Galicia: The rest of spain forgot us | VPRO Documentary
In a very small reader's note, Stef Biemans has read that the Galicians feel forgotten by the rest of Spain. He travels to the Costa da Morte to find out if this is really the case. In his letters, he asks what he absolutely must not overlook when visiting Galicia.
It is not surprising that Galicia often does not feel heard, because it does not try very hard to do so. That is what an artist Stef meets says, and he sees what he means when he attends a protest against windmills. It is calm and civilised, and almost unnoticed. The Galicians are not very fond of the central authority, but the church is still very important here. Coastal residents know they are protected by the Virgin of the Boat, and that is much needed on the Costa da Morte, where the sea gives and takes.
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I can´t express the feelings I have after watching this. I´ve been to Spain countless times, but when I finally reached Galicia I knew for me it was the most special part of all. It´s such a magnificent place, people who live there are so lucky to be having peaceful time in these lands. Thank you for making this video, I hope more people will see it!
are you kidding me? so real and raw and truthful what a genius interviewer.....to bring the real people of Galicia to life..... I am grateful
I've visited different parts of Spain but Galicia is my favorite bit of Spain. Actually the whole north is a gem. I recommend everyone to visit and meet the most friendly people of Spain. You will enjoy!
I’m a son of Galician immigrants who came to the US for a better life, watching this brought a tear to my eye, and made me proud to be Galician, Thank you
@rubendias3973
7 ай бұрын
Abraco de um irmao portugues!
Congratulations to you Stef and to your team for a compassionate insight into a special place. Very nicely done.
A wonderful documentary, that brought tears to my eyes. I'll be visiting Galicia in August (2024) and it's fun to see that all of these old people remind me so much of my grandma and grandpa (who are Galicians)... Thanks for the video.
VPRO Documental, sobran los acordes andaluces de guitarra en algunos momentos de recorrido por Galicia. El maldito tópico de la España de flamenco y olé! Galicia no es esa España, por lo que me extraña esa música ajena que se mezcla en medio de los ambientes gallegos. Galicia es un antiguo país europeo del Estado español, con cultura e idioma propio. Una joya medio olvidada en el noroeste de la península ibérica. Gracias y un saludo desde Santiago de Compostela, capital de Galicia, patrimonio de la humanidad y ciudad universal.
@adelinod.5568
Жыл бұрын
Seria melhor sumarizado se dissemos que Galiza não é Espanha.
@buteos8632
10 ай бұрын
@@adelinod.5568 E lá viriam os castelhanos...abraços d'além Gerês.
Que documentaría tan conmovedora! Tu manera de tejer cada personalidad representando cómo se siente ser de Galicia es muy íntima y poética. Muchísimas gracias!
Qué buen documental! Me encantó! Sin duda ha logrado capturar el alma de esta región.
One of the best documentaries I've seen in a long time. Great work!
@buteos8632
10 ай бұрын
That's sad to hear, maybe you want to check the comments from Galicians...or maybe you're just another libtard, in which case...never mind.
Many countries have regions that don't fit the national profile. Galicia is one, northern 1/3rd of germany. Nord pas de calais, corsica, alsace, and the basque lands which france shares with spain. And in the us: louisiana and hawaii. Countries like corporations are brands they invest in what sells.
I'm going to see this place in person one day.
Half of Galicia is in Portugal. Most of he kings and the bishops of the Kingdom of Galicia are buried in Braga. Yes, there are four Spanish provinces that kept the historical name, but that means nothing. Northern Portugal is as Galician, often more so than, as the Spanish provinces.
Bellle vidéo sur les habitants de Galicie !!! Merci !
Northern Portugal and Spanish Galicia is like French Brittany , and British wales , Scotland and Ireland . It’s far west europe at the western coasts of Europe and are probably the last remains of the Celtic world. And yes their cultures are kinda on the cliffhangers you could say.
Have to say several things, first of all concerning protest, who says galicians don't protest, we do, but it's impossible to expect big protests like in Catalonia in a country like our were the biggest city has just 300.000 people (counting the perifery). There is just too little concentration of people for protests to turn out to be big when the question is something that's seen as "local" and that mainstream media don't talk much about. Second, galicia and resistance to franco, what do u mean we didn't resist? The spanish civil war ended in Galicia when the last guerrilla fighters were killed in the sixties in Galicia. Buying into that the war ended in 1939 is buying into the francoist historiography.
