La colonización de las islas e islotes del litoral vasco: atalayeros, militares y eremitas.

Erkoreka, Anton

Publication year:

1997

Publication place:

Donostia-San Sebastián

ISSN:

1137-439X

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Summary

From the Middle Ages to the present day, these islands have indicated municipal limits ; they have been used as watchtowers to facilitate fishing tasks ; they have been fortified to repulse assaults from the high seas and they have had a clear religious role, hermitages and even Franciscan convents being built in some of the islands. The humanization of the wildest enclaves off the Basque coast was a task carried out by some of the hardest and most difficult activities: fishing, soldiering and hermitages