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LUGO , See also:

capital of the above See also:Spanish See also:province, is situated on the See also:left See also:bank of the See also:river Mino and on the railway from See also:Corunna to See also:Madrid. Pop. (Igoo) 26,959. Lugo is an episcopal see, and was formerly the capital of See also:Galicia. Suburbs have grown up, See also:round the See also:original See also:town, the See also:form of which, nearly quadrangular, is defined by a massive See also:Roman See also:wall 30 to 40 ft. high and 20 ft. thick, with projecting semicircular towers which numbered 85 as See also:late as 1809, when parts of the fortifications were destroyed by the See also:French. The wall now serves as a See also:promenade. The See also:Gothic See also:cathedral, on the See also:south See also:side of the town, See also:dates from the 12th See also:century, but was modernized in the 18th, and possesses no See also:special architectural merit. The conventual See also:church of Santo Domingo dates from the 14th century. The See also:principal See also:industries are tanning, and the manufacture of See also:linen and woollen See also:cloth. About 1 m. S., on the left bank of the Mino, are the famous hot See also:sulphur See also:baths of Lugo. Lugo (Lucus See also:Augusti) was a flourishing See also:city under Roman See also:rule (c.

19 B.C.–A.D. 409) and was made by See also:

Augustus the seat of a conventus juridicus (See also:assize). Its sulphur baths were even then well known. It was sacked by See also:barbarian invaders in the 5th century, and suffered greatly in the Moorish See also:wars of the 8th century. The bishopric dates from a very See also:early See also:period, and it it said to have acquired See also:metropolitan See also:rank in the See also:middle of the 6th century; it is now in the archiepiscopal province of See also:Santiago de Compostela.

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