{"id":63311,"date":"2024-07-11T21:30:55","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T19:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/great-goldberg.213-199-36-195.plesk.page\/post\/arquina-de-vilaseco-vimianzo"},"modified":"2024-09-17T19:50:59","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T17:50:59","slug":"arquina-de-vilaseco-vimianzo","status":"publish","type":"contenido","link":"https:\/\/visitacostadamorte.com\/en\/post\/arquina-de-vilaseco-vimianzo","title":{"rendered":"Arqui\u00f1a de Vilaseco (Vimianzo)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The tumulus that hides a dolmen<\/h2>\n<p>  Protected by a huge mound of earth, which reaches almost 40 metres in diameter, is the Arch of Vilaseco.<br \/>\nOf this dolmen, which could be one of the largest in A Costa da Morte, you can barely see the upper part of a polygonal chamber, with four stone slabs, part of the corridor facing southeast and one of its covering covers.<br \/>\nIn any case, the fact that the megalith is still underground suggests good conservation, which perhaps future archaeological excavations can confirm.<br \/>\nAn interesting element is the stone wall dividing estates that passes just above the Arqui\u00f1a.<br \/>\nThis circumstance is repeated in other monuments in the territory such as Pedra Cuberta, Chan das Embarradas or Arca do Rab\u00f3s.<br \/>\nThey tell us that burial mounds and dolmens continued to be used for purposes other than funerary long after the disappearance of the societies that built them.<br \/>\nThe megaliths were not only a source of legends and myths for traditional Galician society, but they were also used to mark the boundaries of parishes, farms, preserves&#8230;<br \/>\nDuring the Middle Ages there were a large number of documents in Galicia such as agricultural contracts, land sales&#8230; which refer to megalithic monuments as territorial frameworks.<br \/>\nWhen boundaries were fixed, fixed elements in the landscape were always used, such as rivers, paths or mountains, but also archaeological sites such as tumuli, dolmens, forts and even petroglyphs.        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tumulus that hides a dolmen Protected by a huge mound of earth, which reaches almost 40 metres in diameter, is the Arch of Vilaseco. Of this dolmen, which could be one of the largest in A Costa da Morte, you can barely see the upper part of a polygonal chamber, with four stone slabs, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":16163,"template":"","concellos-contenido":[328],"categorias-contenido":[244,252,410],"class_list":["post-63311","contenido","type-contenido","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","concellos-contenido-vimianzo-en","categorias-contenido-culture-and-history","categorias-contenido-megalitismo-en","categorias-contenido-prehistory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitacostadamorte.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contenido\/63311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitacostadamorte.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contenido"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitacostadamorte.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/contenido"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitacostadamorte.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitacostadamorte.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"concellos-contenido","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitacostadamorte.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/concellos-contenido?post=63311"},{"taxonomy":"categorias-contenido","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitacostadamorte.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categorias-contenido?post=63311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}