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| Cathedral of Le贸n
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The current cathedral of Le贸n, begun in the XIII century, presents a design of the purified style French Gothic. Well-known as leonine Pulchra.It highlights the main (gable-wall west) facade, with five arches finely sculpted in the XIII century, with three doors and central rosette, flanked respectively by two Gothic towers of 65 and 68 meters. The plant is a replica of the Cathedral of Reims aunqe something reduced. He/she has some dimensions of 90 m of long, 30 m of high and 29 m of wide. Divided in three ships, of the entrance to the transepto, and five ships of the transepto to the biggest altar. The cathedral presents macrocefalia, that is to say a head of more size qu the common (the width of the transepto in this case) thing and that him ressta profundiad and perspective but it offers him/her bigger welcome of faithful (due to being in the one on the way to Santiago their affluence it was bigger).In their walls it presents 125 large windows, with 1.800 m虏 of windows policromadas of medieval origin, being considered of the best in the world in their gender. Of them, they highlight the central rosette located in the central piazza, among the two needle towers, as well as those of the biggest Chapel, the north transepto and Santiago's Chapel.
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| Le贸n
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Le贸n is a Spanish city, capital of the county of Le贸n, located in the autonomous community of Castile and Le贸n and historical capital of the old Kingdom of Le贸n.The archaeological excavations carried out during the last years in the city of Le贸n have been able to specify, with unanswerable tests, the origin of the Roman occupation of the lot. The hypothesis that the cantonment of Legio SAW Victrix .unidad that participated in the Astur-Cantabrian (29 adC-19 adC) Wars, long time parked in Hispania remaining then. it had preceded Legio VII Gemina in the same place that this occupied later every time it seems surer.The archaeological evidences that you/they come to verify the beginning of the Roman establishment have been provided by made excavations as much in the interior as outside of the fortified current enclosure. The first, besides attesting important vestiges of the occupation of Legio VII Gemina, they have allowed to determine the existence of two precedent camps. The oldest would be dated among the last years of the century I adC and the beginnings of the following century. Little time later the second it would be erected, lasting until practically the arrival of Legio VII Gemina.
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| Astorga
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Astorga (of Latin Asturica) is a Spanish city located in the county of Le贸n (Castile and Le贸n), located to the Southwest of the capital, to an altitude of 868 m on the sea level. It is the capital of the district of Maragater铆a. He/she has an extension of 46,78 km虏 and for her the river Jargon reflects. Their population is of 12.275 inhabitants (INE 2005), being the fifth city of the county for inhabitants' (after the capital and Ponferrada, San Andr茅s of Rabanedo and Villaquilambre) number.
Astorga is also diocese (one of the most extensive and old from Spain) head whose jurisdiction embraces half of the county of Le贸n and it leaves of those of Prays you and Zamora.In the shield of the city an oak branch appears and its flag is red with the shield of the city in the center.Their gentile one is astorgano / to or asturicense, their postal code is 24700 and its geographical approximate position 42,46掳 N, 6,06掳 OR.
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| Castle of the Templarios S.XII, Ponferrada
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Ponferrada is the capital of the district of Bierzo, belonging to the county of Le贸n, in the autonomous community of Castile and Le贸n (Spain). It is located in the coordinates 42,33掳 N, 006潞 34' 59" OR, to 508 m on the sea level, in the fork of the rivers Sil and Boeza, and he/she has an approximate population of 65.000 inhabitants.The most important monument is the Castle Templario of Ponferrada, the biggest in extension deEuropa. Their construction concludes in 1282. In fact, the strength was up-to-date and reconstructed in numerous occasions throughout the history, among the XIII and XVII centuries. At the moment it is in rehabilitation process. After eliminating accumulated debris, to carry out consolidation works, etc., it is sought to reconstruct the castle completely, until their original form.It also highlights the Basilica of the Oak (1614), of Renaissance style; the Street of the Clock that communicates the square of the basilica with that of the City council; and the house consistorial (1692) of Baroque style.
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| Villama帽谩n church
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Villama帽谩n is a municipality located to the southeast of the county of Le贸n, in the autonomous community of Castile and Le贸n, Spain, in the area mesetaria of the county of Le贸n and for which passes the river Esla.Originariamente was known as Villamagna, name that evolved toward its current version, Villama帽谩n Villama帽谩n is located to the south of the county of Le贸n, in the well-known district as Esla-Campos, to 37 kilometers of the city of Le贸n and 767 meters of altitude. It has 736 housings and a total of 1287 inhabitants.Some of the most celebrated places in Villama帽谩n are the bigger famous Square in (good known as The Square) which are the church and their visible tower from the exterior of the town together with the kiosk, besides the hermitage of the Bramble (the legend counts that Virgin Mar铆a's ghost appeared in a bramble and it ordered those that witnessed the appearance there the constru铆r same a church in his honor, of there the names Hermitage of the Bramble and Virgin of the Bramble) and the well-known famous park as The Garden.
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