Pikes on Cliffs is the name of a small rural house, located on the most northern coast of Estaca de Bares in Spain. The small construction includes a blacksmith shop and a well.
According to the legend, this is the place were Irish sailor William Simms lived in the 16th century. Simms was able to reach the coast after he was condemned to die by drowning by Sir Francis Drake. The legend says that every year, at the beginning of spring, his spirit can be seen on a rock from which he hopes to see the pikes that gave him fortune.
Famous quotes containing the words pikes and/or cliffs:
“Though lads are making pikes again
For some conspiracy,
And crazy rascals rage their fill
At human tyranny;
My contemplations are of Time....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“So there stood Matthew Arnold and this girl
With the cliffs of England crumbling away behind them,
And he said to her, “Try to be true to me,
And I’ll do the same for you, for things are bad
All over, etc., etc.””
—Anthony Hecht (b. 1923)