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Historic Sites Attractions In Province of Lugo

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Lugo is a province of northwestern Spain, in the northeastern part of the autonomous community of Galicia. It is bordered by the provinces of Ourense, Pontevedra, and A Coruña, the principality of Asturias, the State of León, and in the north by the Cantabrian Sea . The population is 356,595 , of whom a quarter live in the capital Lugo. The capital city was an ancient Celtic settlement named in honour of the god Lugh , later Latinised as Lucus Augusti, and which became one of the three main important Galician-Roman centres alongside Braccara Augusta and Asturica Augusta . The province has 67 municipalities.
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  • 1. Castro de Viladonga Lugo
    Castro culture is the archaeological term for the material culture of the north-western regions of the Iberian Peninsula from the end of the Bronze Age until it was subsumed by Roman culture . It is the culture associated with the Celtiberians, closely associated to the western Hallstatt horizon of Central Europe. The most notable characteristics of this culture are: its walled oppida and hill forts, known locally as castros, from Latin castrum castle, and the scarcity of visible burial practices, in spite of the frequent depositions of prestige items and goods, swords and other metallic riches in rocky outcrops, rivers and other aquatic contexts since the Atlantic Bronze Age. This cultural area extended east to the Cares river and south into the lower Douro river valley. The area of Ave V...
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  • 2. El Monasterio de San Salvador Lugo
    Antonio M. Ruíz , was a Mexican fine art painter and scenic designer otherwise known by his childhood nickname El Corzo or El Corcito which came about due to his resemblance to a popular Spanish bullfighter or torero.
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  • 4. Torre de Sarria Sarria
    Les Tres Torres is a residential neighbourhood in the inland Sarrià-Sant Gervasi district of Barcelona, Catalonia .
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  • 7. Castrillo de los Polvazares Castrillo De Los Polvazares
    Castrillo de los Polvazares is a village situated in Leon, in North-west of Spain. It is part of the municipality of Astorga. It's important due to its history, as one of the few places of the “Maragatería” which still keeps its traditions and was one of the main resistances against the French conquests.
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