Old Portomarin

[grayland]

This site is interesting.
Not sure if there is another thread I missed..if so I will delete his one.

http://www.trueactivist.com/images-show-how-spains-severe-drought-reveals-lost-villages-gallery/19

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

This site is interesting.
Not sure if there is another thread I missed..if so I will delete his one.

http://www.trueactivist.com/images-show-how-spains-severe-drought-reveals-lost-villages-gallery/19

Weird. I'm seeing Spain in the title but pictures of the western US.

 

[mspath]

Weird. I'm seeing Spain in the title but pictures of the western US.

When the link loads click the arrow to the left several times to see old Portomarin and a short description.

 

[Saint Mike II]

Weird. I'm seeing Spain in the title but pictures of the western US.

Totally agree - this type of "copying" is a real pain in the you know where! How about just posting the actual picture rather that the whole link!

 

[HalfDomeOrBust]

This site is interesting.
Not sure if there is another thread I missed..if so I will delete his one.

http://www.trueactivist.com/images-show-how-spains-severe-drought-reveals-lost-villages-gallery/19

Thanks Grayland for posting, The link was very interesting. Ed

 

[grayland]

Is this happening now...or is that an old article?
Has anyone been on the bridge into Portomarin and been able to see the old town due to low water level?

 

[HalfDomeOrBust]

Is this happening now...or is that an old article?
Has anyone been on the bridge into Portomarin and been able to see the old town due to low water level?

I will be there in May....will probably be flooded over by then of course...........

 

[VNwalking]

Weird. I'm seeing Spain in the title but pictures of the western US.

The same thing happened to me. But clicking the tag for Galicia took me eventually to this different photo gallery--the link is to the the place where it starts to show Portomarin.

 

[NavyBlue]

Has anyone been on the bridge into Portomarin and been able to see the old town due to low water level?

Hello Grayland,

Looks like there is not much to be seen (2014) :

 

[JabbaPapa]

Is this happening now...or is that an old article?
Has anyone been on the bridge into Portomarin and been able to see the old town due to low water level?

I walked over the old bridge into Portomarin on my last Camino in 2014.

There's a little more to see when you're down there than is evident from NavyBlue's photos, so that you get a bit more sense of the old town's layout and port area etc, but you can mostly get the gist of it from looking down from the upper bridge level, as I saw on an earlier Camino when the water level was mere inches above the old bridge level. The best thing down there is the river itself and how beautiful it is when it's not being a reservoir instead.