Santiago de Compostela

Santiago de Compostela is the capital of the autonomous community of Galicia, in northwestern Spain. The city has its beginning inside the shrine of Saint James the Great, now the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, as the vacation spot of the Way of St. James, a main Catholic pilgrimage direction since the 9th century. In 1985, the town's Old Town became detailed a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The region of Santiago de Compostela become a Roman cemetery by means of the 4th century and was occupied via the Suebi within the early fifth century, when they settled in Galicia and Portugal for the duration of the preliminary disintegrate of the Roman Empire. The location become later attributed to the bishopric of Iria Flavia in the sixth century, inside the partition generally referred to as Parochiale Suevorum, ordered through King Theodemar.

In 585, the settlement turned into annexed along with the relaxation of Suebi Kingdom with the aid of Leovigild as the 6th province of the Visigothic Kingdom. Santiago's economic system, despite the fact that nonetheless heavily dependent on public management i.e. Being the headquarters of the self sustaining authorities of Galicia, cultural tourism, enterprise, and better education thru its college, is turning into more and more assorted.