate to live in Galicia for 3 years as a young man. I cried my eyes out watching this. Being a celt from Cornwall I genuinely felt the love. Often being called brother or neighbour. The best people, the best food. I'm going back for good, when I retire. =GALIZA CALIDADE=
I'm sick of the Costa del sol it gets worse and worse. I live in the Cadiz province, green and lovely. Soon to be destroyed by greedy pigs smothering us with solar parks. I am thinking to go to Gallicia.
@@deborahgonzalezknight168 Do it Deborah. Things in Andalucia are going to get worse. La Junta blindly throws money at Sevilla y Malaga, whilst the other provinces are left in disrepair. I find there isn't the political corruption at a local level in Galicia, like in Andalucia. The amenities and standard of living is way ahead.
As an Indian, I don't know how much I love this country. I'm obsessed with Spain , their culture, their traditions. Amazing food and people.❤❤ Maybe in future I'm visiting this beautiful land and feel it ❤❤❤❤
I am from Galicia. And i miss my celtic land but I am visit every year to see my family. And always enjoy food, the clean air ,the forest and rivers, beaches and lovely towns..Galicia is unique.
Having lived in Spain now for 20 years I have a great feeling of love.So rich in its cultures and history.I have yet to visit Galicia and feel propelled to do so very soon after this wonderful film. Thank you.
I grew up in America, a descendant of Gallegos. A few years ago I tested my DNA which showed that it comes from northern Spain and Ireland. Knowing that I am also a descendant of the celts gives me a wonderful sense of identity. I have also become a Spanish citizen by descent and will be moving to Spain permanently soon.
Can't help but tear up every time I see Santiago De Compostela. Hiking across the North of Spain was life changing. Visited a number pilgrims friends I met on the Camino in their home countries last summer.
OMG, Percebes looked delicious... I couldn't helped to shed a tear for these helpless souls. I was so taken by the pilgrimage and the deep understanding of "finding what one was looking for" I must do this.
The ending was sublime, thank you for this posting. I'm not Catholic but I was brought to tears empathizing with the sense of accomplishment of the Pilgrims. I had the good fortune to live in Spain for several years at the end of the Franco regime and I am glad you highlighted one of the Paradores Nacionales, IloveAlex.
Never went looking for this but algorithms worked their magic and brought us together. I've developed a love of Flamenco music over the last few years and watch many brilliant Spanish musicians on here. I find the music fits my mood and emotions in these troubled times. I am too a Celt and am familiar with the close pre historical connection between the Iberian Peninsula an the NW coast of Europe. A Bronze Age copper mine, only discovered in the 1980s, on the NW coast of Wales has relinquished the human remains of miners from the Iberian Peninsula from 3000/3500 years ago.. Also the headquarters of the Druid civilisation in Britain was on the island of Anglesey near to where this massive copper mine was located. These people travelling up the West Coast of Europe brought metal working to the British Isles in terms of Copper, Tin, Silver, Gold and ofcourse Bronze. I will watch the rest of your series as I absolutely loved this programme. You've really found your calling which is, what you've been looking for. Absolutely nailed it..
This is a great channel. You are an amazing host. Just enough history to captivate the mind, and enough heart to invest us in wanting to experience the areas and her people ourselves. I had planned to go to Northern Spain the year that Covid hit the planet. One day soon I hope. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for the way you introduce Spain to thd world. Im from almost the other corner, from the Pirinees, Anso valley. But have travelled and lived all along Spain. From deserts to perpetual snow and glaziers, endless forests, steppes ....Its incedible how diverse and diferent it is just crossing one of the many mountain ranges here are.
Alex you're an amazing host and person, I was brought to tears by your reaction to the man at the end of his camino journey - he found what he was looking for. Amazing and thank you.
Thank you for this wonderful video. I am of Spanish ancestry, primarily Galician from Lugo. I wish more would have been discussed including O’bregaoin and the ancient Lugo walls.
Ahh.. Galicia! It is a magical place. Truly the best region in Spain for me (outside of the weather). Seeing this video made me miss life there so so badly! She isn't wrong about the experience of seeing the Botafumeiro in action. I have attended mass there many times and the apprehension of seeing such a haevy object wing above your head especially if you're sitting/standing in the transept never disappeared for me.
@@juli8vdberg562 it is only ever sure on certain holy days but it actually is used more often than that as it can be requested by pilgrims. So during the height of the pilgrimage season, there's a good chance you'll see it in action.
