De los solsticios en los castros a los santos cristianos. La creación de los paisajes cristianos en Galicia

Abstract

The symbolic landscapes of three different areas of the western part of Ourense province are studied. They belong to two different periods. Firstly we study three big hill-forts (oppida) of the Second Iron Age, their continuity under Roman Empire and their relation with relevant solar orientations that bring into the argument another kind of archaeological entities defined as sanctuaries. We detect, then, a dual model of territorial appropriation formed by the hillfort and the sanctuary linked by solar relations. Secondly we study the earlier testimonies of evangelization available for every case, and we notice how evangelization reads, in some way, the previous local cultural landscapes and use them following a common Christian inspiration with different manifestations. Finally we will try to outline a historical characterization of these
observations, we want to stress the fact that we have left multiple questions opened around a study whose relevance we are, in fact, proposing now: how is a landscape evangelized?