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Lugo
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Bimillennial city
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More than 2,000 years ago, Caesar Augustus turned into a city a small town that worshipped the God Lugh.
As he was satisfied with his work, he gave the new city his own name of 'the living God of the Romans'.
From that moment, that was the name of the capital of the Roman land at the end of the world:
Lucus Augusti, LUGO. |
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The first settlement in Lugo appeared -perhaps in the middle of a forest- in this meseta that dominates
the setting and the Valley of the river Miño. Looking from all the cardinal points, Lugo appears on the top... in the North-Northeast when coming from Ribadeo... in the Northwest from A Coruña...
in the Southwest from Santiago... in the Southeast from Madrid...
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Giménez Caballero said: those who know Lugo with our spirit eyes, we know that it is one of the most thrilling
and amazing benchmarks in Spain.
We are going to watch Lugo with those spirit eyes... |
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We must especially mention the Park that is dedicated to Rosalía de Castro. By entering the park we can see the statue melt in Sargadelos, which lay before at the Main Square.
The pergola in this park is a wonderful viewpoint over the river Miño that crosses the city. |
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Lugo has become a modern and vigorous cultural city because people from Lugo long for wisdom.
In spite of having been invaded by Swabians and Goths in the fifth century and devastated by Arabs in
the eighth and Normans in the ninth, Lugo still preserves the important traces of the Romans that recall
the glorious past.
Although it is a bit far away from the city, we will start with the monument of St Eulalia de Bóveda. |
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Next to the parish church, on a low level, we find the monument, whose origin is unknown even nowadays.
It was buried over 1,000 years. It may have been a Visigoth baptistery but before that...
perhaps a temple?... the swimming pool of a Roman village?... the tomb of Prisciliano?... St Eulalia de Bóveda shows the curious person and even the wise the whole mystery of an unsolvable enigma. |
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