Buffoons of Castro Urdiales

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Overview of Ostend beach
Overview of Ostend beach

The North of Spain, not in vain considered as a whole as a true Natural Paradise, in which to the immeasurable beauty of its imposing mountains, its deep and ancient forests and its intrepid and rugged coast, we must also add, the mysterious charm of its rich and varied Mythology.

The rugged Cantabrian coast
The rugged Cantabrian coast

A Mythology, which has reached our days practically intact, thanks to the efforts of compiling meritorious countrymen, such as Constantino Cabal or Aureliano de Llano, who not only traveled a good part of the Cantabrian Coast in the difficult and romantic times of the late nineteenth century , collecting testimonies and legends of live voice narrated by the humble people of the most remote and unknown villages, but also, they collected and classified them for posterity, attending to the nature of the supernatural beings that star them.

Tagore: ’it is not the man who polishes the pebbles but the water with his music and his song’.
Tagore: 'it is not the man who polishes the pebbles but the water with his music and his song'.

Beings and nature, in short, which depending on the characteristics of their action and power over the peoples with whom they shared the environment, could be classified as gods of life and gods of death.

Bramadoiro or Buffoon
Bramadoiro or Buffoon

Behold, that between them, they make up a genuine Olympus, a relative, without any doubt, of those other Celtic Olympians of which they are partly heirs and in which, unlike other classical mythologies, they are the magical beings of the Nature who intervenes for or against men, depending, generally, on the respect or aggressiveness that he shows towards them.

Chimneys formed by erosion, turned into mythological Buffoons
Chimneys formed by erosion, turned into mythological Buffoons

Far from the typical Xanas or nymphs of the sources, from the mocking goblins or Diaños or even from the power to flood the crops, inherent in extraordinary beings, such as the stormy Nubero, the people of the coast, as well as the sailors, know, respect and they fear another type of supernatural supernatural being, whom they know, indistinctly as Bramadoiro or Buffoons.

Seagulls: the Buffoons’ messenger birds
Seagulls: the Buffoons' messenger birds

The buffoons or bramadoiros, are natural accidents, chimneys that the erosion of the sea has been forming during thousands of years continuously sculpting the coast - as the Hindu poet, Rabindranath Tagore warned, it is not the man who polishes the pebbles, but the water with its dance and its song- through which the wind and the sea sneak in, producing notable and dangerous geysers, always accompanied by a spectacular roar, a detail for which they are known as jesters.

Beautiful coves
Beautiful coves

There is an area in Castro Urdiales, close to Ostende beach, a brand new creation - a cove was used to convert it into a beach in the nineties of the last century - that is prolific in this type of phenomenon, although they are not so spectacular as in the area of ​​Pría de Llanes, in neighboring Asturias, where erosion has made chimneys, completely vertical, very similar to the famous geysers of Yellowstone National Park, in the United States.

Where to go scuba diving
Where to go scuba diving

But they are enough, I hope, for you to enjoy a small spectacle of natural mythology, which makes you see part of the rich and flowery ancient world, capable of creating poetry of the most common natural phenomena, to the point of turning them into a showy tradition.

A risky sport
A risky sport

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Well, a quiet cove can also be a death trap
Well, a quiet cove can also be a death trap

And you never know when the Buffoon will act
And you never know when the Buffoon will act


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I like cliffs, there looks a hole inside the cliffs maybe a cave. A beautiful place in the North of Spain.

True, a beautiful and interesting place in my country. Although as you can see, it is not worth trying to show interesting things that can serve as a guide and distraction to other travelers.

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