Welcome to the Spanish autonomous community of Galicia!  As you will remember from my previous post's map, the autonomous community of Galicia is located in the northwestern most part of Spain.  Having this location also puts it directly north of Portugal.  Here's a close up map of it as well as a photo of its flag.

          As you can see, this autonomous community is made up of four providences that are called, A Coruña, Lugo, Pontevedra, and Ourense.  In addition to each providence having its own capital city, as shown by the map, the entire autonomous community of Galicia also has a capital.  In Galicia's case, its capital city is Santiago de Compostela.
       Here's a photo of one of Santiago Compostela's most famous landmarks, the impressive Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela.  Take a look!

        In addition to this autonomous community's four providences and capital city, my introductory Spanish culture and civilization class also taught me about its fabulous nature and physical geography.  Here's a photo of Cape Ortegal, Cabo Ortegal in Spanish, located off of Galicia's northern coast.  Take a look!

           Stepping away from Galicia's nature and physical geography, this autonomous region also offers many cultural intricacies like traditional Galician cuisine as well as Galicia's native language, Gallego, which is closely related to Portuguese.
           Because the autonomous community of Galicia is right on the Atlantic coast, many of its most traditional dishes involve seafood.  Here's a photo of a very traditional Galician dish that includes spiced octopus.  In Spanish it's called Pulpo a la Gallega. Take a look!

          Well this is all for now, I hope you have enjoyed my sixteenth post learning a bit about Galicia!  In my next post, as I have previously stated, I will continue exploring more of Spain's autonomous communities, this time having a special focus on the autonomous community of the Basque Country.


Here's where I found the map of Galicia, the photo of the Galician flag, the photo of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, the photo of Cape Ortegal, and finally, the photo of the traditional Galician dish, Pulpo a la Gallega.

http://europa.eu/abc/maps/images/regions/spain/galicia.gif
http://www.spain-flag.eu/region-flags-spain/spain_galicia.gif
http://www.paradoxplace.com/Photo%20Pages/Spain/Camino_de_Santiago/Compostela/Cathedral/Images/800/NFront-May06-D6366sAR800.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cabo_Ortegal.jpg
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3117/2625677931_474754cf62_z.jpg