Muxía

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Field	Value
official_name	Muxía
image_skyline	Casa consistorial de Muxía.jpg
image_shield	Escudo de Muxia.svg
image_map	Situacion_Muxía.PNG
map_caption	Location of Muxía within Galicia
subdivision_type	Parroquia
leader_title	Alcalde (Mayor)
population_as_of
population_footnotes
population_total
timezone	CET
utc_offset	+1
timezone_DST	CEST
utc_offset_DST	+2
footnotes
image_caption	Muxía town hall
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Muxía (; ) is a coastal town and municipality in the province of A Coruña in the autonomous community of Galicia in northwestern Spain. It belongs to the comarca of Fisterra.

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There was a serious oil spill involving the oil tanker Prestige along the Muxía part of the coast in November, 2002, leaking about 70,000 gallons of oil into the Atlantic Ocean.

History

In the 5th century and 6th century, Galicia was part of the Germanic Suevi kingdom. The Moors replaced the Germanic rulers, who were displaced in the 8th or 9th century by the king of Asturias.

The monastery near Muxía was named "Mosteiro de Moraime" to honor the saint, San Xiao de Moraime, and was established in the early 12th century. Not long after, in 1105, it was attacked and destroyed by Norman pirates, and later by Saxons. Alfonso Raimúndez, the future King and Emperor Alfonso VII of León and Castile, had lived in the area when he was younger and was educated by Pedro Froilaz de Traba.

Christians built a hermitage on this location at first, and later the church in the 17th century. On December 25, 2013, the Santuario da Virxe da Barca was destroyed by a fire caused by lightning.

Muxía was purchased by King Carlos of Castile (the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V) in the 16th century.

Muxía was destroyed in the 19th century by Napoleon´s forces.

Demography

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Gallery

File:Illa do Castelo, Touriñán.jpg|Castelo Island, Touriñán File:A Ferida escultura en Muxía 05.jpg|"A Ferida" (The Wound) sculpture by File:San Xulián de Moraime.Muxía.Galicia 278.jpg|Church of San Xulián de Moraime File:Porta no Santuario da Virxe da Barca, Muxía.jpg|Doorway of the ancient Sanctuary of Virxe da Barca

References

[http://libro.uca.edu/frontier/bishko2.htm#N_10_ ''Studies in Medieval Spanish Frontier History, Study II: Fernando I and the Origins of the Leonese-Castilian Alliance With Cluny Alfonso'', Charles Julian Bishko, Cuadernos de Historia de España 47 (1968), 31-135 and 48 (1969), 30-116]
(2013-12-25). "Un rayo destruye un emblemático santuario en Muxía". El Mundo.
"A Ferida" by {{ill. Alberto Bañuelos. nl. Alberto Bañuelos Fournier is a sculpture that symbolizes the wound that has been done to the sea by the spilling of 66,000 tons of oil when the [[Prestige oil spill. Prestige]] tanker broke apart off the coast of Muxia on November 13, 2002. The sculpture is 11 meters high, and weights over 400 tons.

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