Having walked The Camino in 2018..the city is indeed beautiful and majestic. The quality of life is very good..I miss my time in Espana..now in Florida..RH
Thank you for the lovely and compelling documentary. Saludos a todas las familias q perdieron a sus seres queridos durante la guerra civil. Y un abrazo muy fuerte a toda Galicia y a toda España!
im sure alex loves spain due to the good food like her background from sardegna where food is part of life to pass happiness and enjoy spain must have good food from tapas to seafood thanks for having shown us this
TRACKS, una pena que en la filmación de Santiago no mostraras la gloria de la fachada de la catedral en la Plaza del Obradoiro. Una de las más hermosas del mundo. Gracias de todas formas por mostrar algo de mi pequeño y hermosos país: Galicia.
Alex, great documentary. I loved the lady fishing for percebes. My grandma’s family was a Sephardic Jew who migrated to Greece from Spain when the Catholic kings ( los Reyes católicos) took over Spain and kicked out the last Moorish kings ( los árabes de Granada). I came to Spain from Norway six years ago as I wanted to research about the wonders of the Arabs what they have brought to Southern Europe ( Spain, Portugal, Italy, Malta and even France) and their legacy of tolerance toward the Jews. Under the Arabs the Jews of Spain thrived and got to serve in the king’s court and become advisors and great scientists ( Maimonides) along with the brilliant Arab scientists from the Near East who revolutionized mathematics, science, medicine, agriculture, architecture ( see the wonders of their superb and refined architecture like the Alhambra ( in Granada)or the Alcazar in Seville or la Mezquita de Córdoba. I learned that the names Toledo and Madrid were named by the Arabs, so were Granada, Córdoba, Almería and many others. We are so ignorant in Europe and the West about the brilliant civilizations of the East and the Near East. We think we created everything, where in reality we owe the Egyptians, the Phoenicians, the Persians, the Chinese and the Arabs so much. They even revolutionized our dietary and hygiene habits, rice, coffee, spinach, citrus almonds, pistachio, pasta, pizza, artichoke, spices brought from India and China and the list is long... I discovered so much through my brilliant Spanish teachers from the University of Córdoba, Madrid and Salamanca ( prof Antonio Manuel Rodriguez Ramos and Pedro Martinez’s Montavez etc..) learning all what I learned from them was a revelation and the presence of thousands of words from Arabic in Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian but specifically Sicilian and Maltese is simply extraordinary, not to mention the very essence of flamenco which is an Arabic word ( Falahcom) referring to ‘farmer or person connected with the land, gazpacho is an Arabic dish ( from Gabz : bread soup) they also introduced the guitar to Spain and the world from their word ‘alkithara’. What I ended up liking in Spain is the history, the colors, the flavors and the unparalleled architecture of los árabes. It’s simply exquisite. I owe it to my grandma who fed that curiosity and compelled me to go there. I also discovered that after seven hundred years of Arabic dominance in Spain, Islam was not imposed. The Christians and Jews were given a choice to keep their religions,but they had to pay an annual tax. Hence a Christian Spain after 700 years ..They had quite a difference attitude from the Spanish, English, French, Portuguese, Dutch, Belgian, German colonizers and settlers who were practically murderers and genocidal in the Americas, Africa and Asia. I think it’s about time we look at history differently.
@@whatelse1222 if you really knew the inns and outs of the Arab empire at the time they invaded the Iberian peninsula and Southern Europe you would have known and understood that the Arab empire was a mix of different cultures, races and religions. The Omeyas of Syria were Levantine people and by definition Mediterranean like the Lebanese, the Greeks, etc.. on the other hand, you have Arabs who are from Africa such as Sudan..
@@stone0234 the Jews sided with the Arabs because they were persecuted in Iberia by the Romans and the Visigoths and locked up in ghettos for centuries . Ever heard of the first Jewish ghettos in Rome or Venice ? the list goes on. The Spanish weren’t the worst colonizers in the Americas? Try that with the Quechua people and other millennial indigenous communities in the Andes and in Central America.. try to ask the Mayas of Guatemala who have been persecuted, murdered and raped by the Spanish colonizers and still are by their descendants.. the situation isn’t much better in Mexico where I studied for a year at the Universidad de las Americas in Puebla.. it’s pathetic to see how the natives are treated and what sway they hold ? I have to say that the most beautiful and dignified people I met in Latin America were the Natives, the indigenous I’ve encountered during my three year trip in Latin America . They aren’t false and criminals. I’m proud that I got to meet Rigoberta Menchu, the Nobel Prize laureate when we came with our Norwegian delegation to her country.
Why the English say "Camino" like in Spanish? The same as "chorizo"? We in Portuguese "translate" the names. So, "camino" becomes "caminho" and "chorizo" becomes "chouriço".
@@diogorodrigues747 I don't know, but in Spain we do something similar with English words, and take them as in English, without "translation". Some words would be parking, iceberg, sidecar (although we considerably change the pronunciation when spoken in Spanish)
The "Botta Fumerro" with franckincense in the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostella handled by those 8 monks to swing at a speed of 60 km/h is unique in the Christian World...the delight of all pilgrims arriving from the 800 Miles of "Camino"...
