Melide, Spain

Melide
Melide
Municipality
Postal code	15800
Website	Official website

Melide (

autonomous region of Galicia in northwest Spain. It belongs to the comarca of Terra de Melide. It has an area of 101 km² and a population of 9,000 inhabitants mostly spread among its 26 parishes

. It has an elevation of 456 meters.

Demography

From: INE Archiv

History

The history of this village, since its foundation in the 10th century, is deeply linked with the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela as it is where two separate paths French Way and Camino Primitivo of the Camino de Santiago link up.

In 1320 Melide obtained from the

Catholic Monarchs

banned the construction of any fortress in the village.

During the last few centuries, like many villages in inner Galicia, it has suffered from a vast emigration of its people to Cuba and Argentina up to 1950s, and then to Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and to other cities of Spain such as Barcelona, Bilbao and A Coruña.

Currently its economy is based on agriculture, meat processing, and, more recently, tourism.