Sarria

Sarria is a municipality inside the province of Lugo, northwestern Spain, inside the self reliant network of Galicia. Sarria is the most densely populated metropolis on the French Way in Galicia, with 13,700 population. It is head of the place and a famous start line for the Camino de Santiago; many pilgrims select Sarria because the gap from this point to Santiago permits them to cover the vital kilometers to reach the Compostela. King Alfonso IX of Leon died in Sarria in 1230 even as creating a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela.

Sarria additionally represents the factor of access to the lovely landscapes, together with Os Ancares and O Courel, east of Galicia. Sarria has a rich artistic history in the main characterized via church buildings, which can be essential to the Way of St. James. Sarria's inventive historical past consists of the early-Gothic, 13th-century church, O Salvador, that is positioned on Rua Maior. In this metropolis, from its unusual rua Maior, it's miles possible to look the only tower that stays of the medieval citadel belonging to the city.

Around this tower, a popular honest is held three instances a month to showcase the conventional products of the vicinity. From its medieval past, Sarria conserves the Convent of A Madalena, presently belonging to the Mercedarian Fathers, founded at the start of the thirteenth century as a pilgrim hospital by Italian clergymen of the Order of the Blessed Martyrs of Jesus, who were additionally pilgrims.