Camino Photo of the Day: Ancient Ways
The forests of Galicia feel ancient, and humans have trod these forest paths for hundreds of thousands of years1. The routes of some of the paths and roads the Camino follows are far older than the Camino itself. While pilgrims have stamped holloways on the Way, something that can be accomplished in mere centuries, sometimes you see something like this cut through the stony hills and realize that this particular path is far older still.
Date: 26 April 2013
Place: somewhere between Triacastela and Samos (Province of Lugo, Galicia, Spain)
Today started: Fonfría (Province of Lugo, Galicia, Spain)
- “The oldest attestation of human presence in Galicia has been found in the Eirós Cave, in the municipality of Triacastela, which has preserved animal remains and Neanderthal stone objects from the Middle Paleolithic. (source)