Mellid

Mellid grew beside the road to Santiago de Compostela, where routes through inland Galicia brought pilgrims together. After the early town was devastated, Alfonso IX helped rebuild it along the pilgrimage road. In 1320 Archbishop Berenguel de Landoria granted its inhabitants the right to fortify the town, build a castle and collect tolls. Leaders of the Irmandiño movement gathered here in 1467 and resolved to resist Archbishop Alonso de Fonseca and Sancho Sánchez de Ulloa; during the revolt the town walls were pulled down.