@@unclerubo Everyone follows this path when becomes adolescent takes science as more important than GOD...and when he gets old opens the spiritual eyes and returns ...
@@stefanpaul842 I have to respectfully disagree. I'm 37 now and religion stopped making any sense to me when I was 11. Believe in whatever you think is right, though, as long as you're not hurting anyone :)
This episode really illustrates that we need more women hosting travel documentaries. I watch a lot of travel series, usually hosted by men, and they never seem to present dark parts of history and death with the respect and grace that Alex exhibited here.
we are all passing by in life your correct all stressed to capture part of ours lives what are not enough to capture all places....buildings stay for 100 years very amazing you can show such beautiful places and people to us thanks alex😊😊❤❤
Galicia produces strong man and woman in Spain, since always. Straight and kind. With admirable truth in their words. Quallities that we need more and more. Sorry for my bad english. Cheers
I have always said, Spain is more northern than southern, the southern part of Spain is just not to Spain to me, even the people are different in customs, I definitely prefer the North, especially Galicia and Asturias and Castilla.
Viva el Reyno de España ,Madre Patria de AMERICA 12 de octubre 1492. Nuevo Mundo. El Pais con el legado Historico ,Religioso Cultural y Militar mas grandioso en la Historia de la Humanidad.
España Loveeeeeee 😊os esperamos a todos, merece la pena visitarno, tenemos de todo 😊, acuérdate de lo que dicen, quien nos visitan repetin, se quedan con las ganas 😊
I just discovered your video and I love it. I’m from Spain and I love to watch videos about Spain from the US, with out the politics, all do I learn from the comments on here. Please is pulpo a la gallega, not galega 😊
why do we live in europe where there is so much not none to others from other european countries it should be a place where we can live and move work and enjoy with traveling with such video you see things what is unknown thanks to have shown us such a beauty place and people spain even if they had a difficult past
Thank you so doing and sharing such beautiful and informative video! Your voice is very soothing to listen to and you’re a beautiful woman! Thanks especially for pointing out the mass graves - important for younger generation to learn the atrocities of Franco’s fascism and evil regime.
don't forget the Genocide of the Republica,massacres and extermination. Franco limpio España de las Ordas de Comunistas ateas y genocidas que buscaban la destruccion de España el pais con el legado historico mas hermoso y Grandioso del Planeta.. Viva España Madre Patria de AMERICA 12 octubre 1492..Nuevo Mundo..
It is hard to figure out whether they are mass graves of war victims or atrocities or political abuses. It is just fair that relatives can demand unearthing the remains and access to the Estate's Archives so that every victim can be accounted for.
I totally agree, but you still need more information about the national reality of Spain. The law that deals with the issue is a law promoted from the extreme left in such a way that it only recognizes the dead of one of the sides. Practical example: In one of the towns where they found a mass grave, they prepared to remove the remains and when they realized that they were from the other side, they directly left everything as it was, the ground raised, etc... and left. Many of these people under the pretense of locating relatives, the only thing they are looking for is revenge and economic aid linked to this type of action, so you have an army of unemployed archaeologists eager to collect money from the government and obviously all affiliated with parties or far-left associations.
In Spain you notice history everywhere, not only in Galicia, and there is no country in the world the size of Spain that has such a variety of climate and landscapes. So galicia is not different, every comunity is different and for that Spain is something else. You have not known anything. And I remind the Galician man that there are dolmens in other parts of Spain in Antequera and is much bigger.
@@galaezia1 envía lo dudo he vivido en Galicia mucho tiempo quizás eres tú la que no has salido de allí. Lo que intentaba aclarar es que España es hermoso y diverso y por supuesto rectificar que el dolmen más grande está en Málaga. Sal un poco viaja no seas tan nacionalista.
@@CarmenRodriguez-ze2xg Porque he viajado mucho, y vivido en un país precioso llamado Inglaterra, aprecio al que considero que es mi país, Galicia. Y muy bien, tú quédate con el dolmen más grande que yo me quedo con que Galicia tiene su idioma propio. Todos los países del mundo tienen su belleza. Dar consejos, en plan de viaja más, puede considerarse un poco de prepotencia. Saludos.
@@galaezia1 prepotencia la tuya en creer que galicia es lo mejor, lo has dicho tú no yo. Y yo también he vivido en Inglaterra siete años y precisamente no es el pais más bonito...
@@CarmenRodriguez-ze2xg Relee mis comentarios y dime dónde yo escribí que Galicia es lo mejor, los gallegos solemos ser humildes. No hay ningún sitio mejor que otro. Para mi, Inglaterra es un país precioso, y al decir esto, hay que entender que es una apreciación subjetiva. Ya sabes lo que a uno le gusta puede ser que a otro no le guste.
