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Mondoñedo (43°26′00.36″N 7°21′23.48″W / 43.4334333°N
7.3565222°W / 43.4334333; -7.3565222)
is a small town and municipality in A
Mariña county in the Galician province of Lugo. As of 2002, the town has a population
of 4,987. Mondoñedo occupies a sheltered valley among the northern
outliers of the Cantabrian Mountains.
The town was declared a national cultural-historical site in
1985. Its main attraction is the three-nave cathedral, begun in Romanesque style around 1230.
It reflects an unusual mixture of styles: Gothic
in the naves, and Baroque in the its 18th century
towers. The polychrome
statue in the high altar, called Nuestra Señora la
Inglesa (the English Madonna) was rescued from the St. Paul
Cathedral in London during the
Protestant Reformation of Henry
VIII of England.
According to local tradition, the bishopric of Dumium, near Braga, was transferred to San Martinho de
Mondonhedo, 10 miles from Mondonhedo, in the 8th century; it was
brought to Mondoñedo itself in the beginning of the 12th century.
After having been for nearly a century and a half in the hands of
the Moors, Mondonhedo was
recaptured by Ordoño I of Asturias in 858; and
the Christian possession
was made permanent by Alfonso III of León in 870. It was
taken by surprise by the French in 1809 during the Napoleonic
Wars. The Galician Province of Mondoñedo disappeared
in 1833 when all the seven provinces of Galicia were reduced to
four, and the entire Province of Mondoñedo was first divided into
two halves and later absorbed and assimilated into the existing
provinces of Lugo and A Coruña.Originally the Mondonhedo province
was linked to the arrival in this part of Galicia of Celts-Briton
immigrants during the Dark
Ages period (c.V-VI) fleeing by sea from the British Isles
facing the Anglo-Saxon domination as it also happened
in Brittany.(see Bishop Mailoc, Britonia)
The Caves of King "Cintolo" ("Covas do Rei
Cintolo") are also located in the outskirts of the city of
Mondoñedo.
Sister
cities
These are the official sister cities of Mondoñedo:
Ferrol, Spain (2004)
See also
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 • Ancient lands of the Counts of
Andrade and Vilalba in the 14th
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