By Julia Altsjö, Nathalie Josefsson, Rasmus Flink
Two official languages, 100 rainy days and a special cheese, those are only some of the things typical of Galicia.
Galicia is a region in the north west of Spain. The name Galicia comes from the Latin name Gallaecia. Before the roman invasion multiple tribes lived in the area. During year 800 and 900 Galician greaves had variated power and the coasts did often get attacked by Normands and Vikings. They build the towers in Catoira to protect Santiago de Compostela from the attacks. When general Fransisco Franco died Galicia became a democracy again.
They talk Galician and Spanish in this part of the country. For more than 400 centuries, Spanish has been the official language. But Galician has also become the official language of Galicia and is as well as the Spanish being taught in the schools. The population of Galicia have different thoughts about if the Galician language should be preserved.
Santiago de Compostela has over 100 days with rain per year. Galicia takes 5,8 % of the total area of Spain. In 2012 the population of Galicia was 2,781 million habitants.
Vigo, Pontevedra,Lugo, Ferrol, A Coruña, Ourense and Santiago de Compostela are the biggest cities. Santiago de Compostela is the capital of the region and it is famous for the pilgrimage. The Apostel Jacob is supposed to be buried there.
The Galician food consists mostly of fish and seafood. Two of the most popular dishes are empanadas and octopus. Galician also has a local cheese which is white and triangular and is called Tetilla.
After the Middle Ages a special Galician literature grew. Important contribution to the roman music on Galician-Portuguese was
created. And the most famous of them were made by the troubadour Martín Codax and by Alfonso X who is also called El Sabio which means the wise. Galician-Portuguese was considered to be the love poems language in the Iberian-Romance language culture.
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