I'm Inês — journalist, author and researcher based in Esposende, northern Portugal, less than an hour from Galicia. I've spent years mapping this territory, drawn to what persists beneath the surface: ancestral culture still inscribed in the landscape, myth still legible in stone and place name. 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 landscape, myth and identity were never separate. This guide was born from that premise: a different way of reading the territory. Not the standard itinerary. Every location here was chosen because it carries depth — Gallaecian hillforts on Atlantic ridges, liminal shores where the ancient world ended, traces of pagan gods that survived Romanisation and Christianisation alike. A territory that rewards attention.
I'm Inês — journalist, author and researcher based in Esposende, northern Portugal, less than an hour from Galicia. I've spent years mapping this territory, drawn to what persists beneath the surface: ancestral culture still inscribed in the landscape, myth still legible in stone and place name. 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 landscape, myth and identity were never separate. This guide was born from that premise: a different way of reading the territory. Not the standard itinerary. Every location here was chosen because it carries depth — Gallaecian hillforts on Atlantic ridges, liminal shores where the ancient world ended, traces of pagan gods that survived Romanisation and Christianisation alike. A territory that rewards attention.
