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Galicia is located in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula on the western edge of Europe, with an area of 29,575 km ². The climate is maritime maoritariamente. Rainfall combined with periods of sun, l that fosters wealth colorful landscape with a predominance of green.
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Santiago de Compostela - A Coruña Santiago's climate is typical of Atlantic Spain winters are wet, heavy rains, which continue, with greater or lesser extent, from September to June, rainy summers and less than in the rest of the Gaza coast. Manifest mild temperatures throughout the year, with an average of just under 8 ° in January, the coldest month and an annual average of 19 °. Umbrella or raincoat should therefore be part of the baggage. Santiago de Compostela, a city declared World Heritage by UNESCO, is located in northwestern Spain, in the province of A Coruña, on a hill surrounded polo Sar River and its tributary the Sarela. Santiago de Compostela is the result of a legend: the descubremiento in the year AD 813 of the tomb of the apostle James was beheaded in AD 44 in Palestine. King Alfonso II visited the site and ordered the building of a modest church and a convent, which was created around the city. Alfonso III builds the late ninth century the old cathedral, destroyed in 997 during the invasion of Muslim leader Al-Mansur, who completely razed the city. Santiago was rebuilt and surrounded by walls. In 1075, Bishop Diego Peláez begins work on the cathedral, which would continue under the able administration of Bishop Diego Xelmírez key figure in the extraction of Compostela. The eleventh and twelfth centuries representing the maximum height of the pilgrimage of Compostela, or Camino de Santiago is a very effective means of exchanging scientific, artistic and literary.
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This style pervades the historical city? Cathedral, convents and churches?, And Santiago gives the peculiar physiognomy which was even present. With a population of 105,000, to its traditional monumental, religious, commercial and university should be added as an important administrative center in 1982 to become the capital of the Autonomous Community of Galicia, and residence of the Junta (Regional Government), Parliament and other institutions of regional administration. Its location is privileged as communications are concerned, therefore occupies a central position among the most important centers of Galicia Urbans. Within a uniquely rural Galicia, Santiago became a major center of economic and cultural activity in the Middle Ages, remote crossroads of civilizations. The late twelfth century Maestro Mateo made the Portico de la Gloria. In the fourteenth century escomeza a murky period which lasts during the fifteenth century. Within a uniquely rural Galicia, Santiago became a major center of economic and cultural activity in the Middle Ages, remote crossroads of civilizations. At the end of the twelfth century the Maestro Mateo made the Portico de la Gloria. In the fourteenth century began a period that extends cloudy during the fifteenth century. The Renaissance comes to Compostela linked to the name of Archbishop Fonseca, founder of the University. www.caminosantiagobicitt.blogspot.com http://www.santiagoturismo.comhttp://www.santiagoturismo.com/
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The municipality of Cerceda is located northwest of Galicia in the province of A Coruña. Belonging to Ordes the region, is in the transition area between the lands of As Mariñas, Bergantiños and Ordes. Bordered on the north by the municipalities of A Laracha and Culleredo, south Tordoia Ordes and, on the east and west Carral. The county seat is in place for Antemil, formerly Villa del Campo de la Feria polo today known name of the City, which lies about 50 kilometers from Santiago de Compostela and about 30 of A Coruña, the two closest major cities.
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Cerceda history refers to the Celtic settlements. At present they are not easy to know because the farm work and the abundance of many distorted ways. Celtic presence test is a gold torqus found near the hill of Castelo, which currently is on display at the provincial museum of Lugo. Some of the Celtic customs, such as the sacred fire or a taste for the esoteric, seguen still keeping the dregs of our culture. The passage of the Romans only know some of the pottery found in a dig site a few miles. The Middle Ages, a period of manors, convents and forums, betrays little. IS the time when the foundation is construiron some of the oldest churches. The land now occupied Cerceda, shared between the vicariate of Soandres and Santiago. The population was appraised of the clergy. Tithes paid by the occupation of land and income completed with several newspapers to till the fields that directly exploited the convent. Even the Middle Ages there is no written record of the land Cerceda. When the division of Galicia in 1822, was included in the judicial district of Trastámara (Ordes), a fact confirmed by the division in 1934 and the district development plan of 1994 conducted by the Xunta de Galicia. The gazetteer-statistical and historical from Spain, made in 1850 by Pascual Mandoza, describe a city council consisting of 600 houses scattered, 2 schools and roads. The products of this population are living cerais, fruits vegetables, flax, grass and cattle and pigs.
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