Thanks so much, Stuart! I spent two months in Galicia in 2017 and absolutely loved it. We visited Lugo many times, and it was wonderful to see this beautiful city and have a brief virtual walk around it and the Roman Walls again. We're planning to get back to Galicia as soon as possible.
You are a good walker Stuart! I know from experience that city very well, in fact I will be in the centre tomorrow morning. You showed us most of the sights in the centre, you passed the bar where my Irish friend and I sometimes play and the magnificent cheese shop! Until a few years ago it was normal to drive over the Roman bridge across the Miño but it was converted to pedestrian only when the new suspension bridge was built further down the river. It was single lane with priority to those already on the bridge. The streets are much less busy now with the virus about, it is normally a bustling place and the night life is very good. I enjoyed your tour of "my" city very much.
@@USERRINZLER There are two possibilities. First one, it comes from latin "Lucus Augusti", that's the name Romans gave to our city. Others think it can come also from the name Lugh, which was a celtic god.
How funny ! i was telling my cousing about your channel and you literally walked in front of his house ! 😆 he lives in Lugo inside the walls by the restaurants. Thank you Stuart ! Very refreshing video ! Relaxing and great music.
I am from Mexico but I have visited Lugo several times. Part of my heart is in Lugo, I love that city and Galicia too. Your video is wonderful, thank you very much for that tour.❤️🙏 I really miss Lugo!
Wow, what a beautiful place. Up until now I had no desire to travel as I am still not sure that it is safe but after watching this I am starting to feel maybe I could go somewhere. Thank you so much for the video even though all of my fears came at once, heights, walking over drains and birds flying close by. Thanks again Stuart.
Took a rest day in Lugo while walking the Camino Primitivo a couple of years ago. Loved the city and particularly the amazing city walls. Thanks for the video.
WoW very cool city! Really cool how a large part of the city is surrounded by an old historical wall. Even more cool that you can actually walk across the top of it! Enjoyed checking the city out on Google Earth to gain even more perspective about how the city is designed around the wall.
Ben Kurth One of the very last towns fortified by the Romans, around the year 400ad I think, hence it has lasted so well. Spain is blessed with wonderful Roman remains.
If anyone is interested in the Camino de Santigo. The primitive way or the oldest route starts in Lugo, ends in Santiago de Compostela (102km) This route would take about week or less to complete. You can see the Camino markers in the beginning of the video.
Hi Stuart, love your channel and thanks for the superb video as usual! I'm an Irishman living in Pamplona, Navarra and Lugo isn't too dissimilar to my adopted city. This week would usually be Pamplona's famous San Fermin celebration and running of the bulls, alas that's cancelled this year of course. Hopefully you'll be able to do a video about Pamplona some time soon! I look forward to seeing it. Keep up the good work!
Looks great, will be visiting in July for a couple of days when me are on a Vespa tour around the picos so looking forward to it as a little stop over, thanks for sharing
I think you were here a little before or a little after our Arde Lucus festival. Last year it was cancelled for the virus, there were just a few activities, with a lot of health measures, only to remind ourselves that the festival should have to be celebrated on those days. However, we changed it for an online festival, and I think it was pretty amazing, given the circumstances. If you can come back another year, I truly think you'd enjoy the festival a lot. It's a historical recreation of our roman and celtic past, with lots of activities during 3-4 days. All day, and almost all night. It's almost impossible to see all the city has to offer during those days. But it's not history all the time. In Lugo we know how to mix history and fiesta! People really enjoy it.
@@USERRINZLER with Italy and France I guess it's because all three languages have the same root, latin. As per México it's probable because of the colonization. There are other names copied from spanish towns and cities.
Still looking for the name of this song after 2 years. 😅 I may have replayed this video about a 100 times by now because I love the music (but also the scenery!) so much!
What is the first piece of music you use here (would you mind having music credits in your video descriptions when you use music)? Also, is this amount of graffiti exceptional or normal in Galicia, or Spain in general?
I just looked at apartments for rent there! I didn't notice until I saw your thumbnail. I saw the same building in the pictures for the apartment. I think it was almost right next to it.
