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For example, yielded gold and tin, They began to make increasingly which was needed to make bronze. sophisticated tools and to smelt metals. In time, the Phoenicians were displaced by the Carthaginians. CELTS, PHOENICIANS AND GREEKS The origins of the mysterious In about 1200 BC Celts began to Basques, who already inhabited the migrate south, settling in the penin- north, are not clear, but it’s possible sula. Over the following centuries they are descended from the earliest they mixed with Iberian tribes, laying inhabitants of Iberia (Cro-Magnon).
It was from here that the Reconquest began, and from here that many of Spain’s great navigators originated. The north was involved in the Carlist Wars, and was a Republican stronghold during the Spanish Civil War. PREHISTORY in Galicia, the Celts built Remains of some of our distinctive hilltop settleearliest pre-human ancesments – castros – with tors were discovered in round stone houses. The caves at A Atapuerca, in Burgos best-known Celtiberian province, in 1976. They are tribe are the Arevacos, who estimated to be 800,000 The Mikeldi Idol, a famously defended Numantia years old.
Balconies are common in fishing villages. Their functional plan creates living space on the upper floor, with storage for fishing equipment on the ground floor. The remnants of Celtic castros near A Guarda 60 N O R T H E R N S PA I N R E G I O N B Y R E G I O N Street-by-Street: Santiago de Compostela w In the Middle Ages Santiago de Compostela was Christendom’s third most important place of pilgrimage, after Jerusalem and Rome. Around the Praza do Obradoiro is an ensemble of historic buildings that has few equals in Europe.