Anthropology

Las Médulas



Interesting website, has a 360º panorama photograph:

https://www.turismocastillayleon.com/en/countryside-nature/natural-areas/las-medulas

I read that Las Médulas was the largest source of gold in the entire Roman Empire. The area allows people to follow so many paths through the caves, going everywhere. Clearly you could spend a huge amount of time there, exploring, absorbing what it all could mean.

I understand the lives of slaves in the mines were very short. Unbearably sad, inhuman, so evil to do that to any living being.

There's so much to study available in the articles with the photographs.



Gavà Mines

Looking through the images connected to Gavà Mines, it seems even the artist Gaudi is involved, somehow, with a religious area he created, connected to some crypts, or something. That was unexpected!

There's so much more to read and see from the google images:

https://tinyurl.com/y64t2m3e

Someone could get lost in the reading and studying there, too!

So glad you considered mentioning these historic, ancient, dynamic places in the world. So much happened there over thousands of years, so much of it painful. It would be important to find out a lot more.

I live in the center of the United States, in Kansas City. Not so close to Barcelona, which would be an amazing place to live. I was not aware of the incredible far more ancient past connected to that part of Spain, and I really want to learn more about it when I can find the time.

You do have deeply significant historic sites right where you are, don't blame you at all for making trips to those places with your wife as often as possible. So much to think about that makes them far more valuable than people normally experience on trips.

It is odd that all the way to Orkney, you discovered another place from your own home! You must have been so surprised! It would be amazing that not only was she a compatriot, she had the very same deep interests, as well.

It sounds as if you are able to travel substantially, even after your serious, tragic accident and the damage it did to your life. It's remarkable you are able to move beyond that trauma so well.

There's a lot more I want to see and learn about the material you've brought to our attention. You are located in a great place on the planet, surrounded by complex histories and prehistories.

Your Facebook link doesn't work, somehow, for me. I'll see what I can figure out. Thank you.