Location attached to Padron, where you can visit laColegiata of Iria Flavia (O Santa María de Adina)

Location attached to Padron, where you can visit laColegiata of Iria Flavia (O Santa María de Adina) Padron between Cruces and the almost obligatory stop is Iria Flavia, also known as Santa Maria of Adina and where, when the Romans imposed their law, came together a total of seven tracks.

Yes there are big words, because it is one of the oldest churches in Galicia. Former Episcopal See and first Marian temple in the world. Vespasian (Titus Flavius), Roman emperor rose to Iria consideration by municipality and thereafter was called Flavia. San Agatadoro, was the first to occupy the episcopal chair, in the year 40 of our era.

Teodomiro, bishop of Iria, with his retinue of canons, was the one who discovered the tomb of St. James July 25 813. year, hence the great importance in the Jacobean tradition. After the discovery of the relics of St. James the importance of Iria Flavia went to Santiago-growing as quickly this iriense council declined but currently remains a place of worship in the Jacobean tradition.

The Pedrón, the Rocks and the Church of Iria, are the three pillars of the Jacobean crib, being this way the myth was born in Santiago Padrón.

Iria Flavia does not impress both its building -although attention-grabbing escalonadas- towers and its history: in this church are buried 28 Bishops Santos as were always around the cemetery (and where, currently, archaeologists were responsible to bring to light a good relationship of anthropoid sarcophagi and another set of objects). In the cemetery of Santa Maria de Adina he requested and was buried the great poet Rosalia de Castro today in the Pantheon of Illustrious Gallegos in Santiago de Compostela.

The first temple was built parallel to the introduction of Christianity, and at the end of century X Almanzor reduced it to ashes.

The Archbishop Gelmírez, in the twelfth century, ordered the reconstruction of the building, more than two and a half centuries underwent a complete refurbishment.

Today, inside, stained glass, the chapel of the Bishop of Quito and the tombs of bishops look irienses stop, as with the tympanum-representing the Adoration of the Reyes abroad.