Tour Turístico Galway. Irlanda.
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- Distance
- 2.52 mi
- Elevation gain
- 49 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Moderate
- Elevation loss
- 49 ft
- Max elevation
- 47 ft
- TrailRank
- 50
- Min elevation
- -239 ft
- Trail type
- Loop
- Moving time
- 12 minutes
- Time
- 2 hours 37 minutes
- Coordinates
- 223
- Uploaded
- October 7, 2023
- Recorded
- October 2023
near Galway, Connacht (Ireland)
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🇮🇪 Galway is the capital of County Galway, in Ireland. The city is located on the west coast of the island, in the northwestern corner of Galway Bay. The River Corrib runs through the city. Youthful and dynamic, it is one of the cities with the most economic growth in the European Union.
With more than eight centuries since its founding, Galway owes its name to the stone bed of the Corrib, the river that runs through it. Although, if we are to believe the legends, the origin of the toponym would be found in Celtic mythology, according to which Galvia, daughter of King Breasal, drowned near a rock in the Corrib. Finally, a minority current of historians defends that the name is a derivation of the Latin term Gallaeci (Gallaecia), a land with which the ancestors of Galway would have had fluid relations from very remote times.
Dún Bhun na Gaillimhe (Fort on the Bottom of the Gaillimh) was built in 1124, by the king of Connacht, Toirdelbach Ua Conchobair (1088-1156). It was initially a small settlement that grew up around the fort. During the Norman invasion of Connacht around 1230, Galway was besieged and captured by Richard Mór de Burgh, one of the Anglo-Norman invaders, who arrived in these latitudes and attempted to take the castle defended by the local clan of the O'Flaherty. After two years of sieges, he achieved his objective. Since 1232, harassed by Irish tribes, the town of Galway grew walled and loyal to the English throne. Led by the Norman leaders, a few families monopolized the main businesses. This was the genesis of the so-called fourteen tribes of Galway, an appellation that Oliver Cromwell's soldiers would dedicate centuries later to the de facto powers of the city.
At the dawn of the 14th century, the town was already beginning to emerge as a thriving commercial port in which Spanish wines were highly appreciated. Perhaps the most important of these families was that of the Lynches who built the church of Saint Nicholas, considered the second largest and best preserved medieval parish in Ireland.
The city of Galway was a regular destination for Spanish ships in the 15th and 16th centuries. Arches are still preserved in the old dock, just in front of Spanish Parade. The wine trade, which was the center of almost all commercial transactions in Galway; salmon fishing, disputed between the French, Portuguese, English and Spanish, who got their way when Philip II agreed to pay 1000 pounds for the Spanish right to fish, the fight against Protestantism and the common aversion to England led to a great cooperation. "Everything in this city has an air of Spain." When the Scottish traveler Robert Graham visited Galway in 1836, he wrote that the arrogance, which he said was typical of the Iberian Peninsula, defined its inhabitants, and that in the alleys one could perceive the atmosphere of mourning and indolence typical of more southern latitudes. .
Many of its citizens migrated to Spanish colonies after the English invasion of Ireland. One of them was Captain John Augustine Evans, who traveled to Chile on the HMS Wager with Lord Byron, sinking in the Chonos Archipelago. He traveled north with his Royal Marines. Evans was the second Irishman in Chile after Ambrosio O'Higgins. He asked him to manage the Perquilauquén Hacienda, belonging to the Spanish Crown. Evans changed his last name to Ibáñez, being the first of a long Chilean family that has held important positions in that society, including his great-grandson Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, President of Chile on two occasions.
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With more than eight centuries since its founding, Galway owes its name to the stone bed of the Corrib, the river that runs through it. Although, if we are to believe the legends, the origin of the toponym would be found in Celtic mythology, according to which Galvia, daughter of King Breasal, drowned near a rock in the Corrib. Finally, a minority current of historians defends that the name is a derivation of the Latin term Gallaeci (Gallaecia), a land with which the ancestors of Galway would have had fluid relations from very remote times.
Dún Bhun na Gaillimhe (Fort on the Bottom of the Gaillimh) was built in 1124, by the king of Connacht, Toirdelbach Ua Conchobair (1088-1156). It was initially a small settlement that grew up around the fort. During the Norman invasion of Connacht around 1230, Galway was besieged and captured by Richard Mór de Burgh, one of the Anglo-Norman invaders, who arrived in these latitudes and attempted to take the castle defended by the local clan of the O'Flaherty. After two years of sieges, he achieved his objective. Since 1232, harassed by Irish tribes, the town of Galway grew walled and loyal to the English throne. Led by the Norman leaders, a few families monopolized the main businesses. This was the genesis of the so-called fourteen tribes of Galway, an appellation that Oliver Cromwell's soldiers would dedicate centuries later to the de facto powers of the city.
At the dawn of the 14th century, the town was already beginning to emerge as a thriving commercial port in which Spanish wines were highly appreciated. Perhaps the most important of these families was that of the Lynches who built the church of Saint Nicholas, considered the second largest and best preserved medieval parish in Ireland.
The city of Galway was a regular destination for Spanish ships in the 15th and 16th centuries. Arches are still preserved in the old dock, just in front of Spanish Parade. The wine trade, which was the center of almost all commercial transactions in Galway; salmon fishing, disputed between the French, Portuguese, English and Spanish, who got their way when Philip II agreed to pay 1000 pounds for the Spanish right to fish, the fight against Protestantism and the common aversion to England led to a great cooperation. "Everything in this city has an air of Spain." When the Scottish traveler Robert Graham visited Galway in 1836, he wrote that the arrogance, which he said was typical of the Iberian Peninsula, defined its inhabitants, and that in the alleys one could perceive the atmosphere of mourning and indolence typical of more southern latitudes. .
Many of its citizens migrated to Spanish colonies after the English invasion of Ireland. One of them was Captain John Augustine Evans, who traveled to Chile on the HMS Wager with Lord Byron, sinking in the Chonos Archipelago. He traveled north with his Royal Marines. Evans was the second Irishman in Chile after Ambrosio O'Higgins. He asked him to manage the Perquilauquén Hacienda, belonging to the Spanish Crown. Evans changed his last name to Ibáñez, being the first of a long Chilean family that has held important positions in that society, including his great-grandson Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, President of Chile on two occasions.
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