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| Virgin of the Franqueira. Patroness of the the Franqueira (Pontevedra) and of Galicia
 Guest  2006/7/13 20:52
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| Extended is the known tradition that refers us the appearance of the image of the virgin of the Franqueira, whose source wants to remount to him, if it ignore to him the foundation, until the Vll. century an image that from remote times it was venerated for the native, whom the hid in the presence of the fear of the saracens, in a grotto in the high thing of the Paradanta, where it remained until an old woman that shepherded your cattles discovered some lights they signaled the elect place of the sacred image |
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| Shield of Galicia
Guest 2006/8/10 10:57
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| The Galicia shield appears describes in the law 5/1984, of May 29, law of the symbols of Galicia.The Faustino Menéndez -Pidal and Juan José Sánchez Badiola historians document it for first time in two |armoriales| of ends of the XIII century, the reap " Roll s and those of the Herault Vermandois, that the attribute to the king of Galicia. The first allocates you three expositions chalices, the second one only, cover. The romantic historian Manuel Murguía Galician theorize that your source can must to a speaking sign: calice=Galice. They refer to it also other later |armoriales| , as the “Armorial Gymnich” of Flanders, 1445, and the “Armorial Bergshanmar”, whose date compendium of 1436, in which it is gathered a few three thousand three hundred belonging shields to states and families of almost all Europe. There we can see “en the folio four verso... well stylized large goblet and by filling up the more possible the escudo” field. On the composition it is streaked the Galiscién word (Galicia).http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escudo_de_GaliciaShield of Galicia, extracted of Image:Flag of Galicia.svg] for Pedro A. Gracia meat pie. |
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| SADA, THE SWEET GALICIAN COAST
Guest 2006/8/27 9:00
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| Map of Galicia
Guest 2006/7/14 11:46
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| Flag of Galicia
Guest 2006/8/10 11:53
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| The Galicia flag sprouted during the inspired century XIX in the flag of the naval command of the coarse linen.During the century XIX it had a great flowing of Galician emigrants towards America. One of the main output ports of the emigration were the coarse linen. The tradition count that the Galician emigrants think that the flag of the naval command of coarse linen it waved in the port and in the transatlantic liners was truly the Galicia flag.http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandera_de_Galicia |
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