OPHIUSA,

Land of the Serpents

Galacia, Lusitania, Al Gharb,       - Algarve - غرب الأندلس

Visigoths, Moroccan Pirates,

Traders, Caliphs, Navigators,

and seafaring forebears of the Gaelic Irish.

Eurasian and African tectonic plates

 converge at 5 mm/year 

precursing Man’s closing gap along the Azores’ seismic fault-line:

implying mythic, paleo-historic  Atlantean connections

with neolithic roots.  

Land of 

Cork forests, standing stones and maritime adventuring:

traditionally, wild pig and

goat-foraging landscapes

to this day,

admixed with lucrative holiday industries -

climate and immigration permitting.