Monforte de Lemos

Monforte de Lemos municipality
coat of arms	Map of Spain
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Galicia
Province :	Lugo
Comarca :	Terra de Lemos
Coordinates	42 ° 31 ′  N , 7 ° 31 ′  W Coordinates: 42 ° 31 ′  N , 7 ° 31 ′  W
Height :	360  msnm
Area :	199.5 km²
Residents :	18,433 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density :	92.4 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	E-27400
Municipality number  ( INE ):	27031
administration
Mayor :	Severino Rodríguez Díaz ( BNG )
Website :	www.concellodemonforte.com
Location of the municipality

Monforte de Lemos is a Spanish city in the province of Lugo in the Galicia region , about 45 km northeast of Ourense . The city is located on the Cabe River , a tributary of the Sil .

View across the river Cabe to the castle of Monforte

Attractions

Jesuit college in Monforte de Lemos

The small town, which has been populated almost completely since the Bronze Age, has a number of significant architectural monuments. These include the monastery of San Vicente do Pino with its cloister and classicist facade, the palace of the Counts of Lemos and the fortress Castelo de Monforte with its 14th century, 30 m high defense tower Torre da Homenaxe . This also includes the Colegio de Nuestra Señora la Antigua (also Colegio de la Compañía or Colegio del Cardenal ) of the Jesuit order , which was built in the so-called Herrera style . In addition to various works of art, it also contains two paintings by El Greco and a reredos by Francisco de Moure . Numerous important sacred objects ( monstrances , crucifixes , processional crosses, etc.) are also kept in the Santa Clara monastery . There are also sculptures there, including a Resting Christ, a work by Gregorio Hernández . In the monastery of San Jacinto you can hear one of the best organs in Galicia in the church. A Parador has been set up in the monastery building .

Population development of the municipality

Source: INE archive - graphic processing for Wikipedia

sons and daughters of the town

• Inês de Castro (1320–1355), noblewoman, wife of the Portuguese  King  Peter I.
• Pedro Antonio Fernández de Castro (1632–1672), Viceroy of Peru
• Amadeu González Ferreiros (1911–1995), Roman Catholic religious priest, prelate of São Raimundo Nonato in Brazil
• Roberto González Fernández (1948), Spanish painter
• José Diego Álvarez (* 1954), former Spanish football player
• Lois Pereiro (1958–1996), Galician poet, writer
• Carmen Cardelle de Hartmann (* 1963), Spanish-German philologist
• Saleta Fernández (* 1997), track and field athlete

Web links

Commons : Monforte de Lemos  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cifras oficiales de población resultantes de la revisión del Padrón municipal a 1 de enero . Population statistics from the Instituto Nacional de Estadística (population update).