Pindo mountain (Monte Pindo Galician and Spanish, also known as A Moa) for the autonomous community of Galicia in Spain, located in the municipality of Carnota is a mountain in the province of La Coruna. It is composed of granite and 627 meters high. The mythology associated with the legend of the Galicians.
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The Pindo is a granite massif of 627 meters which is in the municipality of Carnota Coruña.
The Pindo form a natural beach along with Carnot, the natural Carnot - Pindo, cataloged as Site of Community Importance and is included in Natura 2000. The space has an area of 4629 hectares and covers the counties Carnota Mazaricos, Cee and Dumbría between Corcubion and estuaries of Muros
Origin
Pindo The term has its origin in the language most likely Celtic: Binn dubh (Mt. dark, dark top). According to the research doctor in linguistics from Stanford University in the US: James J. Duran, Ph. D. (Séamas Direáin O), or licensed in Geography and History from the University of Santiago de Compostela: Alberto Villaverde Lake and more than Henrique Egea Lapina, graduated in Classical Philology at the University of Santiago de Compostela, the name of Pindo test dialects Gaelic Celtic language spoken in the area before the Romanization of Gallaecia: Binn (Irish Gaelic) or beinn (Gaelic) (literally tip or apex) and dubh (adjective to describe something dark). Binn Dubh (pindub) amount after Pindo. The Romans gave, however, the name of Celtic Supertamarci (which refers to celtización the area).
The authors also provide several examples of physically similar to the hills of Carnot and called exactly that way in both Ireland (Monte Binn Dubh), as in Scotland (Beinn Dubh Monte).
History
The particular geomorphology of Mount Pindo, full of reliefs in granite bowls, inspired lots of stories and legends of deities, carvings, or mythical monsters and giants, including some on the river Xallas, because the waterfall Ézaro fall by its waters directly on the salt water of the sea. It found numerous archaeological remains, as petroglyphs helpful bronze and remains of a supposed old hermitage.
In the tenth century Sisnando (bishop of Iria Flavia) ordered the construction of the Castle of St. George on the shores of the mountain as protection against pirate attacks medieval. Several noble families of Galicia inhabited until the castle was destroyed in 1467 in Irmandiñas Revolutions.
In this environment would be other two castles, but one that does not retain material remains determinants or documentation parsable more than a Latin inscription on a stone isolated: Kings, bishops, priests, by all powers received from God, this castle here excomungaron
This inscription refers to excommunication that in 1130 launched the archbishop Gelmírez against Earl Lock, to have prisoner in his castle to the Archdeacon of Castile