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Monforte de Lemos. / 42.51639°N 7.51611°W / 42.51639; -7.51611. Monforte de Lemos is a town and municipality in northwestern Spain, in the province of Lugo, Galicia. It covers an area of 200 km 2 and lies 62 km from Lugo. As of 2017 it had a population of 18,783.
Max 30ºC / Min 13ºC. The village of Monforte, one of the most important in the Galician interior, preserves many buildings and monuments within its limits that testify to the significance it had in past centuries. Its old quarter has the Property of Cultural Interest designation. It was the dominion of the House of Lemos.
Dec 24, 2014 · Manresa, Spain21,064 contributions. 0. Beautiful stone bridge. Ponte Vella is literally the Old Bridge and it is located in Monforte de Lemos, a town in Galicia Region, in the North of Spain. It is a stone Middle-Ages bridge, which you see, if you walk around the old town.
A mix of the charming, modern, and tried and true. See all. 2024. Parador de Monforte De Lemos. 972. from $86/night. Hotel Cardenal. 187.
One of the best views of Monforte de Lemos comes from Mount San Vicente with its historical monuments. Monforte de Lemos is the second largest city in the Lugo Province of Galicia Spain. The population hovers around 20,000 people, so it’s not very large or overwhelming to explore.
The history of Monforte de Lemos originated on San Vicente Hill, a vantage point named Castro Dactonio by the Romans which had previously been inhabited by the Lemavi people (“inhabitants of fertile land”). The name Monforte derives from the Latin mons fortis (“strong hill”). In medieval times it was a fortified city, built around a ...
Monforte de Lemos, city, Lugo provincia (province), in the comunidad autónoma (autonomous community) of Galicia, northwestern Spain. The city grew around the 10th-century Benedictine Abbey of San Vicente del Pino (now a hospital) and became the capital of the county of Lemos in the 12th century.