Nice vid Stuart. We did a mini Argo road trip and took in the Baiona area (Portsmouth ferry to Cherbourg, La Rochelle, Biarritz, Baiona and Porto) a couple of years ago to visit a friend at his lovely self-built villa among the pines overlooking the bay and islands for a few days. Beautiful countryside and coastline. The people were very welcoming and even with English not widely spoken, accepted that my Spanish was very limited, we managed to communicate locally with lots of smiles back. Really enjoyed the area and the run down to Porto. Crossing the Pyrenees from Biarritz into Spain was also quite spectacular, maybe worth a trip for you sometime?
Great video. Lugo looks beautiful. I had barely heard of the place only because they have a football team CD Lugo playing in the Segunda Division. I have only been to Galicia once. (Santiago de Compostela and La Coruña. I was not doing the camino.). I would like to go back to La Coruña sometime. How is internal Spanish travel? What are trains and long distance buses like in la nueva normalidad. I would assume that AVE is probably quite safe as there is plenty of space to spread people out. Also in some AVE stations you have to check in and pass your bags thorugh a airport style x ray machine. In Madrid Puerta de Atocha, after you you pass security you wait upstairs in a kind of departure lounge and then show your ticket and go down a ramp onto the platform. I remember people being quite well spread out anyway so it would not be difficult to adapt. How are regional trains? P.S. León and Ponferrada also look worth visiting.Maybe someday, I´ll have to hire a car in Madrid and go for a bit of a road trip.
Hi Stuart, what is the precentage of open businesses now? Lets assume boarders and flights traffic suddenly came back to normal, will visiting Spain now be boring due to the restrictions? What about Hotels and Airbnb's, are they adopting serious precaution measures? Thanks Enjoying your vlogs 👍🏻👍🏻
Tha ks for the excellent video Stuart. Hope you can find the time to come to the Canaries and see my island of La Palma - La Isla Bonita ( the beautiful island.).
The north coast of Lugo province from Viveiro to Ribadeo is on lockdown. 71,000 people cannot leave the area and I presume tourists from outside cannot come in. Over 100 cases. And this happened just as the hotels were opening up. La Playa de las Catedrales, the iconic beach near Ribadeo, is in the zone. Asturias has tightened its border at Ribadeo so the virus doesn't spread into their territory.
Hi William , it seems the video was recorded at morning, the center of the town is just made for tourist, bars, terraces, restaurants, and interesting places like the cathedral, churches etc, july and August many people in Lugo has a second house in the countryside and it was just after the lockdown so probably many of locals escaped to the beach or the countryside, anyway Lugo is an small town so the activity isn´t like a big city, i live in Madrid and if i had the opportunity... i would prefer live in a place like Lugo
Hola necesito si pudiera orientarme deseo retirarme en espana soy senior sola cual seria mejor ciudad con buen transporte publico buen clima y buena atencion medica gracias muy buen video❤
Not exactly, not all the province of Lugo is now in lockdown, only the area of A Mariña in the north of the province is in 5-day lockdown at the moment, the capital of the province which Stuart has shown in this video isn't affected by that lockdown
I have never thought that this beautiful country now in totally destroyed by the so called virus ...When asymptomatics can't be ruled out from ill people then this situation will go on ages and living in Spain will be an agony
@@polucus oh gracias!!! Yo me enteré que tiene una iglesia con nombre en francés en Lugo, es verdad? Hay alguna iglesia menor en Lugo que no sea catedral?
Lily Iglesias ツ hola ! Hay muchas iglesias en Lugo ciudad, San Francisco, san Roque, San Marcos , La soledad etc etc pero con nombre francés no me suena, quizás es en Lugo provincia tendrías monasterios u otras villas importantes como Samos, Monforte, Mondoñedo, Lorenzana etc etc la verdad está plagada de iglesias y monstarios de la época románica
@@polucus oh lo siento, pensé ter visto una iglesia con nombre en francés en Lugo en Google Maps. Pero estas que usted dijo todas están dentro de la muralla???
Lily Iglesias ツ hola !! No todas están dentro de la muralla aunque las más antiguas diría que si, no sabría decir que es lo que has visto quizás algún nombre en gallego ?
