Tag: Catalonia
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Cadaques and megalithic dolmens
Megalithic structures are those made with large (mega) stones (lithic) and I’m going to say usually a long time ago because we humans seem to have stopped exerting such great individual effort to build small structures from such large materials. (We’ve instead distributed the great effort and probably exert more than ever. Think about the…
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Roses, España
Roses is a city on the Costa Brava in Catalonia, Spain. It’s name derives partially from the Ancient Greek colony, Rhode (named by explorers from Marseille) founded here sometime between the 8th and 5th centuries BCE among the furthest west of the empire. The Romans came along and eventually threw out the Greeks, then the…