Lugo - Catedral de Santa María

Lugo, today a city with a population of about 100.000, claims to be the oldest city in Galicia. Its founding dates back to the expansionist policies of the Romans during the time of Emperor Augustus. Among other things, this aimed to permanently pacify the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula. Paullus Fabius Maximus founded 14–13 BC. BC in the name of his emperor, the place Lucus Augusti on the site of a building dating back to around 25 BC. BC existing military camp.

It is the only city in the world surrounded by completely intact Roman walls. The wall is between six and eight meters thick, around twelve meters high at the highest point and has 85, mostly semicircular towers. In Roman times the wall had five gates and today it has ten.

A predecessor church existed on the site in 755. In 1129, Bishop Petro III commissioned the local architect Raimund to build a new church in the current Romanesque style, which was completed in 1273. Later renovations and restorations added elements in other styles.

Detail of a side portal