The Soutomaior Castle Already Has Its Historical and Illustrated Guide
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NEW RELEASE The Soutomaior Castle already has The historian Diego Piay Augusto its(Pontevedra, historical 1979) publishes and an historical and illustrated guide about illustratedthe Soutomaior Castle, one guide of the most outstanding Galician monuments. The work is co-edited by Alvarellos Editora and Deputación de Pontevedra, and printed in three languages: Galician, Spanish and English. FILE. Size: 17x21 cms. 184 pp. Price: 20 € English ISBN 978-84-16460-86-1 Galician ISBN 978-84-16460-85-4 Spanish ISBN 978-84-16460-84-7 summer 2020.- Every theS�������-P���������, Soutomaior Castle’s walls is very special. illustrations and plans that will immerse the castle has its own history, but the one inside reader in the history of one of the most outs- Diego Piay Augusto tanding monuments of the Rías Baixas. Nowadays it sits majestically and in silence, do- (Pontevedra, 1979) has minating the valley of the Verdugo river in theth a degree in History with the specialties of Ar- province of Pontevedra. Its past is hidden be- chaeology and Ancient History. He is a pro- hashind gone its sturdy through walls all and the goesstages back of itsto thehistory 12 fessor of Ancient History at the University of century. The fascination provoked by this place Oviedo and, simultaneously, has worked as an archaeologist for over twenty years, directing Press Release Press and arrived to our days. Illustrious proprieta- archaeological interventions and taking part tomaiorries and visitorsCastle. have left here their permanent Prisciliano.in emblematic Vida excavations y muerte de such un disidenteas Pompeii en orel marks and Thethey Soutomaior will be forever Castle, part a placeof the full Sou- of amanecerPiazza Armerina. del Imperio He isCristiano the author of the bookMa- history ría Vinyals, the woman of the future. Seven lives This book, under the shadow of a castle (2018) and (Alvarellos Editora-Deputación de Pon- tevedra) is not an historical essay or a common (Alvarellos Edito- guide, but an illustrated work that will allow us ra, 2019). He obtainedcum his laude doctorate in 2016 to discover a fortress that went from being the at the University of Santiago de Compostela centre of power inth Galiciacentury. during the Middle Ages with an outstanding mark and also to complete oblivion, and was revived again at received a special doctorate award. Numerous the end of the 19 papers published in national and international A narration full of anecdotes and information ajournals, researcher. in which archaeological sources have unknown until this day, including more than a always enjoyed a main role, certify his work as Tohundred contact pictures the author: (historical [email protected] and current ones), - +34 658 03 32 72 Alvarellos Editora SL CIF B-70183082. Rúa de Sempre en Galiza, 4 (plaza interior) 15706 Santiago de Compostela. Galicia- Spain. Tel 981 522 137 - 609 90 88 52 - [email protected] - www.alvarellos.info.