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The birth of Camilo José Cela in Iria Flavia

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The birth of Camilo José Cela in Iria Flavia

Historical milestone · Padrón, Sar, A Coruña

The future author of La colmena and Nobel laureate in literature of 1989 was born in 1916 in Iria Flavia, the old episcopal see prior to Compostela, where he also wished to be buried, in the atrium of the collegiate church.

1916

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