Editing Lugo (section)

==History==
[[File:Lugo 212-Catedral Santa Maria-(DavidDaguerro).jpg|thumb|left|320px|Overview of the Cathedral of Santa María in the city of Lugo.]]

Later conquered by [[Paullus Fabius Maximus]] and called Lucus Augusti<ref>noted as {{lang|grc|Λοῦκος Αὐγούστον}} by [[Ptolemy]], ii. 6. § 24</ref> in 13 BC on the positioning of a Roman military camp,<ref group="nb">The [[cardo]] and [[Decumanus Maximus|decumanus]] of the ancient plan can still be recognized in the modern street plan.</ref> while the Roman Empire completed the conquest, in the North, of the [[Iberian Peninsula]]. Situated in what was the [[Roman province]] of [[Hispania Tarraconensis]], it was the chief town of the tribe of the [[Capori]]. Though small it was the most important Roman town in what became [[Gallaecia]] during the Roman period, the seat of a ''[[conventus]]'', one of three in Gallaecia, and later became one of the two capitals of Gallaecia, and gave its name to the ''Callaïci Lucenses''. It was centrally situated in a large gold mining region, which during the Roman period was very active. The Conventus Lucensis, according to [[Pliny the Elder|Pliny]], began at the river [[Navilubio]], and contained 16 peoples; besides the [[Celtici]] and [[Lebuni]]. Though these tribes were not powerful, and their names "barbarous" to Roman ears, there were among them 166,000 freemen.<ref>Pliny, iii. 3. s. 4, iv. 20. s. 34</ref> The city stood on one of the upper branches of the Minius (modern [[Minho River|Miño]]), on the road from Bracara to Asturica,<ref>[[Antonine Itinerary|Itin. Ant.]] pp. 424, 430</ref> and had some famous baths, near the bridge across the Miño.

Lucus was the seat of a [[bishopric]] by the later 5th century at the latest and remained an administrative center under the [[Suebi]] and [[Visigoths]], before going into such a decline that the site was found to be deserted in the middle of the 8th century by Bishop Odoario, who set about reviving it. 10th-century attempts at rebuilding its ''casas destructas'' (abandoned tenements) suggest that it remained a town only on paper: the seat of a bishopric, administered by a count, from which royal charters were issued. "Its commercial and industrial role was insignificant", Richard Fletcher wrote of 11th century Lugo.<ref>Richard A. Fletcher, 1984. ''Saint James's Catapult: The Life and Times of Diego Gelmírez of Santiago de Compostela'' (Oxford University Press) ([http://libro.uca.edu/sjc/sjc.htm on-line text, ch. 1])</ref> 

During the Middle Ages Lugo, like [[Santiago de Compostela]], was a center of pilgrimage, because the cathedral had the special privilege, which it still retains today, of exposing to the public the consecrated host twenty-four hours a day. However, Santiago De Compostela was a larger site of Pilgrimages. Most people who went on Pilgrimages would take a stop in Lugo and continue on. The walls were a small center for pilgrims to enamor at. In the 18th century Lugo was granted the privilege of organizing the fairs of St. Froilán. During the Modern Age, Lugo had a certain supremacy, although other nearby towns such as [[Mondoñedo]] or [[Ribadeo]] disputed it. It was not until the division of the state into provinces in 1833 and the creation of provincial governments that Lugo has become the most important town in the province of Lugo, because of its capital status. This rise has been bolstered by the arrival of the first railroad to the city in 1875.

During the 20th century the city continued to grow as the administration and services center of the province. In 1936, when the [[Spanish Civil War|Civil War]] broke out, the city came quickly under the [[National faction (Spanish Civil War)|Nationalists']] control. In the 1970s the city undertook important reforms, like the development of the Ceao Industrial Area (1979) and the complete restoration of the [[Roman Walls of Lugo|Roman walls]].

[[Infanta Elena, Duchess of Lugo|Infanta Elena]], the elder daughter of [[King Juan Carlos]] and [[Queen Sofía of Spain]] and fourth in the [[line of succession]] to the Spanish throne, has been duchess of Lugo since 1995.

[[File:Ponte romana de Lugo.jpg|thumb|Old [[Roman Empire|Roman]] bridge over the Miño River.]]

In 2000, the recognition of the [[Roman Walls of Lugo|Roman walls]] on [[UNESCO|UNESCO's]] [[World Heritage Site]] was an important event in the city.