The old firewood marketplace
by RicardMN Photography
Title
The old firewood marketplace
Artist
RicardMN Photography
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Photograph
Description
Praza da Le�a, the old firewood marketplace, in the old quarter of Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain.
Pontevedra is a Spanish city in the north-west of the Iberian Peninsula. It is the capital of both the Comarca (County) and Province of Pontevedra, and of the Rias Bajas in Galicia.
The name of the city is likely a Latin composite of pons, pontis (bridge) and veter, vetera, veterum (old, long established). In Galicia, Latin pons, a masculine word, became feminine, hence Vulgar Latin Ponte Vetera, which became by the 13th century the modern Galician language toponymy Pontevedra, "the old bridge", in reference to an old Roman bridge across the Lerez river.
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January 4th, 2014
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