Galician: Adiós ríos, adiós fontes-Goodbye Rivers, Goodbye Fountains

Galician: Adiós ríos, adiós fontes-Goodbye Rivers, Goodbye Fountains

This is a well-known poem by Galician writer Rosalía de Castro (Santiago de Compostela, 1837-Padrón, 1835). The speaker of the poem says goodbye to his homeland, his house, his loved one, before migrating to Latin America. The poetry collection Cantares Gallegos [Galician Songs] was published in Vigo on May 17th, 1863. On the one hundred anniversary of this publication, the Real Academia Gallega [Royal Galician Academy] instituted May 17th as the Dia das letras galegas [Day of Galician Letters] to celebrate literature written in Galician. Rosalía de Castro was the first writer to be honored on May 17th, 1963.

About the Galician language: Galego is one of five languages spoken in the Iberian Peninsula together with Basque, Catalan, Portuguese and Spanish. Galician is spoken by approximately 2.4 million people mainly in Galicia.

Rosalía de Castro
Carmela Ferradáns

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Galician

Carmela Ferradáns

Vigo, Spain