Pressenza Pressenza International Press Agency A Coruña, 07/10/09 The bagpipes, a wind instrument, will leave Fisterra (the mythical Finis Terrae, the end of the world to the ancient Romans) and Fran Gómez Pallas, racing driver from the Dakar Rally, will carry it.
It is being made by Patricia Cela, Galician craftswoman from the school of Antón Corral, who is donating her work to the World March. The bagpipes will accompany the Galician-Portuguese Base Team travelling through the towns and cities of Galicia and Portugal. In each place a bagpipe player will sound it. It will arrive in Madrid and will be handed over to the International Base Team so that it carries it along the global route and it sounds throughout the rest of the world.
On 2nd January it will arrive in Punta de Vacas, Argentina, where it will be played by a Galician emigrant. There in the Andes, at the foot of mount Aconcagua it will end its journey transmitting with its sound the song of the Galician soul for Peace and Non-Violence.
(Translation provided by Rhona Desmond)
