O carallo 29 - Santiago de Compostela, A coruña, Galicia, España
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Ariberna
N 42° 52.859 W 008° 32.469
29T E 537472 N 4747699
The origin of popular expresion.
Waymark Code: WM1AZRR
Location: Galicia, Spain
Date Posted: 11/05/2024
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"The other night I went out for a walk with my friends and one of them, who is French but speaks a little Galician, asked, “What is this “do carallo vintenove” ?” It’s a very common expression in Galicia, Roberto replied, it’s a way of ending a conversation when you can’t agree with the other person, like saying “ yes, whatever you want… ”, although it’s also used as an expression of skepticism, we all know the wealth of nuances in the Galician language.
This phrase, so popular among us, has its origins in the times of the Bourbon Restoration.
It refers to article 29 of the electoral law, which automatically proclaimed a candidate as the winner of the elections when he was the only one standing in a district. It seems that fraud and trickery were common at the time to prevent the presentation of rival candidates and to apply the aforementioned article. This is the reason why Galicians, especially Republicans, who experienced the caciquism of the time first-hand, baptized the article with the expression o carallo vintenove , showing the distrust that the electoral process produced in them. Many, like my French friend, had heard the expression, did not know its meaning but what they could least imagine is that “ o carallo vintenove ” exists in reality.
It is located in Santiago, at the intersection of Rúa Travesa and Rúa de San Bieito . Rúa Travesa ends its numbering at number 27, then we find a milestone of about one meter in height, already on Rúa San Bieito , with a shape similar to a penis that, if the numbering of Rúa Travesa continued, would have the number 29."
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