@sfdanceron1, la muralla de Lugo es romana y la de Ávila medieval. Es típica la pregunta que haces: España es Andalucía, Castilla, Madrid, Cataluña, etc; excepto la desconocida y maravillosa Galicia. La muralla de Lugo con sus más de 2 kilómetros de longitud, es la mejor conservada del mundo e su estructura romana. Desde Santiago de Compostela, capital de Galicia y patrimonio de la humanidad, un saludo.
When you arrive at Barajas airport they ask only one question of Americans. Do you support Trump? If you say you do, they will put you on the next flight home. If you say you don't, they will greet you with a big abrazo and a bienvenido.
You tricked us, Stuart. Yesterday you said that you were back in your apartment in Madrid. How did you find time to drive up to Lugo from Piornedo and then back to Madrid? I bet you were tired. Lugo is a beautiful little city, not the modern part but the area inside the Roman walls. I noticed the horrible graffitti calling for a vote for the anti-fascists. Lugo has the second largest population of Galego speakers (33%) after Santiago de Compostela (35%). That wall is about 2 kim. long and can be easily walked. Too bad though that almost nothing was said about the city. It seemed like a waste for anyone wanting to know more about Lugo. We only learned the name of the river Minho, the most important river in Galicia, which flows into the Atlantic and passes through Orense. Stuart, I hope your next videos gets better as far as information goes. There is so much history here and you ignored it.
Remember that 2 days ago no video was uploaded to the channel and in that day maybe he went to Lugo, filmed the images for this video and turned back to Madrid and yesterday he already was in Madrid
It’s just a walking tour. I’m sure there are many videos that explore the history of the city out there! Stuart has done a lot of videos that feature him talking and maybe he wanted to rest his voice a bit. I enjoyed the change of pace in this one!
Thanks so much, Stuart! I spent two months in Galicia in 2017 and absolutely loved it. We visited Lugo many times, and it was wonderful to see this beautiful city and have a brief virtual walk around it and the Roman Walls again. We're planning to get back to Galicia as soon as possible.
I hope you get there soon ;-)
@@charteres5511 :-)
You are a good walker Stuart! I know from experience that city very well, in fact I will be in the centre tomorrow morning. You showed us most of the sights in the centre, you passed the bar where my Irish friend and I sometimes play and the magnificent cheese shop! Until a few years ago it was normal to drive over the Roman bridge across the Miño but it was converted to pedestrian only when the new suspension bridge was built further down the river. It was single lane with priority to those already on the bridge. The streets are much less busy now with the virus about, it is normally a bustling place and the night life is very good. I enjoyed your tour of "my" city very much.
Chris Jeneson Your city is beautiful!
@@carole-f8x Yes Carol, they keep it well!
Chris J, Do you know why this City was named Lugo? I cant seem to find much information on this. Thanks
@@USERRINZLER There are two possibilities. First one, it comes from latin "Lucus Augusti", that's the name Romans gave to our city. Others think it can come also from the name Lugh, which was a celtic god.
@@USERRINZLER Sorry Gil, I don't know but maybe it's because Lugo is the capital city of Lugo province. Of course it could be the other way around!
Love the travel video! It's great to see this part of Spain, I hope I can visit Galicia one day!
How funny ! i was telling my cousing about your channel and you literally walked in front of his house ! 😆 he lives in Lugo inside the walls by the restaurants. Thank you Stuart ! Very refreshing video ! Relaxing and great music.
Great video again 👍, I like the new format.
Hi Stuart, Great tour, it is a very pretty place seems very quiet there, love the music, thank you for sharing, Take care
Stuart what a truly spectacular place clean with nice open spaces thank you for sharing
I am from Mexico but I have visited Lugo several times. Part of my heart is in Lugo, I love that city and Galicia too. Your video is wonderful, thank you very much for that tour.❤️🙏 I really miss Lugo!
Wow, what a beautiful place. Up until now I had no desire to travel as I am still not sure that it is safe but after watching this I am starting to feel maybe I could go somewhere. Thank you so much for the video even though all of my fears came at once, heights, walking over drains and birds flying close by. Thanks again Stuart.
Thanks for the visit to Lugo! Loved your choice of music also.
Took a rest day in Lugo while walking the Camino Primitivo a couple of years ago. Loved the city and particularly the amazing city walls. Thanks for the video.
