Pontevedra

"Cement Eclipses", is a project of small cement sculptures that began while Cordal studied fine arts in Pontevedra, Spain in the early 2000s.

Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington: Little Cement Urbanites: Isaac Cordal's Street Art Installations Jaime Rojo 2010

"Cement Eclipses", is a project of small cement sculptures that began while Cordal studied fine arts in Pontevedra, Spain in the early 2000s.

Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington: Little Cement Urbanites: Isaac Cordal's Street Art Installations Jaime Rojo 2010

Doesn't this jumble of stones on the beach in Pontevedra look like a face?

Breakfast in Bed desayunoencama 2007

Pontevedra is pretty much at the confluence of the incoming salt and outflowing freshwater streams (although, of course, depending on the tide, rainflow, etc., exactly where this confluence is changes location).

Breakfast in Bed desayunoencama 2006

Also, my friend Xose lives in Pontevedra, so it's an excuse to visit with him, since that's only a short ride away.

Breakfast in Bed desayunoencama 2005

"Any foreign power," interrupted the notary public, "has a clear right to attack Vigo, but I cannot conceive what plea your countrymen could urge for distressing Pontevedra, which is a respectable town, and could never have offended them."

The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula George Henry Borrow 1842

“has a clear right to attack Vigo, but I cannot conceive what plea your countrymen could urge for distressing Pontevedra, which is a respectable town, and could never have offended them.”

The Bible in Spain 1712

Last year, the players of Spanish third division club Pontevedra followed in the footsteps of Granada and Real Jaén by staging a sit-down protest against Lugo.

What are the strangest on-pitch protests? | The Knowledge 2012

Stage 12, Sept. 1: Ponteareas to Pontevedra, 160km

Vuelta a España returns to Basque Country 2011

In 1925, Sister Lúcia, the only Fátima visionary to survive into adulthood reported that the Blessed Mother came to her in her convent at Pontevedra, Spain with the following statement: Look, my daughter, at my Heart encircled by these thorns with which men pierce it at every moment by their blasphemies and ingratitude.

First Saturday Esther G. 2009