That was a beautiful and sensitive documentary of the Galicians.
What a beautiful piece of art
Very well done! I’m a person of Galician and Portuguese ancestry who was born in California. My surname is Galego, but my maternal side came to California when Hawaii was stolen by the U.S.A. I’ve heard how “stubborn” the Galicians are! They should at least join the international community of Portuguese speaking countries, IMO. My ancestry may explain my otherwise unexplainable love of bagpipes! Not a really popular sound here, but it must come from my blood. Anyway, thanks for this. A very unique and irreplaceable people of the sea. Viva Galicia!
@javest6965
Жыл бұрын
Galego and português are not the same language!
@tumblebugspace
Жыл бұрын
@@javest6965 They’re *obviously* related. Without Galego-Portuguese language, there’d be no Galician *or* Portuguese languages! 🤣
@zvczvc
Жыл бұрын
@johnwhyte7834
Жыл бұрын
Sorry galicia here,you don't leave spain to join portugal.galicia fought to be free of portugal before spain absorbed it
This is a great series, loving the episodes so far! Thank you from the UK
@vprodocumentary
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much!
@peterp4037
2 жыл бұрын
@@vprodocumentary As Spaniard it surprises me the toxicity of these series about Spain. I can't find anything like this about the netherlands in Spanish but you seem to manage to keep manipulating our history our culture and image in a way that I find it disturbing. Are you still buthurt because we conquered you for over 150 years?. We have forgotten that moment. Why don't you make a series about your abuses in africa?. Why that passive aggression against Spain, when they don't do the same to your country despite they have a powerful language spoken by 500 million people?.
It is not true that the church has particular influence in Galicia. It is making category of a very specific group of people. The disaffection with the church is as much as in the rest of Spain, or more. I think the North of the country has broken with the church more than the South.
@TheMaru666
Жыл бұрын
Most of people is anticlerical they might be catholic practicants adept to saints and the Virgin Mary , but dessafectionate with priests and church . There are plenty of very old folk songs about priests being naughty with the handmaiden or other whomen.
I'm revisiting Galicia again in May this year (2023). First visited in 2017 for a cultural astronomy conference in Santiago de compostela. Love the landscape and culture.
Vaya cosa bonita, muchas gracias por hacerlo así de bien
Aquí no tenemos polders ,Sr.neerlandés,pero últimamente sólo veo molinos de viento ...o son desaforados gigantes?
Te recomiendo un maravilloso poema de nuestra gran Rosalía De Castro, castellanos de Castilla
Turn on subtitles people.
This was beautiful ❤
Spain is the arabization of Iberia, the dutch always loved the ottomans just like the venetians! Galicians should have joined Dom Afonso Henriques. Europe is falling so maybe there will be another chance to fix Iberia! Abraços irmãos da bela Galícia!!!
It is always interesting learning about the different regions of Spain since so many reactionaries in Latin America as well as the diaspora love to call themselves Spanish but know little if anything about how Spain like Latin America is regional with certain regions not even wanting to identify with Spain.
Wow. I'm from Santiago, and a blacksmith and welder. I REALLY need a contact with Oscar.
Holanda fue uno de los paises que mas azuzó la leyenda negra.Aún les escuece el Gran Duque de Alba?
Galizia es bella, es sincera y eterna. Saludos
Leuk programma over Een klein stukje Galicië. Ik heb hier ongeveer 20 jaar gewoond. Het verbaast me nog steeds. Negeer de domme politieke opmerking in deze sectie. Pas op voor trollen!
It is caused by building high speed rails to Madrid , country centralization. The same happens in France
I love the reaction of the trio at the beginning of the video. They are happy talking about the food but when the conversation goes towards politics and centralism, they back off. You can tell they are right wing.
I would argue that that's a good thing
Bravo Oscar pour le poisson !!!!!
The silent suffering of our people.the hopes and disillusioned life of the sea
That was a stupid move,doesn't want to show his face but shows his very distinctive tattoo, easily identifiable.
