2889 SPAIN (Galicia) - Galician traditional clothes

Located in the North-West corner of the Iberian Peninsula, Galicia is one of three autonomous regions in Spain that have their own official languages (Gallego) in addition to Castilian Spanish, the national language. The Galicians are descended from Spain's second wave of Celtic invaders (from the British Isles and western Europe) who came across the Pyrenees mountains in about 400 BC. The Romans, arriving in the second century BC, gave the Galicians their name, derived from the Latin gallaeci.

1084 SPAIN (Galicia) - Tower of Hercules (UNESCO WHS)

Located on a promontory in the entrance of an estuary in a large gulf (the Portus Magnus Artabrorum of the classical geographers) on the Atlantic Ocean, A Coruña served as political capital of the Kingdom of Galicia from the 16th to the 19th centuries, and as a regional administrative centre between 1833 and 1982, before being replaced by Santiago de Compostela. The city is the site of the Roman Tower of Hercules, a lighthouse which has been in continuous operation since possibly the 2nd century AD.

0360 SPAIN (Galicia) - Santiago de Compostela (Old Town) (UNESCO WHS)

¡Santiago y cierra, España! cried the reunited armies of Alfonso VIII of Castile, Sancho VII of Navarre, Pedro II of Aragon and Afonso II of Portugal in the Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa, which took place on 16 July 1212. That means "Saint James and strike for Spain!". And because in that battle the Christians massacred the Moors, Spaniards will continue to use this battle cry not only how long it lasted Reconquista, but by the end of the Spanish Empire. Invocation of Santiago (the local Galician evolution of Vulgar Latin Sanctu Iacobu - Saint James), wasn't accidental, because he was already patron saint of Spain, and appeared during the Battle of Clavijo (844) to fight for the Christian army. Since then was called Matamoros (Moorslayer). Oddly enough for an apostle of Jesus, I would dare to say.