Propaganda from the left. Franco fought Communist from taking over the Country & he gave the Crown back to the Spanish Royal Family when he died. Spain did economically well during his reign comparing to many countries at the time.
@@SW-fi5pc George Washington killed his own people, name a leader of war who got to power who hasn’t? If you’re a leftist, then Stalin, Mao, Fidel, Che etc.
@@IblewuponyourfaceIII No distingues legalidad de legitimidad, etica de moral, y los artículos sociales de la constitución te parecen castrochavismo del duro... Que suerte teneis la calaña reaccionaria que de cinismo agudo no se muere nadie
Percebes are vastly overrated. Leave the poor things alone on their rocks. If you want something really lush, try navalhas or razor clams. Steamed with a little melted butter for dipping...yum. Deep umami flavour.
Simply breathtaking images and amazing pictures. You are a wonderful reporter. Grazie mille
Thank you for watching! If you would like to see more of Alex, you can find a playlist of her adventures in Spain 🇪🇸 here: ua-cam.com/play/PLCcFQjIUB6D2V2wMAXouIpzjesXVySn9e.html
and in Italy 🇮🇹 here!
ua-cam.com/play/PLCcFQjIUB6D1Ni27LQEV6Mop0818YHHp_.html
I was fortunate to live in Galicia for 3 years as a young man. I cried my eyes out watching this. Being a celt from Cornwall I genuinely felt the love. Often being called brother or neighbour. The best people, the best food. I'm going back for good, when I retire. =GALIZA CALIDADE=
I lived there too and I feel quite sentimental watching this.
Great plan for your retirement ! ❤️
I'm sick of the Costa del sol it gets worse and worse. I live in the Cadiz province, green and lovely. Soon to be destroyed by greedy pigs smothering us with solar parks. I am thinking to go to Gallicia.
@@deborahgonzalezknight168 very wet and cold in the in the winter, but very beautiful, you won’t be disappointed.
@@deborahgonzalezknight168 Do it Deborah. Things in Andalucia are going to get worse. La Junta blindly throws money at Sevilla y Malaga, whilst the other provinces are left in disrepair. I find there isn't the political corruption at a local level in Galicia, like in Andalucia. The amenities and standard of living is way ahead.
As an Indian, I don't know how much I love this country. I'm obsessed with Spain , their culture, their traditions. Amazing food and people.❤❤
Maybe in future I'm visiting this beautiful land and feel it ❤❤❤❤
Beautiful, amazing tv presenter. Genuine and direct. No fake. Truthfull.
I am from Galicia. And i miss my celtic land but I am visit every year to see my family. And always enjoy food, the clean air ,the forest and rivers, beaches and lovely towns..Galicia is unique.
Many Celts from Galacia went to Wales and Brittany
Having lived in Spain now for 20 years I have a great feeling of love.So rich in its cultures and history.I have yet to visit Galicia and feel propelled to do so very soon after this wonderful film. Thank you.
Lived there two years. First child born there. It's an amazing unknown part of Spain.
Being from Santiago myself, I loved the delicate, respectful and charming way to describe my city and Galicia.
I grew up in America, a descendant of Gallegos. A few years ago I tested my DNA which showed that it comes from northern Spain and Ireland. Knowing that I am also a descendant of the celts gives me a wonderful sense of identity. I have also become a Spanish citizen by descent and will be moving to Spain permanently soon.
I love Spain. It's such a beautiful country ❤️
I love Galicia.
@@placidobaamonde6374 You dont know Spain Spain is beautiful
Try Italy !!!
What a sublime finale to a remarkable series on Spain. I am now officially obsessed with Spain!
Can't help but tear up every time I see Santiago De Compostela. Hiking across the North of Spain was life changing. Visited a number pilgrims friends I met on the Camino in their home countries last summer.
Never tire of watching Alex - she is totally amazing and authentic. Viva Espagna!
A lovely country to explore. I’ve been there 6 times and haven’t even scratched the surface.
OMG, Percebes looked delicious... I couldn't helped to shed a tear for these helpless souls. I was so taken by the pilgrimage and the deep understanding of "finding what one was looking for" I must do this.
Glorious Oh Glorious series! I love Spain even more.Thank you.
Great program ! The host was so charming - genuinely enjoying the people she met along the way.
The ending was sublime, thank you for this posting. I'm not Catholic but I was brought to tears empathizing with the sense of accomplishment of the Pilgrims. I had the good fortune to live in Spain for several years at the end of the Franco regime and I am glad you highlighted one of the Paradores Nacionales, IloveAlex.
