Tuy

Tuy stands above the Miño, the river that separates Galicia from Portugal. Its cathedral of Santa María marks a bishop's seat whose history reaches back to late antiquity, when the Roman road between Braga and Lugo passed through the town. The fertile river valley had been inhabited long before Rome, and fortified hill settlements surrounded the area. Tuy later became the capital of one of the seven provinces of the kingdom of Galicia, its position on the frontier giving the episcopal city a place in the affairs of both neighboring kingdoms.