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Melide
Municipality
Coat of arms
Location of Melide
Melide Location in Spain
Country	Spain
Autonomous community	Galicia
Province	A Coruña
Comarca	Terra de Melide
Government
• Alcalde	José Manuel Pérez Penas (Adiante Melide)
Demonym(s)	Melidense, melidao/melidá.
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	15800
Website	Official website

Ayuntamiento square of Melide

Old lion statue in Melide

Melide (Spanish: Mellid) is a municipality in the province of A Coruña in the autonomous region of Galicia in northwest Spain. It belongs to the comarca of Terra de Melide. It has an area of 101 km² and a population of 7,734 inhabitants mostly spread among its 26 parishes. It has an elevation of 456 meters.

Demography

From: INE Archiv

History

The history of this village, since its foundation in the 10th century, is deeply linked with the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela as it is where two separate paths French Way and Camino Primitivo of the Camino de Santiago link up.

In 1320 Melide obtained from the Archbishop of Santiago, Berenguel de Landoira, the privilege of building up a castle, fortressing the village, and charging taxes. In 1467 "os irmandiños" opposed the Archbishop Alonso II Fonseca and started a series of fights against its power. During this riot the walls of the village were destroyed as well as the castle. After this, the Catholic Monarchs banned the construction of any fortress in the village.

During the last few centuries, like many villages in inner Galicia, it has suffered from a vast emigration of its people to Cuba and Argentina up to 1950s, and then to Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and to other cities of Spain such as Barcelona, Bilbao and A Coruña.

Economy

Currently its economy is based on agriculture, meat processing, and, more recently, tourism.

See also

List of municipalities in A Coruña

External links

• Web of Melide

Gallery

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  Furelos Church
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  Santa María Church
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  Church, Melide
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  Furelos neighbourhood
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  Cruceiro de Melide
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  The center
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  Cooking a "polbo á feira", a typical food in this town