Chat in Astorga

Astorga is a municipality and city of Spain located in the central area of ​​the province of León, in the autonomous community of Castilla y León. It is located in the transit between the Páramo Leonés and the mountains of León and acts as the backbone of the districts of La Maragatería, La Cepeda and the Ribera del Órbigo. The city is the head of one of the most extensive and oldest dioceses in Spain, whose jurisdiction covers half of the province of León and part of those of Orense and Zamora, and is also the head of judicial party number 5 in the province of León.

Born as a Roman military camp of the Legio X Gemina at the end of the 1st century BC. C., shortly after it became a civil settlement and was the capital of the Conventus Asturum. It developed as an important hub of communications in the peninsular northwest and enjoyed some prosperity in the first two centuries of our era thanks to gold mining, being defined by Pliny the Elder as magnificent vrbs. In the middle years of the third century it had to It was part of the kingdom of the Swabians after the barbarian invasions and in 714 it was taken by the Muslim troops of Táriq, although it would be reconquered by the Asturian monarchy in the middle of the same century.

At the end of the tenth century he suffered again, on three occasions, the Muslim harassment of the hand of Almanzor. From the eleventh century, and thanks to the impulse given by the Camino de Santiago, the city experienced a progressive development in which the Church played a leading role. In 1465 Enrique IV de Castilla granted Álvaro Pérez Osorio, Count of Trastámara, Lord of Villalobos and Castroverde, the title of Marquis of Astorga, for which the city went from the free state to a feudatory condition. The city suffered the consequences of the French occupation and was one of the first cities that rose up against the French, with the mutiny of peasants and day laborers on May 2,1808. The French army entered the city on December 31st.

Same year and during the following years the plaza changed hands on several occasions until finally the French capitulated on August 17,1812. Between the mid-nineteenth century and the early twentieth there was an important industrial development, in which they played a role The arrival of the railroad and the rise of the chocolate industry are fundamental, and it continues to be active together with other branches of the food industry, such as pastry and the meat industry, although the economic activity of the municipality is based mainly on the services sector, with administration, commerce and cultural tourism as the most outstanding sectors.

The latter is mainly based on its historical-artistic heritage, which includes the Cathedral, the Episcopal Palace, the Town Hall and the Roman Ergastula, all of them declared of Cultural Interest, as well as being a place of passage for the Way of Saint James and one of the headwaters of the Vía de la Plata. The most representative celebrations are the carnival - the first weekend after Ash Wednesday -, Holy Week - declared of National Tourist Interest -, the festival of Astures and Romans - declared of Regional Tourist Interest - and, in a way discontinuous, the procession of the Zuiza in honor of the flag of Clavijo and the procession of the Virgin of Castrotierra, brought in years of drought from its sanctuary located 17 kilometers from the city.

In 2015, in the approval by Unesco of the extension of the Camino de Santiago in Spain to "Roads of Santiago de Compostela: French Road and Northern Roads of Spain", Spain sent as documentation a "Retrospective Inventory - Associated Elements" in the that in No.1708 Astorga figure with a set of associated elements.

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