A grand parade of Roman legions in the oldest city in Galicia

Spain is one of the oldest countries in Europe. Both its origins and its name date back to the time of ancient Rome.

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Of all the regions in present-day Spain, Galicia is the oldest. It was founded in 214 AD as Gallaecia, a province of Roman Hispania. Within Galicia, the oldest city is Lugo, founded as Lucus Augusti in 25 BC by Paulo Fabio Máximo, a legate of Caesar Augustus.

Although Celtic culture is very popular in Galicia, in reality, present-day Galicians are largely descended from the Hispano-Roman population. In fact, Galicia's regional language, Galician, is the Spanish language that most closely resembles Latin.

In 2002, the city of Lugo held an event called Arde Lucus to commemorate the Roman past of this city, the only one in the world to preserve a long wall of Roman origin, 2,266 meters long and made up of 85 towers. In 2000, UNESCO declared this wall a World Heritage Site.

Today, Arde Lucus is a massive event that celebrates a grand parade of Roman legions every year, a good way to remember the Latin origins of modern-day Spain. You can watch a video of this year's parade here, published today by Inaxete:

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