Portas Do Cerco Station
Portas is a municipality in Galicia, Spain in the province of Pontevedra. Parroquias It is made up of four parroquias (parishes): * Briallos (San Cristóbal) * Lantaño (San Pedro) * Portas (Santa María) * Romay (San Julián), home to the Romay fortress in Tras do Rio, an ancestral seat of the House of Romay The Romay family (Spanish: ''Casa de Romay'') is a Spanish aristocratic family that descends from 8th-century pre-Reconquista Galicia, in northern Spain. According to historians, the family descends from Román de Romae, Count of Monterroso and .... References Municipalities in the Province of Pontevedra {{Galicia-geo-stub ...
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Galicia (Spain)
Galicia (; gl, Galicia or ; es, Galicia}; pt, Galiza) is an autonomous community of Spain and historic nationality under Spanish law. Located in the northwest Iberian Peninsula, it includes the provinces of A Coruña, Lugo, Ourense, and Pontevedra. Galicia is located in Atlantic Europe. It is bordered by Portugal to the south, the Spanish autonomous communities of Castile and León and Asturias to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and the Cantabrian Sea to the north. It had a population of 2,701,743 in 2018 and a total area of . Galicia has over of coastline, including its offshore islands and islets, among them Cíes Islands, Ons, Sálvora, Cortegada Island, which together form the Atlantic Islands of Galicia National Park, and the largest and most populated, A Illa de Arousa. The area now called Galicia was first inhabited by humans during the Middle Paleolithic period, and takes its name from the Gallaeci, the Celtic people living north of the Douro Rive ...
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