Samos (Galicia)

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Samos municipality
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Samos (Galicia) (Spain)
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Basic data
Autonomous Community : GaliciaGalicia Galicia
Province : Lugo
Comarca : Sarria
Coordinates 42 ° 44 ′  N , 7 ° 20 ′  W Coordinates: 42 ° 44 ′  N , 7 ° 20 ′  W
Height : 647  msnm
Area : 137 km²
Residents : 1,278 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density : 9.33 inhabitants / km²
Postal code : 27620
Municipality number  ( INE ): 27055
administration
Website : www.concellodesamos.com
Location of the municipality
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Samos is a place on the Way of St. James in the province of Lugo in the autonomous community of Galicia .

history

San Xulián de Samos Monastery

Samos' history is closely connected to the monastery because the place around the monastery of San Xulián y Basilisa de Samos was built. Its foundation is said to go back to Martin von Braga , who drove the departure from Arianism in the Visigothic epoch of the Iberian peninsula . The name Samos comes from Samanos, which possibly referred to a place that was inhabited by a religious community. Around 714 the monastery was briefly abandoned until Fruela I appointed Arxerico as abbot. The later King Alfonso the Chaste grew up here and hid here from the murder plans of his uncle Mauregato after the murder of his father Fruela I in 768 .

The monastery was enlarged several times, especially after Pope Alexander III. 1175 in a bull granted rights to 105 churches throughout the kingdom.

During the Spanish War of Independence against Napoleon at the beginning of the 19th century, the monastery served as a hospital . The monastery was expropriated and abandoned by the monks following the decrees of disarmortation by Juan Álvarez Mendizábal . They returned in 1880.

In 1951, large parts of the monastery burned down when a tank full of alcohol caught fire while distilling schnapps . After the reconstruction, the wall paintings in the cloister were created in 1957, which show the life of Saint Benedict .

Population development of the municipality

Source: INE archive - graphic processing for Wikipedia

Attractions

  • Monastery of San Xulián y Basilisa de Samos, monastery complex in the Renaissance and Baroque styles
  • Capilla del Salvador / Capilla del Ciprés, Savior or Cypress Chapel, 9. – 10. Century, originally located on the walled area of ​​the monastery, a Mozarabic chapel in the shade of an almost thousand-year-old cypress tree

Festivals

literature

  • Míllan Bravo Lozano: Practical pilgrim guide. The Camino de Santiago. Editorial Everest, Léon 1994, ISBN 84-241-3835-X .
  • Ulrich Wegner: The Spanish Way of St. James . Dumont Reiseverlag, Cologne 1995, ISBN 3-7701-3415-X .

Web links

Commons : Samos (Galicia)  - 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).
  2. ↑ a b Cordula Rabe: Spanischer Jakobsweg, 3rd edition 2007, p. 159
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