Os vellos
mercados teñen desaparecido, engulidos por un afán renovador que tan só busca eliminar
o pasado en aras do beneficio económico a curto prazo. Pero tamén se destrúen
as lembranzas dun pobo, a súa cultura e costumes. Os vellos mercados, como este
de Agolada en Pontevedra que milagrosamente foi salvado, eran lugares de
encontro para a poboación, non so espazos onde mercar e vender produtos. Eran
nodos de interconexión das realidades individuales das poboacións cuxos
habitantes acudían a eles, como un xeito de internet antiga onde a tradición
oral crecía e se difundían as tradicións e a cultura. Legado perdido para
sempre e irremplazable.
The old markets have disappeared, they
have devoured by an innovator zeal which only is searching destruction of
past in the interest of fast wealth, but also memories of specific people,
traditions and customs are being destroyed too. Old markets, as the present one
in Agolada (Pontevedra, Spain), which have survived miraculously were locations
where people met, not only spaces where people bought or sold things. They were
connection nodes of nearby towns like an ancient internet where oral tradition
grew and customs and culture were spread.
They are a lost and irreplaceable legacy.
