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"There are still 'druids' making offerings to the god Endovélico"

Observador2 September 2026 at 08:16

Mafalda Santos, a handcrafted painter in the digital age, is the director of the 24th International Art Biennale of Cerveira, which this year takes place with the theme "Territories without Borders". This biennial is presented as the oldest on the Iberian Peninsula.

The article mentions that there are still people who dedicate themselves to ancient practices, specifically referring to the existence of "druids" who continue to make offerings to the god Endovélico, a deity of Celtic origin worshipped in the region.

The cultural manifestation of Cerveira thus assumes a role of bridge between ancestral traditions and contemporary artistic expressions, reflecting on the absence of borders between different territories and epochs.

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