I'm Inês, journalist, author and researcher, living between the sea and the mountains of northern Portugal, less than an hour from Galicia. I've been mapping this territory for years, drawn to what persists: ancestral culture still inscribed in the landscape, shaping identity across time. Ophiussa ( "land of serpents") was the name ancient Greek and Phoenician navigators gave to the westernmost edge of the Iberian Peninsula. A name that suggests a place where myth, landscape and identity were never separate. This guide was born from the desire to read this territory beyond the surface: the Gallaecian hillforts still standing on Atlantic ridges, the legends of enchanted mouras, the pagan gods whose traces survive in stone and place name, the liminal shores where the ancient world ended and the unknown began. Every location here was chosen because it carries that depth, a layer of meaning beneath the visible. Not the standard itinerary, but a different way of inhabiting the land.
I'm Inês, journalist, author and researcher, living between the sea and the mountains of northern Portugal, less than an hour from Galicia. I've been mapping this territory for years, drawn to what persists: ancestral culture still inscribed in the landscape, shaping identity across time. Ophiussa ( "land of serpents") was the name ancient Greek and Phoenician navigators gave to the westernmost edge of the Iberian Peninsula. A name that suggests a place where myth, landscape and identity were never separate. This guide was born from the desire to read this territory beyond the surface: the Gallaecian hillforts still standing on Atlantic ridges, the legends of enchanted mouras, the pagan gods whose traces survive in stone and place name, the liminal shores where the ancient world ended and the unknown began. Every location here was chosen because it carries that depth, a layer of meaning beneath the visible. Not the standard itinerary, but a different way of inhabiting the land.
