Lugo Attractions

Lugo, situated on the upper Miño (Galician Minho), in the uplands of Galicia in northwestern Spain, is chief town of its province and the see of a bishop. It is a town with a long history: there was a Celtic settlement on the site, and the Romans developed it into an important city and military base under the name of Lucus Augusti. The town has preserved most of its circuit of Roman walls, with numerous towers. When the Moors, under their general Muza, attacked the town in 714 they were unable to destroy the walls and had to content themselves with burning the place down. Within a few years, however, it was rebuilt. In the 10th century Lugo was captured by Norman raiders, but after they were driven out the town enjoyed a relatively peaceful existence until the Napoleonic wars of the early 19th century. Lugo is now the center of a beautiful, largely agricultural region. Around the outskirts of the town are rather dreary and unappealing districts of high-rise apartment blocks, but within the old walls Lugo is a lively town which also has many peaceful nooks and corners and handsome old buildings.