Monterrey

Monterrey stands in the Verín district of southern Galicia, near the routes leading toward Portugal. Its position made the town a place of strategic concern to the Castilian crown. At the Cortes of Zamora in 1301, the procurators called Monterrey the key to the kingdom of Galicia and asked Ferdinand IV not to grant it away, so that royal jurisdiction would not be diminished. The name of the later city of Monterrey in Mexico commemorates a count of Monterrey, Gaspar de Zúñiga y Acevedo.