Santiago de Compostela (esp)

Santiago de Compostela

Santiago de Compostela ranks 1,528th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Mikkeli, Kansas City, Kansas, and Talavera de la Reina. Memorable people born in Santiago de Compostela include Alfonso VI of León and Castile, Mariano Rajoy, and Rosalía de Castro. Memorable people who died in Santiago de Compostela include William X, Duke of Aquitaine, Ramón del Valle-Inclán, and Ramón Piñeiro López. Santiago de Compostela has been the birth place of many soccer players and politicians and the death place of many politicians and writers. Santiago de Compostela is located in Spain.

Santiago de Compostela, simply Santiago, or Compostela, is the capital of the autonomous community of Galicia, in northwestern Spain. The city has its origin in the shrine of Saint James the Great, now the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, as the destination of the Way of St. James, a leading Catholic pilgrimage route since the 9th century. In 1985, the city's Old Town was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Read more on Wikipedia