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unusual facts about Compostela, Compostela Valley



Capital of Culture

City of Culture of Galicia, complex of cultural buildings in Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Compostela, Compostela Valley

Another version is that a Spanish friar from the East Coast came to the place bringing with him a statue of Senior (cf. Señor) Santiago de Apostol, patron saint of his birthplace Santiago de Compostela, Spain and thus named the place Compostela.

David Claerbout

CGAC Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea (ed.), 'David Claerbout' texts by Stephan Berg, Rachel Kushner, Santiago de Compostela, 2003 (exh.cat.)

DXGN

Powered with a 10K Harris transmitter, DXGN 89.9FM hover the airwaves of Davao City, Davao del Norte, Davao Oriental, Davao del Sur, Compostela Valley, including parts of Agusan del Sur, Lanao del Norte, Saranggani Province, North Cotabato and South Cotabato.

Historia Caroli Magni

The text is considered by critics, in part, as a work of propaganda promoting the Way of St. James (many of the sites mentioned in the text are on the pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela) and Reconquista.

O Pino

On its path from Arzúa to Santiago de Compostela, The French Way of the Way of St. James in turn passes through the parroquias of Ferreiros, Cerceda, Arca, Pereira and Castrofeito.

Roads to Santiago

The book was reviewed in Publishers Weekly: "The pilgrims' route to the cathedral in Santiago de Compostela in northern Spain has long been a favorite subject of travel writers, but few have covered it as entertainingly, quirkily and, finally, movingly as Dutch essayist Nooteboom (The Following Story)."

Spanish chivalry

Order of Santiago – or the Order of Saint James of Compostela was founded in the 12th century, and owes its name to the national patron of Spain, Santiago (St. James the Greater), under whose banner the Christians of Galicia and Asturias began in the 9th century to combat and drive back the Muslims of the Iberian Peninsula.

Tagum

Tagum, from being a predominantly agricultural area, has become Mindanao's fastest-rising urban city due to its strategic location, being in the crossroads between the rural areas of Davao del Norte and Compostela Valley and the urban Metro Davao.

TV Patrol Southern Mindanao

TV Patrol Southern Mindanao maintains a 24-hour shift of reporters, cameramen and drivers with coverage over the provinces of Davao del Norte, Davao del Sur, Davao Occidental, Davao Oriental, Compostela Valley, Southern Bukidnon and North Cotabato.


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