Galicia, the Switzerland of Spain

by Annette M. B. Meakin

[247] Pontevedra was made the capital of the province by Royal Charter in 1833. See Villa-Amil, Iglesias Gallegas.

[248] See España Sagrada, vol. xix.

[249] Fidel Fita thought that two Roman roads met here.

[250] See Villa-Amil, op. cit.; and Casto Sampedro, Coleccion de documentos e inscripciones para la historia de Pontevedra, p. 218, vol. ii., 1897.

[251] Lopez Ferreiro calls this edifice the perla del arte Gallega.

[252] This curious little book is an extract from the Hakluyt MS.

[253] Señor Sampedro hopes shortly to publish further particulars.

[254] By Bishop Juan Lopez. See full particulars in Villa-Amil (op. cit.).

[255] See Narrative of the Embassy, by Ruy Gonzalez de Clavijo, 1403 A.D. Translated by C. Markham, 1859.

[256] See preface to Voyages of Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa to the Straits of Magellan, translated 1895. Sir Clements Markham states that Sarmiento was born at Alcala de Henares in 1532, but that he was brought up in his father’s house at Pontevedra.