Free people find the trouble inside but not beyond. One way to get rid of your hatred of Madrid is to become Prime Minister of Spain and live in Madrid
Non é unha interpretación axeitada falar de Galiza como do resto de Espanha....Iso non é máis que unha análise que tamén parte do españolismo e nega tendenciosamente a independência de Galicia cando levamos neste mundo dende moito Antes e cons mesmos dereitos que outros pobos malia que tamén negados.Porén Grazas pola idea e pola intención.Se non Somos capaces de facer análises independentes, alternativos e desligados da meseta non ímos entender nunca o papel de Galicia no mundo nin solucionar os problemas máis básicos
@buteos8632
10 ай бұрын
This is just the sensationalist exploration of rich cultures that got crushed by the imperial Hapsburg royals of Europa for money. Simply said...he's a pimp!!!
Can't understand a word of it.
@Ribeirasacra
2 жыл бұрын
Use Subtitles they give that hint at the beginning!
@catherinemoore9534
2 жыл бұрын
@@Ribeirasacra It's a great advice but I'm surprised you think I need it.. So let me explain: Those subtitles are useless: too fast and not clear enough from the background.
@concepcioncastrogarcia6471
2 жыл бұрын
Puede pedir a you tube que le traduzcan los comentarios al idioma que usted guste, es lo que hago yo cuando los comentarios, (muchos de ellos falsos en lo que concierne la historia de mi país) están en inglés o para vídeos que están en Chino, Ruso, Paquistaní....
Free Catalunya , Free The Basques , and Free Galicia
@TheSchiffReport
2 жыл бұрын
@ OK I forgot , Free Canarias , Free Andalucia , Free Aragon and Free Asturias too.....you very well know that Galicia was always part of the kingdom of Portugal and that Spain is illegaly occupying it ....get off Galicia (and the others ) now !!!!!
@TheSchiffReport
2 жыл бұрын
@ ex spanish colony (just partially btw ) and for how long 30 years at most , how about the 800 years your grand fathers were our slaves sucking up our toes....
@TheSchiffReport
2 жыл бұрын
@ well of course we are not dangerous savages like you , still the Moores never wanted to force convert you in order not to give you full citizen's rights
@TheSchiffReport
2 жыл бұрын
@ kicked out of Spain ? did you know that your queen Isabella and her husband took upon themselves not to bath until the Moores are out of Iberia , so they did not bath for 3 years at least and when her and her troops approached Granada the Muslims had to run away just from the smell of these troops who have not bathed for years .....
@TheSchiffReport
2 жыл бұрын
@ centralized government ? you are talking about Franco's government here not ours ...and shall I remind you what Franco's Moorish troops (The Guardia Mora) did to your fathers and grand fathers during the Spanish civil war ....go ask around ....
To understand Galicia , you need to understand that this always was a part of the kingdom of Portugal and that the kingdom of Spain occupied it in a time of weakness of Portugal , Spain goal was to isolate Portugal from the rest of Europe ...the Galicians still speak Portuguese
@paununs8719
2 жыл бұрын
Galicians existed and spoke galician before Portugal ever existed. Stop taking drugs, my friend.
@TheSchiffReport
2 жыл бұрын
@@paununs8719 are you galician ?
@paununs8719
2 жыл бұрын
@@TheSchiffReport You don't need to be galician to know that
@TheSchiffReport
2 жыл бұрын
@@paununs8719 well Galicia was part of the kingdom of Portugal and they speak a "portuguese" dialect ....I understand both portuguese and spanish , how about you ?
@paununs8719
2 жыл бұрын
@@TheSchiffReport I understand both, it doesn't matter though. You are spreading misinformation, rapaz.
Documental nefasto, digno de neerlandeses que lo único que buscan es la división y disolución de España.
@user-tm5em4vu7u
Жыл бұрын
100%! Mentirosos! Viva Espana!! 🇪🇸
Viva Espana y el Rey!! Viva el Santo Imperio Espanol!! 🇪🇸 🇲🇽 ❤️
@buteos8632
10 ай бұрын
The empire that ended it's true original cultures for the germanic Hapsburgs.... :( A sad story.
Bellle vidéo sur les habitants de Galicie !!! Merci !