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The entry of the bubonic plague through the port of O Grove

O Grove, Salnés, Pontevedra

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The entry of the bubonic plague through the port of O Grove

Historical milestone · O Grove, Salnés, Pontevedra

Image of O Grove, not of the place itself.

The epidemic entered Galicia through the port of O Grove and then spread across the country; to the memory of that mortality is attributed the building of the chapel of San Roque, in the seventeenth century.

1562

Photo: Luis Miguel Bugallo Sánchez (Lmbuga) (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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