Teaching history through a playful experience: The Torres de Oeste de Catoira...

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In today's society it is becoming increasingly difficult to find means to express the importance of history . Today life is fast-paced, information flows everywhere and it is easy to obtain data on any topic with great ease and speed. If a long text is written about events from the past, full of dates and information of various kinds, the most normal thing is that it is read only by people really interested in history, or by academic specialists. Although there are many people who are passionate about history, it is increasingly difficult to find the right channels to transmit it and capture the attention of potential interested parties . It is essential that history adapts to new times.

This is not about trivializing the past or its knowledge, nor about underestimating the importance given to historical rigor. But if we want history to maintain its status , for the past to generate interest and for us to continue feeling Fax Lists proud when recounting the facts that make each population a unique entity, it is necessary for the discipline to update its discourse and look for successful channels for its dissemination. This is the reason why it is important to rescue a current experience in which the playful and the historical coexist in an exemplary way. In the small Pontevedra municipality of  , which has less than inhabitants, every year since a festival called Viking Pilgrimage has been celebrated.



Since it has been a festival of international tourist interest , and brings together thousands of people. Among the festivities, which take place on the first weekend of August, there is no shortage of the best-known elements of Galician gastronomy: empanadas, seafood and good wine are tasted by all those who attend the pilgrimage. But everything is based on historical facts of the past .  has an exceptional monument: the so-called Torres de Oeste, the remains of a fortification whose origin dates back to the 10th century , but which continued to be expanded and reinforced until the  century. Its objective, to defend Santiago, and Galicia.