Padrón

Padrón , in the past named Iria-Flavia , is a Spanish Ville located upstream modest Galician estuary, the ría of Arousa, on banks of Sar and Ulla which a pleasant shaded walk often evoked in the poems borders of Rosalía of Castro, with twenty kilometers in the south-east of Saint-Jacques-with-Compostelle, in the province of the Corogne, which forms part itself at the autonomous community of Galicia.

This active small town, to the south of Saint-Jacques-of-Compostelle gave its name to a variety of green peppers, the pimientos of Padrón , which one tastes roasted, with typed or out of aperitif, through all Spain.

Iria-Flavia

Iria-Flavia is the name under which the city in the Antiquité and with the Moyen-âge was known, currently called Padrón.

It took the name of Iria-Flavia, when Flavio Vespasiano installed its veterans. It was the capital of the area, located on the way which went since Braga to Astorga.

It was episcopal see with the Middle Ages, until Alphonse II transfers évêché to Saint-Jacques-with-Compostelle, shortly after the discovery of the tomb of Jacques saint.

According to the tradition, it is in Iria Flavia that the holy Apostle Jacques would have preached for the first time during his stay in Spain. Its disciples Théodomir and Athanase auraintt brought its body and its head, shortly after its torment since Jerusalem in a stone boat, in seven days, without veil nor rudder.

The boat was moored with a " pedrón " (a stone), and from there the current toponym of Padrón. The two disciples (after having buried the body of the apostle) remained to preach in Iria-Flavia.

When the name of Padrón was made more popular, Iria-Flavia was transformed into a simple place known as. Currently one tends to recover his name of Iria-Flavia.

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