The smaller-than-expected impact of the fires on the vineyards was the result of a firebreak effect and a commitment to a life connected with nature.

ARTICLES We trace a map where wheat and rye symbolize renewal. Mallega in Piornedo (Cervantes, Os Ancares). (Photo: Brais Lorenzo) SERGIO PASCUAL Text BRAIS LORENZO Photo Harvesting and threshing are rituals being revived in Galicia with the aim of preserving identity, fostering community, and promoting the rethatching of the pallozas of Os Ancares. Together with

ARTICLES The communities of the Groba or Sabucedo mountains take charge of the ‘curros’ to preserve the wild horse and biodiversity in Galicia. A aloitador with a T-shirt against the installation of wind turbines during the Rapa das bestas in Sabucedo, A Estrada (Tabeirós-Terra de Montes). (Photo: Brais Lorenzo) CLÁUDIA MORÁN Text BRAIS LORENZO Photo

ARTICLES The population of centenarians in Galicia has quadrupled since the beginning of the 21st century, and it continues to grow every year. Remedios Cabanelas, centenary of Puxedo, Lobios (Baixa Limia). (Photo: Brais Lorenzo) SOL MENDIGUCHÍA Text SERGIO PASCUAL Text BRAIS LORENZO Photo In recent years, inland Galicia has become a kind of large-scale laboratory

ARTICLES The case of Muras illustrates the complex idiosyncrasies arising from the coexistence of rural populations and wind farms. A wild horse in front of the wind turbines of a wind farm in Muras (A Mariña), a municipality with 600 inhabitants and the largest number of wind turbines in all of Galicia. (Photo: Brais Lorenzo)

ARTICLES Women are the protagonists of a rural world that is beginning to be recognized as a space essentially sustained by femininity. Auria Cabanelas, nineteen-year-old from the town of Puxedo (Lobios, A Baixa Limia). (Photo Brais Lorenzo) ALBA MOLEDO UCHA Text CLÁUDIA MORÁN Text BRAIS LORENZO Photo Six stories and 60 years of difference intersect

ARTICLES Against the widespread notion of Entroido as a massive festival, Galician villages assert its deeper meaning. A maragato interacts with a woman during the Entroido Ribeirao in Santiago de Arriba, in Chantada. (Photo: Brais Lorenzo) MANOLO BROA Text CLÁUDIA MORÁN Text SERGIO PASCUAL Text SOL MENDIGUCHÍA Text BRAIS LORENZO Photo Against the widespread notion