Finisterre & Estaca de Bares: the end of the land

Hello people!

Another trip, and once again we travel along the north-west of the Spanish coast. Again in the region of Galicia, we enjoy a rugged, different and special coast, with many places to discover. And this time we visit two important places, which have been marking a point for centuries, a point that was not crossed for a long time. We arrive at two points, two lighthouses, and the place where the land ends...

Finisterre

Finisterre means in Latin (the end -finis- of the lands -terre-), very easily in Spanish (el fin de las tierras). So this is the end of the land, literally. And so it was when the Romans arrived here, it was the end of the road beyond only the Atlantic Ocean and another unknown world, many legends and a wild landscape that impresses.

Now in that last place in the world, there is a great lighthouse, when the ocean was sailed, and now a place of passage for countless ships, fishing boats and merchant ships. And from there to the pointed rocks that emerge from the water as if it were a threat or rather a warning of how dangerous the waves and currents are here. But on a calm day, those views of those intense and impressive natural landscapes relax us and make us feel the power and beauty of nature in a very vivid and real way.

In that nearby area, nature has been invaded by modern, aggressive devices that spoil the landscape and also KILL many animals; native birds are dying. In another part of Spain, the last bird of a specific species of vulture died, a shame. I don't like, because it is becoming clear that they do more harm than good, no matter how much the system sold to interests says otherwise. That is my opinion.

And curiously, despite everything, there are the horses, those are semi-wild horses, not letting themselves be overwhelmed by technological masses and claiming what is theirs, their land. Beautiful horses.

Estaca de Bares

And another extraordinary place with a bucolic, nostalgic air or one that gives you that Galician "morriña" (homesickness) is a fishing village, there are many, and from them we enjoy more views of that wild and natural Atlantic coast, from above and also from close up, from one of those colorful fishing boats.

From there we arrive at a special point, it is the northernmost point of Spain, where the Atlantic Ocean and the northern Cantabrian Sea meet, as the sign explains. A unique tourist place of incredible natural beauty.

And again a new lighthouse, which does not shine on a beautiful serene and sunny afternoon but which shows us the way with its presence, to the furthest north that we can go...

We get closer and closer, from the lighthouse to the last rocks, carefully, and we feel the fresh wind and the sound of that rough but calm sea, although here it is never really completely calm. We feel that natural or supernatural force that incessantly hits those stone walls, cliffs defined over time by the sea water that can overcome everything.

A different coast, unique, special, enchanting, strong, wild and full of natural life. An impressive natural landscape that truly takes us to the end of the land, yes, we have arrived to the end of the world.

Finisterre & Estaca de Bares, Galicia, Spain🇪🇸❤️Europe

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