Province of León

The Province of León ( leonesisch: Llion ) is a province in northwestern Spain. It has 489 752 inhabitants (2013 ) and belongs to the Autonomous Region of Castile -Leon. Capital and largest city is Leon, the second largest city is Ponferrada.

In the north of the province bordering Asturias and Cantabria, on the west by the region of Galicia, in the south of Zamora and Valladolid, and on the east by Palencia. It has an area of ​​15,581 km ². Located in the very scenic province, between the mountains of northern Spain and the high level, there are several natural parks ( Parque Nacional de los Picos de Europa, Los Ancares, Las Médulas, Cueva de Valporquero ).

As for the Culinary, the sausages ( Sausages ) and the wines ( Bierzo, Valdevimbre - Los Otero ) are worth mentioning. Through the province into north-south direction of the Ruta de la Plata and east-west direction of the Way of St. James (Spanish: Camino de Santiago). In some areas, the Leon is called Leonesisch, an ancient dialect, which, together with the Asturian Galician - Portuguese between a transition and the actual Castilian ( Spanish ), an Ibero-Romance language.

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