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UNESCO World Heritage Site

Knowth, in Irish Cnobha, is a place where there are Neolithic tombs. Knowth is one of the ancient monuments of Brú na Bóinne, which is situated to the north of Dublin. It's an amazing place because not only is it a UNESCO World Heritage Site, but also because the tombs were built thousands of years ago, with reasons that still aren't very well understood, complete with symbols, and a deep knowledge of astronomy or the operation of the sun and stars. That's because this place is intended to let the sun at a particular time of year and other details that scientists have gone to great pains to explain, considering improvements in the "technology" of the time.

Knowth is the most spread out of the three sites there that are open to the public. But it's not like Newgrange, where you get to see inside the tombs. What you see are the tombs, small stone mounds covered with grass, and imagine how they were connected to each other so that the priests or druids could pass from one to another and make their funeral rites. Newgrange I liked because you can go in and actually see what is the Neolithic tomb.
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Thousands of years ago ...

Hace miles de años...

Bueno, pues la idea no era visitar Knowth, sino Newgrange, puesto que habíamos oído hablar mucho de la importancia y belleza del lugar. Pero quiso el destino que el número de visitantes para ese día hubiera llegado a su límite, y que encima la hora de visita del monumento ya había pasado. Así que en un principio nos resignamos a no visitar ninguno de los yacimientos del conjunto de Brú na Bóinne, pero una vocecita que venía del pasado nos dirigió al precioso centro de visitantes y una vez más, armados con la tarjeta Heritage, nos arriesgamos a visitar Knowth en su última excursión del día. Hay que tener en cuenta que la mayoría de estos conjuntos neolíticos se encuentran en terrenos privados, por lo que sólo se puede acceder a ellos desde el centro de visitantes y en unos pequeños autobuses que nos llevan hasta la puerta de cada recinto. Una vez nos bajamos de los antiguos vehículos, un guía ( que normalmente forma parte del equipo de investigación o conservación) nos da una extensa e instructiva charla sobre lo que vamos a ver. Primero desde el punto de vista histórico, y luego desde el arquitectónico, llegando a entrar unos cuantos metros dentro del túmulo. Quizá Knowth no sea el más conocido entre los sitios que forman el conjunto, pero si que es el más importante, ya que las diversas capas que han encontrado los arqueólogos demuestran que estuvo habitado desde el 2.500 antes de Cristo e incluso se construyó un castillo normando en su cima. Y es que hay sitio suficiente, ya que el túmulo es enorme, con dos corredores de hasta 40 metros de largo y 17 tumbas que lo rodean. Esos corredores reciben la primera y la última luz de los equinoccios, ya que están orientados de manera estratégica para cumplir con los rituales neolíticos de culto solar. Según vamos rodeando el gigantesco túmulo ( es tan grande que no pude hacer una foto en la que saliera entero) vemos enormes piedras en su base con grabados espirales que según han ido descubriendo podrían ser mapas estelares o algún tipo de calendarios solares para la cosecha. Para finalizar entramos en el túmulo, apenas unos metros pero que nos dan una idea del tamaño del mismo y luego a la cima, desde donde podíamos ver el valle desde nuestro privilegiado e histórico mirador.
Well, the idea was not to visit Knowth, Newgrange but since habamos odo lot about the importance and beauty. But fate decreed that the number of visitors for that day had reached its limit, and over time visiting the monument had already passed. As that initially we resign ourselves to not visit any of the sites in the whole of Br na Binne, but a little voice vein last headed us the beautiful visitor center and once again, armed with the Heritage card, took a chance to visit Knowth in his last excursion of the day. Keep in mind that most of these neolticos sets are on private land, so only you can access them from the visitor center and in a pequeos buses that take us to the door of each room. Once we got off of the old vehicles a guide (which is normally part of the research team or conservation) gives an extensive and informative talk about what we will see. First from the point of historical view, and then from the architectural, arriving to enter a few meters inside the tmulo. Quiz Knowth not the most known among the sites that form the set, but if that is the most important since the various layers found by archeologists show that was inhabited from 2500 BC and even a Norman castle was constructed at its peak. And there enough room because the tmulo is huge, with two runners up to 40 meters long and 17 tombs surrounding it. These corridors are the first and the last light of the equinoxes, and who are oriented strategic way to meet neolticos solar cult rituals. According Let surrounding the gigantic tmulo (is so great that I could not take a picture in which leave whole) we see huge stones at its base with spirals engravings according have been discovered will be able to be star maps or some type of solar calendars for harvest. Finally we entered the tmulo, just a few meters but give us an idea of ​​the size of it and then to the top where we can see the valley from our privileged and historical viewpoint.
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