<p>Menhir stones erected along Galicia’s coast by contemporary Galician artist Manolo Paz hark back to Celtic times.</p><p>Read more in "Galicia, Untamed" in the June/July 2013 issue of&nbsp;<em>National Geographic Traveler.</em></p>

Totems of a Past Life

Menhir stones erected along Galicia’s coast by contemporary Galician artist Manolo Paz hark back to Celtic times.

Read more in "Galicia, Untamed" in the June/July 2013 issue of National Geographic Traveler.

Photograph by Jim Richardson

Galicia, Spain

Scenes from Spain's rugged northwestern coast

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