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Galicia was late to catch the tourism boom that has swept Spain in recent decades, but the coastal regions (especially the Rías Baixas and Santiago de Compostela) are now significant tourist destinations and are especially popular with visitors from other regions in Spain, where the majority of tourists come from. In 2007, 5.7 million tourists ...
From 1990 to 2005, the region's government and parliament, the Xunta de Galicia was presided over by the Partido Popular ('People's Party', Spain's main national conservative party) under Manuel Fraga, a former minister and ambassador in the Francoist government. However, in the 2005 Galician elections, the People's Party lost its overall ...
Galicia, also known by its variant name Galizia [1] (/ ɡ ə ˈ l ɪ ʃ (i) ə / gə-LISH-(ee-)ə; [2] Polish: Galicja, IPA: [ɡaˈlit͡sja] ⓘ; Ukrainian: Галичина, romanized: Halychyna, IPA: [ɦɐlɪtʃɪˈnɑ]; Yiddish: גאַליציע, romanized: Galitsye; see below), is a historical and geographic region spanning what is now southeastern Poland and western Ukraine, long part of ...
Rank Name Population (2020) [1] 1 Vigo: 296,692 2 A Coruña: 247,604 3 Ourense: 105,643 4 Lugo: 98,519 5 Santiago de Compostela: 97,848 6 Pontevedra: 83,260 7
Galicia (Spain), a region and autonomous community of northwestern Spain Gallaecia, a Roman province; The post-Roman Kingdom of the Suebi, also called the Kingdom of Gallaecia; The medieval Kingdom of Galicia; The Republic of Galicia, which only lasted for a few hours on 27 June 1931
Santiago de Compostela, [a] simply Santiago, or Compostela, [3] in the province of A Coruña, is the capital of the autonomous community of Galicia, in northwestern Spain.The city has its origin in the shrine of Saint James the Great, now the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, as the destination of the Way of St. James, a leading Catholic pilgrimage route since the 9th century. [4]
As a Celtic region of Spain, Galicia has a tartan called Galicia National. [121] During the late 19th and early 20th century this revival permeated Galician society: in 1916 Os Pinos, a poem by Eduardo Pondal, was chosen as the lyrics for the new Galician hymn.
León, a historical kingdom and historical region of Spain, once joined to Old Castile to form Castile and León, was denied secession to be constituted as an autonomous community on its own right. [43] During the second half of the 1980s, the central government seemed reluctant to transfer all powers to the "slow route" communities. [20]