Santiago de Compostella

Santiago de Compostela
City (Municipality)
Santiago, an UNESCO World Heritage Site
Flag Coat of arms
Location of the municipality of Santiago de Compostela within Galicia
Santiago de Compostela Location of Santiago de Compostela within Spain
Coordinates: 42°52′40″N 8°32′40″W / 42.87778°N 8.54444°W / 42.87778; -8.54444Coordinates: 42°52′40″N 8°32′40″W / 42.87778°N 8.54444°W / 42.87778; -8.54444
Country	Spain
Autonomous Community	Galicia
Province	A Coruña
Comarca	Santiago
Parishes	30 Aríns Bando A Barciela Busto O Carballal O Castiñeiriño Cesar Conxo O Eixo A Enfesta Fecha Figueiras Fontiñas Grixoa Laraño Marantes Marrozos Nemenzo A Peregrina Sabugueira San Caetano San Lázaro San Paio Santa Cristina de Fecha Santiago de Compostela Sar Verdía Vidán Villestro Vista Alegre
Government
• Type	Mayor-council
• Body	Council of Santiago
• Mayor	Martiño Noriega Sánchez (Compostela Aberta)
Area
• Total	220 km2 (80 sq mi)
Elevation	260 m (850 ft)
Population (2012)INE
• Total	95,671
• Density	428.81/km2 (1,110.6/sq mi)
Demonym(s)	Santiagan santiagués, -guesa  (gl / es) compostelán, -ana  (gl) compostelano, -na  (es)
Time zone	CET (GMT +1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (GMT +2) (UTC)
Area code(s)	+34
Website	www.santiagodecompostela.gal

UNESCO World Heritage Site

Santiago de Compostela (Old Town)
Name as inscribed on the World Heritage List
Location	Spain
Type	Cultural
Criteria	i, ii, vi
Reference	347
UNESCO region	Continental Europe
Inscription history
Inscription	1985 (9th Session)

Santiago de Compostela, commonly known as Santiago (/ˌsæntiˈɑːɡoʊ/, Galician: [sanˈtiaɣo], Spanish: [sanˈtjaɣo]), 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 city's cathedral, as destination of the Way of St. James, a leading Catholic pilgrimage route originated in the 9th century. In 1985 the city's Old Town was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Santiago is the local Galician evolution of Vulgar Latin Sanctus Iacobus "". According to legend, Compostela derives from the Latin Campus Stellae (i.e., "field of the star"); it seems unlikely, however, that this phrase could have yielded the modern Compostela under normal evolution from Latin to Medieval Galician.

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