[...] despite its clear ethnic, linguistic and geographical
differences from the rest of Spain, and its remoteness from the
center, Galicia, though regarded as a separate kingdom in the later
middle ages, rarely enjoyed, or appears to have sought, political
independence... Probably the possession of the national shrine of St. James of Compostela from the 9th century
attached Galicians, for religious and economical reasons, firmly, to
the central kingdom.
- The Encyclopædia Britannica
- The official server of the
Autonomous Local Government of Galicia.
- The official server of the
Galician Radio and Television broadcasting company. The radio
can now be heard through Internet using RealAudio (TM).
- Galician is, together with
Basque,
Castillian
and Catalan,
one of the four official languages in Spain.
- A quite comprehensive collection of pointers and information
about Galicia and its economical, political and cultural development
can be found at Vieiros. Highly
recommended!
- There is a place to meet (electronically, of course) people from Galicia.
- Galicia was important in the middle ages because of the
pilgrimages to St. James of Compostela cathedral, which
still continue today.
- For more information about the Galician language, you can
visit the Institute for the
Galician Language (in Galician and English).
- Galicia is undergoing through a political and economical development, and
new
technologies are meeting the always alive old traditions,
never to be forgotten, in a promising marriage for the coming
century.
- Retrieve
pictures of Galicia from the Corbis database
in Internet.
- A view of the
history, identity, past, present and future situation of
Galicia. You may or may not support these ideas,
but the site is worth a visit.
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