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2018 Praia de Pantín. Galiza-3

Beach of Pantín, Valdoviño, Galicia (Spain). This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.

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2018 Praia de Pantín. Galiza-3

Beach of Pantín, Valdoviño, Galicia (Spain). This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.

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Beach of Pantín, Valdoviño, Galicia (Spain)
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The Archive of Days presentsBeta

BEFORE MODERN SPORT

Pantín

How work, access and surfing shaped Pantín.

Scroll to follow the shoreline through time

The Ferrolterra Pantin Classic is an international surf competition which gathers in a yearly basis all the most remarkable figures in the world of surf, fun, body board and windsurfing at the beach of Pantin in Valdoviño, Ferrolterra, north-western Spain.

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1747

Work at the water’s edge

The saying says, that the sailor Eduardo arrived to the bay in 1747 by sailboat and settled together with his wife.

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ACCESS CHANGES

The shore becomes reachable

The surviving overview does not identify one decisive access date for Pantín.

This edition therefore leaves that date open rather than turning gradual change into a false single event.

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Praia de Pantín en Valdoviño
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Praia de Pantín en Valdoviño. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.

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Pantín Classic Pro surf Valdoviño

Praia de Pantín en Valdoviño. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.

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2006

Surfing reads the same coast differently

Note: From 2006 the Beach of Doniños will be hosting the “European Junior Surfing Championships Doninhos (City of Ferrol)” which will be gathering, on a yearly basis, some of the best surfers from the European Union and the rest of the world.

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THE LIVING MAP

The mapped place

Pantín is recorded at 43.608° N, 8.116° W. A surf map fixes a name to one stretch of moving water, but the place changes with tide, swell direction, wind and the shape of the seabed.

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2018 Praia de Pantín. Galiza-3

Beach of Pantín, Valdoviño, Galicia (Spain). This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.

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Beach of Pantín, Valdoviño, Galicia (Spain)
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original
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Open-licence photograph
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2018 Praia de Pantín. Galiza-3

Beach of Pantín, Valdoviño, Galicia (Spain). This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.

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Beach of Pantín, Valdoviño, Galicia (Spain)
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TODAY

Pantín now

The Galician Upper Rias, Ferrol Region and Province of A Coruña in North-western Spain Ferrol, WikiMapia (in Spanish) Official website of the Ferrolterra Pantin Classic (in Spanish) Official Body Board News website (in English) The Ferrolterra Pantin Classic at SurfersVillage.com (in English) Surf news of pantín at Pantinsurfcamp.com

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THE LEDGER

Sources and credits

This exhibition is built from local, institutional and sporting records. The source ledger keeps the claims visible and leaves space for correction as further local evidence emerges.

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Artefacts in order of appearance

  • 2018 Praia de Pantín. Galiza-3

    AOD.EU.PANTIN.V00 · original · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

  • Pantín Classic Pro surf Valdoviño

    AOD.EU.PANTIN.V01 · original · Wikimedia Commons · CC0

Editorial record

Full European Beta edition. Place evidence is adapted from the linked The Ferrolterra Pantin Classic overview under CC BY-SA 4.0 and remains subject to named historical and local review. Cartography is generated from the PeakWave location catalogue.