O Milladoiro is a Spanish town located in the parish of Viduido, in the municipality of
Ames, in the province of
A Coruña,
Galicia
Galicia may refer to:
Geographic regions
* 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
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. It currently has 13,352 inhabitants.
Location
It is the most important nucleus of the municipality of
Ames, housing half of its inhabitants and is located just three kilometers from the center of
Santiago de Compostela. It limits with the villages of A Grela, Coira and Bentín. It also borders the municipality of
Teo in the lower part of Rosalía de Castro avenue.
Place name
There are several theories about the name of the town. The most common account is that the name recalls that it was the last town before reaching
Santiago along the Portuguese
Camino de Santiago
The Camino de Santiago ( la, Peregrinatio Compostellana, "Pilgrimage of Compostela"; gl, O Camiño de Santiago), known in English as the Way of St James, is a network of pilgrims' ways or pilgrimages leading to the shrine of the apostle Saint ...
. It was the place where the pilgrims humiliated themselves, knelt down, seeing the
cathedral for the first time, it was humiliated. And it was also an emblematic site.
Another theory warns about the possibility that O Milladoiro is a deformation of o miradoiro, which in the local language,
Galician, translates as the viewpoint. Due to its orography, O Milladoiro has a hill from which you can see the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela and a large part of the city. Hence the possible designation of viewpoint.
In addition, in Galicia a mound made up of small stones piled up over time by pilgrims and pilgrims heading to a religious sanctuary is called "milladoiro".
References
Populated places in the Province of A Coruña
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