Hi Stuart what a amazing place and buildings so beautiful and stunning thank you for showing me around xx
Very good vid Stuart, thanks from Lugo 👍🏿
Reminded me of my Camino. Galicia is when you feel the joy after your body and spirit have been tested.
WoW very cool city! Really cool how a large part of the city is surrounded by an old historical wall. Even more cool that you can actually walk across the top of it! Enjoyed checking the city out on Google Earth to gain even more perspective about how the city is designed around the wall.
Ben Kurth One of the very last towns fortified by the Romans, around the year 400ad I think, hence it has lasted so well. Spain is blessed with wonderful Roman remains.
If anyone is interested in the Camino de Santigo. The primitive way or the oldest route starts in Lugo, ends in Santiago de Compostela (102km) This route would take about week or less to complete. You can see the Camino markers in the beginning of the video.
Just like emilio estevez and martin sheen in the movie called the way in 2010.
Excellent tour. Lovely place
Hi Stuart, love your channel and thanks for the superb video as usual! I'm an Irishman living in Pamplona, Navarra and Lugo isn't too dissimilar to my adopted city. This week would usually be Pamplona's famous San Fermin celebration and running of the bulls, alas that's cancelled this year of course. Hopefully you'll be able to do a video about Pamplona some time soon! I look forward to seeing it. Keep up the good work!
Looks great, will be visiting in July for a couple of days when me are on a Vespa tour around the picos so looking forward to it as a little stop over, thanks for sharing
Love Galicia my family is from there, if you get a chance go to Muros De San Pedro , beautiful place and Louro next door has great beaches
I live there!, I saw the roman wall too in person and its more big than it looks. Thanks for visiting it :)
I think you were here a little before or a little after our Arde Lucus festival. Last year it was cancelled for the virus, there were just a few activities, with a lot of health measures, only to remind ourselves that the festival should have to be celebrated on those days. However, we changed it for an online festival, and I think it was pretty amazing, given the circumstances.
If you can come back another year, I truly think you'd enjoy the festival a lot. It's a historical recreation of our roman and celtic past, with lots of activities during 3-4 days. All day, and almost all night. It's almost impossible to see all the city has to offer during those days.
But it's not history all the time. In Lugo we know how to mix history and fiesta! People really enjoy it.
Thank you for the information. I just wonder if there is a connection, with the other Lugo towns in Italy, Mexico and France. Thanks again
@@USERRINZLER with Italy and France I guess it's because all three languages have the same root, latin.
As per México it's probable because of the colonization. There are other names copied from spanish towns and cities.
Thanks for the tour, wonderful place.
Never made up to that part of Spain, looks great...
Thanks for the walking tour, beautiful architecture and city, northern Spain looks beautiful. Thanks for showing
That was excellent thank you..very pretty ..great music too
Still looking for the name of this song after 2 years. 😅 I may have replayed this video about a 100 times by now because I love the music (but also the scenery!) so much!
Beautiful town.
Charming place Stu 👌🏼 really enjoyed your walking tour of Lugo 👍🏼 Thanks for sharing your Galicia adventures Amigo
Es precioso justo dónde nac
i gracias ¡¡ calle Catedral.
tierra de mis antepasados algun dia vicitare
What a lovely city! Thank you Stuart, lovely video, like a little movie. Music is so nice too!
Nice format! Thank you for the Lugo appetizer, looking forward to the full Galicia experience one day soon!
Thanks for the walking tour. Such a beautiful city.
Beautiful! Thanks for sharing!
awesome stuff mate looking forward to the next vid
Thanks stuart great tour such a shame no people around looks great
Enjoy your daily updates paul GB all the best
Lovely video, Stuart. Thanks for that.
What is the first piece of music you use here (would you mind having music credits in your video descriptions when you use music)?
Also, is this amount of graffiti exceptional or normal in Galicia, or Spain in general?
Thank-you for shearing 🙌
love the map to start, showing us where it is from where you live
Moving there.
Great video! Nice town; looks like there's lots for a visitor to see and do.
It seems very interesting, hopefully I`ll be able to visit in Oct.
I just looked at apartments for rent there! I didn't notice until I saw your thumbnail. I saw the same building in the pictures for the apartment. I think it was almost right next to it.
