Dominic de la Calzada

Domingo Garcia, Santo Domingo de la Calzada later (* in Viloria de Rioja, Spain, † May 12, 1109 Santo Domingo de la Calzada, Spain) was a patron of the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in Rioja, Spain.

He was born in Viloria de Rioja, near the town of Santo Domingo de la Calzada, which he later founded and where he was to give his name.

He studied at the San Millán de Suso monastery, but was not accepted as a monk. He then settled near the Santo Domingo de la Calzada later and led a hermit's life. The area was unsafe border area, only partially cultivated as a way there was little or decaying Roman gebahnte and uneven new ways in the woods lurking muggers. When he met more and more stray pilgrims, he devoted his life to. 1044 he put a bridge over the Oja to be Hospital / Herbergsbau ( late Gothic renewed ) is now the Parador and renewed roads ( Calzada ). Ditto should he have built the predecessor of the cathedral. Following the acquisition of La Rioja in 1076 by ​​Alfonso VI. he learned unconditional support shuffle mode.

He died in 1109. To his grave was the market town of Santo Domingo de la Calzada.