open mike,

also, the claims by groups like llan de Cubel are another thing. Sort of secondarily inspired by Galicia's success in marketing itself as tourist destination based on its "Celticness," several other regions of Spain have been trying the same thing, Asturias (or Asturies in the native, supposedly "Celtic" tongue) being the most prominent. As Adlopho points out above, Cantabria has been making the same claim lately.

But heed Adolpho's words, for he knows whereof he speaks:

Celticness as such is moving a lot of money, and Galicia is very aware of that, the same as Asturias, Cantabria and some other Spanish areas. People there are no more Celtic than people from the rest of Spain, there's no trace of a possible Celtic language and, as a person who has travelled up and down the miles of Galicia, and walked the Way to Santiago de Compostela several times, people there are exactly the same as the ones you can meet anywhere in the Peninsula.