Nice vid Stuart. We did a mini Argo road trip and took in the Baiona area (Portsmouth ferry to Cherbourg, La Rochelle, Biarritz, Baiona and Porto) a couple of years ago to visit a friend at his lovely self-built villa among the pines overlooking the bay and islands for a few days. Beautiful countryside and coastline. The people were very welcoming and even with English not widely spoken, accepted that my Spanish was very limited, we managed to communicate locally with lots of smiles back. Really enjoyed the area and the run down to Porto. Crossing the Pyrenees from Biarritz into Spain was also quite spectacular, maybe worth a trip for you sometime?
What a wonderful looking place
Thanks Stuart, beautiful place
A+. Those weathered old walls look so Interesting! Modern buildings don't age well: if they get the chance..
Awesome tour! Thanks
Can anyone tell me the name of this song? I've been looking for it endlessly.
Hermosa ciudad de Lugo con hermanada convivencia de construcciones antiguas y modernas
Great video. Lugo looks beautiful. I had barely heard of the place only because they have a football team CD Lugo playing in the Segunda Division. I have only been to Galicia once. (Santiago de Compostela and La Coruña. I was not doing the camino.). I would like to go back to La Coruña sometime.
How is internal Spanish travel? What are trains and long distance buses like in la nueva normalidad. I would assume that AVE is probably quite safe as there is plenty of space to spread people out. Also in some AVE stations you have to check in and pass your bags thorugh a airport style x ray machine. In Madrid Puerta de Atocha, after you you pass security you wait upstairs in a kind of departure lounge and then show your ticket and go down a ramp onto the platform. I remember people being quite well spread out anyway so it would not be difficult to adapt. How are regional trains?
P.S. León and Ponferrada also look worth visiting.Maybe someday, I´ll have to hire a car in Madrid and go for a bit of a road trip.
Great video Stu, but leave out the background music please.. regards Tony (cuenca)
cual es el aeropuerto internacional mas sercano?
Like your tour. Reminds me of the old town in Ibiza. (Dault Villa)😎
Beautiful Video ..looks great.
Hi Stuart, what is the precentage of open businesses now? Lets assume boarders and flights traffic suddenly came back to normal, will visiting Spain now be boring due to the restrictions? What about Hotels and Airbnb's, are they adopting serious precaution measures?
Thanks
Enjoying your vlogs 👍🏻👍🏻
Wonderful keep the videos coming :)
nice video and the music works with the shots
Tha ks for the excellent video Stuart. Hope you can find the time to come to the Canaries and see my island of La Palma - La Isla Bonita ( the beautiful island.).
The north coast of Lugo province from Viveiro to Ribadeo is on lockdown. 71,000 people cannot leave the area and I presume tourists from outside cannot come in. Over 100 cases. And this happened just as the hotels were opening up. La Playa de las Catedrales, the iconic beach near Ribadeo, is in the zone. Asturias has tightened its border at Ribadeo so the virus doesn't spread into their territory.
Love Lugo!!
Looks like a lovely clean city unlike the UK where every street is strewn with litter.
Welcome to Galicia !!!!!
❤
Lucus Augusti is surrounded for one of best preserved Roman walls in the world
Great trip!
Great video!!
Beautiful
Looks lovely and clean....but a bit of a ghost town with little activity.
And pity about the tagging graffiti...!
Hi William , it seems the video was recorded at morning, the center of the town is just made for tourist, bars, terraces, restaurants, and interesting places like the cathedral, churches etc, july and August many people in Lugo has a second house in the countryside and it was just after the lockdown so probably many of locals escaped to the beach or the countryside, anyway Lugo is an small town so the activity isn´t like a big city, i live in Madrid and if i had the opportunity... i would prefer live in a place like Lugo
i see u have some style today, with some music, cool 🙂
Hola necesito si pudiera orientarme deseo retirarme en espana soy senior sola cual seria mejor ciudad con buen transporte publico buen clima y buena atencion medica gracias muy buen video❤
Are you caught now in the lock down ? Take care
Wow beautiful ❤️🌈
According to our local news that area is now in lock down again for the virus, it's unreal. Stay safe
Not exactly, not all the province of Lugo is now in lockdown, only the area of A Mariña in the north of the province is in 5-day lockdown at the moment, the capital of the province which Stuart has shown in this video isn't affected by that lockdown
I have never thought that this beautiful country now in totally destroyed by the so called virus ...When asymptomatics can't be ruled out from ill people then this situation will go on ages and living in Spain will be an agony
Spain and elsewhere else will rise like the Phoenix. We must not lose HOPE!