Never went looking for this but algorithms worked their magic and brought us together.
I've developed a love of Flamenco music over the last few years and watch many brilliant Spanish musicians on here. I find the music fits my mood and emotions in these troubled times.
I am too a Celt and am familiar with the close pre historical connection between the Iberian Peninsula an the NW coast of Europe. A Bronze Age copper mine, only discovered in the 1980s, on the NW coast of Wales has relinquished the human remains of miners from the Iberian Peninsula from 3000/3500 years ago..
Also the headquarters of the Druid civilisation in Britain was on the island of Anglesey near to where this massive copper mine was located.
These people travelling up the West Coast of Europe brought metal working to the British Isles in terms of Copper, Tin, Silver, Gold and ofcourse Bronze.
I will watch the rest of your series as I absolutely loved this programme. You've really found your calling which is, what you've been looking for. Absolutely nailed it..
I’m so happy to find this series,I’m a fan of Alex from her hotel inspector show . 💐
This is a great channel. You are an amazing host. Just enough history to captivate the mind, and enough heart to invest us in wanting to experience the areas and her people ourselves. I had planned to go to Northern Spain the year that Covid hit the planet. One day soon I hope. Thanks for sharing.
Un canto a Galicia hey, minha terra nai. Teno morrina! Teno saudade!
Thanks for the way you introduce Spain to thd world.
Im from almost the other corner, from the Pirinees, Anso valley. But have travelled and lived all along Spain. From deserts to perpetual snow and glaziers, endless forests, steppes ....Its incedible how diverse and diferent it is just crossing one of the many mountain ranges here are.
Another fantastic and enlightening journey. Enjoyed series very much. Thank you Alex xx
Alex is fantastic as always in describing the beautiful places she visits. Historically very good too.
This was SPECTACULAR! Thank you!
Love all your episodes. Especially love your clothing. Such great fashions!
Alex you're an amazing host and person, I was brought to tears by your reaction to the man at the end of his camino journey - he found what he was looking for. Amazing and thank you.
Thank you for watching! Glad you enjoyed. 😊
Amazing! Can't thank you enough! Fabulous! :) Greetings from Kochi
Thank you for this wonderful video. I am of Spanish ancestry, primarily Galician from Lugo. I wish more would have been discussed including O’bregaoin and the ancient Lugo walls.
so wonderfully presented was hooked start to finish and as you said ended JUST IN THE RIGHT PLACE !
Ahh.. Galicia! It is a magical place. Truly the best region in Spain for me (outside of the weather). Seeing this video made me miss life there so so badly! She isn't wrong about the experience of seeing the Botafumeiro in action. I have attended mass there many times and the apprehension of seeing such a haevy object wing above your head especially if you're sitting/standing in the transept never disappeared for me.
Is that botafumerio performed every day or only on Sundays or certain days?
@@juli8vdberg562 it is only ever sure on certain holy days but it actually is used more often than that as it can be requested by pilgrims. So during the height of the pilgrimage season, there's a good chance you'll see it in action.
@@pul0y thank you so much for the useful information
Having walked The Camino in 2018..the city is indeed beautiful and majestic. The quality of life is very good..I miss my time in Espana..now in Florida..RH
I just love how she just spoke Italian with the spanish priest
latins xd
In her comments at times she said "la Costa del Morte instead of "la Costa de la Muerte" in Spanish
@@yxnone9771 To be fair, in Galician, it is called "A Costa da Morte" so I can understand the mixup :)
We understand each other :) Spanish and Italian are very close languages. Latin Brotherhood!
@paseante sin rumbo fijo jajajajajajaaj que bueno! Menuda cosa más burra acabas de decir
I'm 3 days away from Santiago and I'm in ore of the whole experience ... Truly magical ...
Thank you for the lovely and compelling documentary. Saludos a todas las familias q perdieron a sus seres queridos durante la guerra civil. Y un abrazo muy fuerte a toda Galicia y a toda España!
Love your programme always thanks for this awesome programme💜
Best wishes from London
I'm a 'big fan' of your other 'shows', so was delighted to find you here ... traveling in Spain. 🥰
very amazing..well down alex..continue with lovely filming and discoveries of such lovely places ❤
What a pleasure watching your travel and gathering information , thank you for sharing ❤
Great documentary. Thanks
Absolutely beautiful country
Beautiful documentary... it made me long for more
im sure alex loves spain due to the good food like her background from sardegna
where food is part of life to pass happiness and enjoy
spain must have good food from tapas to seafood
thanks for having shown us this
I ENJOYED THIS BEAUTIFUL SERIES TO SPAIN 'S VACATION LOCATION'S ALONG THE COAST. THANK YOU ALEX, YOU ARE AWSUM.
