Spring Equinox 2013
La Lanzada, Pontevedra We visited this small chapel on a once-defended with a tower peninsula sticking out into the sea, but since then they've excavated a castro on the land side of the last sticky-out bit. It's a really nice, cleanly rebuilt castro with stones of many different colours, suggesting that some had been brought to the site from outside. This is one of those sites with more questions than answers. Obviously the chapel was built here because it was already an important site - the chapel is dedicated to sea-farers, and is still an important place for those who have family working out at sea. But before you get out to the last finger of land, you cross what was obviously once a well defended castle gate with now collapsed tower. While there is plenty of write-up around the castro, the tower has no placard or notice; not even a simple sign with a name that could've offered a clue, such as 'Gothic Tower'. The stones are the same as the castro, but thi...