4:31 what's the name of that church??? 😍
Awww Galicia... Tierra de mi abuelito. La quiero mucho ❤️
hola lily, es la catedral de Lugo
@@polucus oh gracias!!! Yo me enteré que tiene una iglesia con nombre en francés en Lugo, es verdad? Hay alguna iglesia menor en Lugo que no sea catedral?
Lily Iglesias ツ hola ! Hay muchas iglesias en Lugo ciudad, San Francisco, san Roque, San Marcos , La soledad etc etc pero con nombre francés no me suena, quizás es en Lugo provincia tendrías monasterios u otras villas importantes como Samos, Monforte, Mondoñedo, Lorenzana etc etc la verdad está plagada de iglesias y monstarios de la época románica
@@polucus oh lo siento, pensé ter visto una iglesia con nombre en francés en Lugo en Google Maps. Pero estas que usted dijo todas están dentro de la muralla???
Lily Iglesias ツ hola !! No todas están dentro de la muralla aunque las más antiguas diría que si, no sabría decir que es lo que has visto quizás algún nombre en gallego ?
Thought you were in Avila.
@sfdanceron1, la muralla de Lugo es romana y la de Ávila medieval. Es típica la pregunta que haces: España es Andalucía, Castilla, Madrid, Cataluña, etc; excepto la desconocida y maravillosa Galicia. La muralla de Lugo con sus más de 2 kilómetros de longitud, es la mejor conservada del mundo e su estructura romana. Desde Santiago de Compostela, capital de Galicia y patrimonio de la humanidad, un saludo.
Lovely buildings but i was shocked by the large amount of graffiti.
Check out some photos of Vigo ... or Barcelona for that matter! Graffiti is everywhere, sometimes raised to an art form.
You're torturing me Stuart. Looks like I won't be able to return to Galicia this year
Can I get asylum from US politics in Spain?
When you arrive at Barajas airport they ask only one question of Americans. Do you support Trump? If you say you do, they will put you on the next flight home. If you say you don't, they will greet you with a big abrazo and a bienvenido.
@@rayvogensen2983 Really?? And to think I went to the trouble of getting a visa to live in Spain!
@@moltderenou Ah, my old nemesis is on the attack again. I missed the venom.
@@rayvogensen2983, very good, haha.
big lock downs in there now again in spain
Why are lovely cities such as this defaced by graffiti?
@@jblondon1327 ha! So true.
When you want to visit a place cuz it has your last name 😂😂😂
A sad sight. Looks like a ghost town with pretty much everything closed. I hope things will get better.
Chicas juventud chicos porque O te robaron
Spain 🇪🇸, get rid of your graffiti ‼️ It ruins a beautiful town 🤦♀️
You tricked us, Stuart. Yesterday you said that you were back in your apartment in Madrid. How did you find time to drive up to Lugo from Piornedo and then back to Madrid? I bet you were tired. Lugo is a beautiful little city, not the modern part but the area inside the Roman walls. I noticed the horrible graffitti calling for a vote for the anti-fascists. Lugo has the second largest population of Galego speakers (33%) after Santiago de Compostela (35%). That wall is about 2 kim. long and can be easily walked. Too bad though that almost nothing was said about the city. It seemed like a waste for anyone wanting to know more about Lugo. We only learned the name of the river Minho, the most important river in Galicia, which flows into the Atlantic and passes through Orense. Stuart, I hope your next videos gets better as far as information goes. There is so much history here and you ignored it.
Remember that 2 days ago no video was uploaded to the channel and in that day maybe he went to Lugo, filmed the images for this video and turned back to Madrid and yesterday he already was in Madrid
It's magic
It’s just a walking tour. I’m sure there are many videos that explore the history of the city out there! Stuart has done a lot of videos that feature him talking and maybe he wanted to rest his voice a bit. I enjoyed the change of pace in this one!
I don't think stuart's there to entertain us. I feel fortunate he included us in his holiday. The rest is up to you. Have a nice day.
I'm sure most people watching this video know how to put 'Lugo' into a search engine.