Stunning and oh my is Santiago being quite an experience
TRACKS, una pena que en la filmación de Santiago no mostraras la gloria de la fachada de la catedral en la Plaza del Obradoiro. Una de las más hermosas del mundo. Gracias de todas formas por mostrar algo de mi pequeño y hermosos país: Galicia.
I found this episode strangely moving and inspirational.
Great journey of adventure, truth, healing, and faith. 🙏
Alex, great documentary. I loved the lady fishing for percebes. My grandma’s family was a Sephardic Jew who migrated to Greece from Spain when the Catholic kings ( los Reyes católicos) took over Spain and kicked out the last Moorish kings ( los árabes de Granada). I came to Spain from Norway six years ago as I wanted to research about the wonders of the Arabs what they have brought to Southern Europe ( Spain, Portugal, Italy, Malta and even France) and their legacy of tolerance toward the Jews. Under the Arabs the Jews of Spain thrived and got to serve in the king’s court and become advisors and great scientists ( Maimonides) along with the brilliant Arab scientists from the Near East who revolutionized mathematics, science, medicine, agriculture, architecture ( see the wonders of their superb and refined architecture like the Alhambra ( in Granada)or the Alcazar in Seville or la Mezquita de Córdoba. I learned that the names Toledo and Madrid were named by the Arabs, so were Granada, Córdoba, Almería and many others. We are so ignorant in Europe and the West about the brilliant civilizations of the East and the Near East. We think we created everything, where in reality we owe the Egyptians, the Phoenicians, the Persians, the Chinese and the Arabs so much. They even revolutionized our dietary and hygiene habits, rice, coffee, spinach, citrus almonds, pistachio, pasta, pizza, artichoke, spices brought from India and China and the list is long... I discovered so much through my brilliant Spanish teachers from the University of Córdoba, Madrid and Salamanca ( prof Antonio Manuel Rodriguez Ramos and Pedro Martinez’s Montavez etc..) learning all what I learned from them was a revelation and the presence of thousands of words from Arabic in Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian but specifically Sicilian and Maltese is simply extraordinary, not to mention the very essence of flamenco which is an Arabic word ( Falahcom) referring to ‘farmer or person connected with the land, gazpacho is an Arabic dish ( from Gabz : bread soup) they also introduced the guitar to Spain and the world from their word ‘alkithara’.
What I ended up liking in Spain is the history, the colors, the flavors and the unparalleled architecture of los árabes. It’s simply exquisite. I owe it to my grandma who fed that curiosity and compelled me to go there. I also discovered that after seven hundred years of Arabic dominance in Spain, Islam was not imposed. The Christians and Jews were given a choice to keep their religions,but they had to pay an annual tax. Hence a Christian Spain after 700 years ..They had quite a difference attitude from the Spanish, English, French, Portuguese, Dutch, Belgian, German colonizers and settlers who were practically murderers and genocidal in the Americas, Africa and Asia. I think it’s about time we look at history differently.
Most were North African Berbers and not Arabs as they later found out through DNA testing.
@@whatelse1222 . Well as far as I know the Omeyas Calyphate or Umayyads came from Damascus.
@@cbs5357 I didn’t say all but most came from North Africa.
@@whatelse1222 if you really knew the inns and outs of the Arab empire at the time they invaded the Iberian peninsula and Southern Europe you would have known and understood that the Arab empire was a mix of different cultures, races and religions. The Omeyas of Syria were Levantine people and by definition Mediterranean like the Lebanese, the Greeks, etc.. on the other hand, you have Arabs who are from Africa such as Sudan..
@@stone0234 the Jews sided with the Arabs because they were persecuted in Iberia by the Romans and the Visigoths and locked up in ghettos for centuries . Ever heard of the first Jewish ghettos in Rome or Venice ? the list goes on. The Spanish weren’t the worst colonizers in the Americas? Try that with the Quechua people and other millennial indigenous communities in the Andes and in Central America.. try to ask the Mayas of Guatemala who have been persecuted, murdered and raped by the Spanish colonizers and still are by their descendants.. the situation isn’t much better in Mexico where I studied for a year at the Universidad de las Americas in Puebla.. it’s pathetic to see how the natives are treated and what sway they hold ? I have to say that the most beautiful and dignified people I met in Latin America were the Natives, the indigenous I’ve encountered during my three year trip in Latin America . They aren’t false and criminals. I’m proud that I got to meet Rigoberta Menchu, the Nobel Prize laureate when we came with our Norwegian delegation to her country.
Love my place if you go to the rias baixas region the climate is warmer and milder also in winter more meditteranean than the north
Thank you for sharing this, NC USA 🇺🇸
Walked The Camino is 2018..an interesting journey..
