The Day of St. James is also the National Day of Galicia
25 July is St. James’ Day, which means that this is also the official holiday of the Spanish region of Galicia and its capital, Compostela. This is the day when the year-round pride of being a galego/a finds its ultimate culmination.
Galicians decided to make this day their nation’s official holiday in 1919 when several regional cultural organizations got together and agreed to hold celebrations starting the following year…
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