5 Legends on the Coast of Death

"The Coast of the Death" is usually known as a place where intrepid sailors, deep and ancient traditions and full of superstitions and legends, passed from parents to children in the long winter nights, when the storms prevent the boats from going to And in which Death is the protagonist, due among other theories to the bravery of the sea in these coasts. A sea that has no mercy with ships or men, making the bottom of the sea a blue cemetery for hundreds of sailors.

Legends say that since this land, the End of the World, there was the border with Death, since in ancient times there was a belief that the land was flat and Finisterre was considered the westernmost end of the European continent. Say, the point of Europe closest to the end of the world.

They also talked about the fact that here, on the Finis terrae, the Way of the Stars ended, today the Road to Santiago, where ancient Celtic walkers came from all over Europe to the place where the sun died every day to be reborn a new life of Light, from there The name of "coast of death".

Finisterre has also been associated with the Ara Solis It tells the tradition that the Romans found in the place an altar to the sun (Ara Solis) built there by the Phoenicians and that the Apostle Santiago would order to destroy soon after.

Also in this mount Facho are As  Holy Stones , two great and almost round stones to which certain gifts are attributed to them, like the one of the fertility. Legend has it that the Virgin Mary and her Son Jesus, on their trip to Finisterre, after leaving the stone boat at Muxia, sat down to rest on these stones, giving them the gift that despite their weight anyone With one hand he could move them. On the other hand it is also said that on these stones the Virgin appeared to some shepherds.