I walked in 2024 ...at 65 ,( age)
@@asturias8386 we are only in 2021 dude
Why the English say "Camino" like in Spanish? The same as "chorizo"?
We in Portuguese "translate" the names. So, "camino" becomes "caminho" and "chorizo" becomes "chouriço".
@@diogorodrigues747 I don't know, but in Spain we do something similar with English words, and take them as in English, without "translation". Some words would be parking, iceberg, sidecar (although we considerably change the pronunciation when spoken in Spanish)
I’m walking in two weeks for the first time ♥️
The "Botta Fumerro" with franckincense in the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostella handled by those 8 monks to swing at a speed of 60 km/h is unique in the Christian World...the delight of all pilgrims arriving from the 800 Miles of "Camino"...
It is written "Botafumeiro". In Galician, it means something like "smoke caster" :)
@@unclerubo Yes, every Church have them, this is part of our Christian Tradition at every Holy Mass.
@@stefanpaul842 I know, I was raised as a Catholic even though I abandoned religion long ago :D
@@unclerubo Everyone follows this path when becomes adolescent takes science as more important than GOD...and when he gets old opens the spiritual eyes and returns ...
@@stefanpaul842 I have to respectfully disagree. I'm 37 now and religion stopped making any sense to me when I was 11.
Believe in whatever you think is right, though, as long as you're not hurting anyone :)
This episode really illustrates that we need more women hosting travel documentaries. I watch a lot of travel series, usually hosted by men, and they never seem to present dark parts of history and death with the respect and grace that Alex exhibited here.
Galicia Calidade!💙
we are all passing by in life your correct all stressed to capture part of ours lives what are not enough to capture all places....buildings stay for 100 years
very amazing you can show such beautiful places and people to us
thanks alex😊😊❤❤
amazing words from the local priest❤❤
I want to visit ! 💜💕❤️ So much beauty
just wow
Love Spain
Galicia. Home of my ancestors.
My family is from galicia, A coruna. my mum from Lugo. Its beautiful.
Hi :) Loved the video. Galicia is extraordinary, lived there, inland near Lugo. Costa da Morte means "the death coast"- not "coast of the dead". ;)
Galicia produces strong man and woman in Spain, since always. Straight and kind. With admirable truth in their words. Quallities that we need more and more. Sorry for my bad english. Cheers
Damn, I'm from Colombia.....These are my ancestor's.....No WONDER!!!....
Fear is the lie you tell yourself
I have always said, Spain is more northern than southern, the southern part of Spain is just not to Spain to me, even the people are different in customs, I definitely prefer the North, especially Galicia and Asturias and Castilla.
Interesting....
If you do not consider the south as part of Spain, I am afraid you have not understood anything
GALLAECIA, Septimania, Hispania
@@sedondevives2169 the celtic are diferent than us 🗡
40:12 Anthony Hopkins as a spaniard priest lol
Ah, Galicia! ¡Me encanta!
Bravo ..... ! Mercy to humanity Gypsy Trail
That was very enjoyable thanks.😹
I lived in Galicia as a kid. My idea of heaven. We lived in A Coruña. My paternal ancestors are all buried there. My favorite place on earth.
Viva el Reyno de España ,Madre Patria de AMERICA 12 de octubre 1492.
Nuevo Mundo.
El Pais con el legado Historico ,Religioso
Cultural y Militar mas grandioso en la Historia de la Humanidad.
Spain and Italy have so much in common
Romanized
Only latin languge nothing else we are iberian
España Loveeeeeee 😊os esperamos a todos, merece la pena visitarno, tenemos de todo 😊, acuérdate de lo que dicen, quien nos visitan repetin, se quedan con las ganas 😊
It is a match that Alex ends her Spanish series in Santiago de Compostela, a town in where the month-long marathon ends.
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I just discovered your video and I love it. I’m from Spain and I love to watch videos about Spain from the US, with out the politics, all do I learn from the comments on here. Please is pulpo a la gallega, not galega 😊
What is this life if full of care, that we don't have time to stand and stare......
There is nowhere in Spain that I love more than Galicia.
I used to catch "percebos" - in Portuguese, when I was younger, good eating and never saw them here in US.
Any (contact) details about the druid would be much appreciated.
Did you ever find him? I would like to know as well!
The priest reminds me of the actor who played Anibal in “ the Silence of the lambs”
Yes, I thought the same thing. He resembles Anthony Hopkins.
You can't trick a galician woman's "retranca" (retranca is like a dry irony) 😆
Anyone know which restaurant she ate the pulpo a la gallega in A Coruña?
