Greetings in Galician language (with LivingJunction)

LivingJunction is a free tool that lets you create digital magazines and books. Although its configuration is in English, is a very easy to use. With it, you can write all the texts you need using different fonts and colors, as well as put them wherever you want and set the links you need. You can also upload your own photos or choose which offers the application from Bing (you will have to delete the link that appears on each of them to prevent jump to that page). Another option offered is to upload YouTube videos to supplement the information you want to present.

Once issued your magazine, book, unit ... you can reedit it whenever you want, expanding or reducing content. You can always vary the positions of the elements, making them larger or smaller, play with colors...The final result is open and that will depend on the imagination of its creator or creators because you can invite others to collaborate on your project.

This is our first test: a short introduction to the presentations and greetings in Galician.

En Galego: presentámonos

Galicia: your experience, your way...

Galicia: your experience, your way... is the title of our new and little magazine about this beautiful land. You can create your digital magazine with LivingJunction. You can choose videos, photos, texts and links and create your own book. 

We present Galicia in this magazine, its  four provinces (A Coruña, Lugo, Ourense and Pontevedra), its main towns and villages and its capital, Santiago de Compostela, the end of way of St. James.

What do you know about Galicia?

What do you know about Galicia? is an interactive game in Blubbr. You have 20 questions with videos and information about this green land in Spain. Where is Galicia? What is an "hórreo"? Where do you can eat oysters and drink Albariño wine? Watch and play it!

San Xoan's Day

San Xoan's Day or Bonfires of Saint John is a Festival of National Tourist interest in Galicia which takes place the night of 23 rd June and lasts till dawn, coinciding with the summer solstice.

For this festival, people gather together and create large bonfires from any kind of wood, such as old furniture and cardboard. Thousands of bonfires along the  beachs  and in each of the cities' neighbourhoods, bringing together groups of friends, families, to dance and participate in a banquet of barbecued sardines and boiled potatoes or "cachelos" and eat them with bread and wine. This is most common on the coast but it´s being extended to the rest of Galicia.

 In Galicia, Midsummer night is the night of miracles and enchantments.

The traditional ritual is jumping over the bonfire an odd number of times. San Xoan´s bonfires have purifying qualities: they stop people being jinxed and cure different illnesses.

That night the water from saint and miraculous fountains has a greater power. Sick people go there to have a bath or even to drink from it.

In Galicia it is very usual for people to collect flowers and different herbs during the afternoon and evening. Then, they put them into water and leave them there the whole night, until dawn. This way, they can get wet with the dew in the morning. One can wash oneself with that same water.
These herbs are called "San Xoan's herbs" and include several kinds like: "fennel", "camomile", "mallows", "lemon verbena", "laburnum", "rosemary", "rose", etc., having different healing qualities.

Rosalía de Castro's Day

Rosalía de Castro was an important poet in Galician language in the 19th Century. She wrote Cantares gallegos and Follas novas, two important masterpieces in our language. This year, we celebrate the 150 aniversary of  Cantares gallegos, the first book which was written only in Galician language after The Dark Centuries (Galician people didn't write literature from 16th Century to 18th Century , only spoke the language but no wrote it). I would like to show you some of her poems with Voicethread. Enjoy Rosalía's Day!


Lyrics were translated by Anna Marie Aldaz in her book Poems

A Galician way of life

This is a new video about Galicia. If you watch it, you will learn more about our local food, wine and the best seafood (barnacles, clams, oysters...). One person says in this video: all is beautiful here, and this is true! Why don't you come to Galicia this summer? You can read more about us in
Telegraph's Galicia homepage

Galicia, my community in Spain

This video is about Galicia, my community in Spain. You can watch our main cities and the most important tourist centers. Enjoy it and come here!

Typical Spanish

Today, I make a break to talk about my country. Do you know something about Spain? Are you agree with the vision about Spain in this video? I don't agree with the video because I am from Galicia, in Spain too, and there are only one image of Galicia in this two minutes. This image is the fantastic Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, but we have more interesting places in Galicia. Spain is not only sun, beach and party. You should come to Galicia, in the northwest, and enjoy our food, seafood, wine, nature, green land... Do you know more?

Galicia

Galicia is an autonomous comunity in northwest Spain. It comprises the provinces of A Coruña, Lugo, Ourense and Pontevedra. It is the best place in the world to live. You can see spectacular sceneries, eat well, drink better and enjoy life in small towns or enjoy the bustle of big cities like Vigo and A Coruña.