Astorga

Astorga is a municipality and metropolis of Spain positioned inside the critical location of the province of Leon, inside the self sufficient network of Castilla Leon, 43 kilometres southwest of the provincial capital. It is placed in the transit among the Paramo Leones and the mountains of Leon and acts because the spine of the shires of Maragateria, La Cepeda and the Ribera del Orbigo. The town is the top of one of the most tremendous and antique dioceses of Spain, whose jurisdiction covers half of of the province of Leon and a part of Ourense and Zamora. You can come here and explore this place.

It is likewise head of the judicial birthday celebration variety five of the province of Leon. Astorga lies within the vicinity of the Maragatos, a small ethnic and cultural community with exclusive customs and architecture. The city lies on the junction of the French route, the maximum popular course and Vía de la Plata path, an alternative course of the Way of St. James. Saint Turibius of Astorga was bishop of the metropolis within the 5th century. The timeline of Galician records that includes Astorga has artifactual proof stretching again over 200,000 years, predating the Paleolithic.