Portugal e Galiza para sempre !
why do we live in europe where there is so much not none to others from other european countries
it should be a place where we can live and move work and enjoy with traveling
with such video you see things what is unknown
thanks to have shown us such a beauty place and people spain even if they had a difficult past
that almond cake must have been delicious
11:30 "All Fungi are edible. Some fungi are only edible once.”: Terry Pratchett
Greetings to the "gallegos" from Colombia
Thank you so doing and sharing such beautiful and informative video! Your voice is very soothing to listen to and you’re a beautiful woman! Thanks especially for pointing out the mass graves - important for younger generation to learn the atrocities of Franco’s fascism and evil regime.
yes as the republicans did not ejecute anybody , nor did they did mass graves, it was just franco. s side
don't forget the Genocide of the Republica,massacres and extermination.
Franco limpio España de las Ordas de Comunistas ateas y genocidas que buscaban la destruccion de España el pais con el legado historico mas hermoso
y Grandioso del Planeta..
Viva España Madre Patria de AMERICA
12 octubre 1492..Nuevo Mundo..
Not a Coast of Death, but a coast that gives life to people.
Brexiteer who compared EU to ‘badly-run hotel’ struggles to find hotel staff. Oh the irony!
It is hard to figure out whether they are mass graves of war victims or atrocities or political abuses. It is just fair that relatives can demand unearthing the remains and access to the Estate's Archives so that every victim can be accounted for.
I totally agree, but you still need more information about the national reality of Spain.
The law that deals with the issue is a law promoted from the extreme left in such a way that it only recognizes the dead of one of the sides.
Practical example: In one of the towns where they found a mass grave, they prepared to remove the remains and when they realized that they were from the other side, they directly left everything as it was, the ground raised, etc... and left.
Many of these people under the pretense of locating relatives, the only thing they are looking for is revenge and economic aid linked to this type of action, so you have an army of unemployed archaeologists eager to collect money from the government and obviously all affiliated with parties or far-left associations.
In Spain you notice history everywhere, not only in Galicia, and there is no country in the world the size of Spain that has such a variety of climate and landscapes. So galicia is not different, every comunity is different and for that Spain is something else. You have not known anything. And I remind the Galician man that there are dolmens in other parts of Spain in Antequera and is much bigger.
Galicia tiene idioma propio, algo que no teneis en otras comunidades de España, no sé parece un comentario lleno de envidia.
@@galaezia1 envía lo dudo he vivido en Galicia mucho tiempo quizás eres tú la que no has salido de allí. Lo que intentaba aclarar es que España es hermoso y diverso y por supuesto rectificar que el dolmen más grande está en Málaga. Sal un poco viaja no seas tan nacionalista.
@@CarmenRodriguez-ze2xg Porque he viajado mucho, y vivido en un país precioso llamado Inglaterra, aprecio al que considero que es mi país, Galicia. Y muy bien, tú quédate con el dolmen más grande que yo me quedo con que Galicia tiene su idioma propio. Todos los países del mundo tienen su belleza. Dar consejos, en plan de viaja más, puede considerarse un poco de prepotencia. Saludos.
@@galaezia1 prepotencia la tuya en creer que galicia es lo mejor, lo has dicho tú no yo. Y yo también he vivido en Inglaterra siete años y precisamente no es el pais más bonito...
@@CarmenRodriguez-ze2xg Relee mis comentarios y dime dónde yo escribí que Galicia es lo mejor, los gallegos solemos ser humildes. No hay ningún sitio mejor que otro. Para mi, Inglaterra es un país precioso, y al decir esto, hay que entender que es una apreciación subjetiva. Ya sabes lo que a uno le gusta puede ser que a otro no le guste.
u r a amazing person with your feet in your boots😊😊
WOW!!
Who else didn't know about that horrific regime and genocide?
Who else were horrified that we are talking about 1975?
Propaganda from the left. Franco fought Communist from taking over the Country & he gave the Crown back to the Spanish Royal Family when he died. Spain did economically well during his reign comparing to many countries at the time.
@@SW-fi5pc George Washington killed his own people, name a leader of war who got to power who hasn’t? If you’re a leftist, then Stalin, Mao, Fidel, Che etc.
@@IblewuponyourfaceIII No distingues legalidad de legitimidad, etica de moral, y los artículos sociales de la constitución te parecen castrochavismo del duro...
Que suerte teneis la calaña reaccionaria que de cinismo agudo no se muere nadie
@@IblewuponyourfaceIII Franco reinó? Propaganda? Eran de plástico los huesos?
Franco fue un dictador golpista, no tienes ni p. Idea, campeón...
Percebes had been an expensive delicacy quite earlier than 38 years ago.
I've put worst things in my mouth 😂👄 we know what u mean 🤣🤣🤣
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Percebes are vastly overrated. Leave the poor things alone on their rocks. If you want something really lush, try navalhas or razor clams. Steamed with a little melted butter for dipping...yum. Deep umami flavour.