| Church of Santa María a Real do Sar | |
|---|---|
| Native name Galician: Igrexa de Santa María a Real do Sar | |
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| Location | Santiago de Compostela, Spain |
| Coordinates | 42°52′21″N8°32′13″W / 42.872439°N 8.536989°W Coordinates: 42°52′21″N8°32′13″W / 42.872439°N 8.536989°W |
| Area | Galicia |
| Built | 12th Century |
| Architectural style(s) | Roman |
| Official name: Igrexa de Santa María a Real do Sar | |
| Type | Non-movable |
| Criteria | Monument |
| Designated | 1895 |
| Reference no. | RI-51-0000071 |
  Location of Church of Santa María a Real do Sar in Spain | |
The Church of Santa María a Real do Sar (Galician: Igrexa de Santa María a Real do Sar) is a church located in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. It was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1895.[ citation needed ]The church lies on the banks of the Sar river, which flows past Santiago.
Galician is an Indo-European language of the Western Ibero-Romance branch. It is spoken by some 2.4 million people, mainly in Galicia, an autonomous community located in northwestern Spain, where it is official along with Spanish. The language is also spoken in some border zones of the neighbouring Spanish regions of Asturias and Castile and León, as well as by Galician migrant communities in the rest of Spain, in Latin America, the United States, Switzerland and elsewhere in Europe.
Santiago de Compostela is the capital of the autonomous community of Galicia, in northwestern Spain.
Spain, officially the Kingdom of Spain, is a country mostly located on the Iberian Peninsula in Europe. Its territory also includes two archipelagoes: the Canary Islands off the coast of Africa, and the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean Sea. The African enclaves of Ceuta, Melilla, and Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera make Spain the only European country to have a physical border with an African country (Morocco). Several small islands in the Alboran Sea are also part of Spanish territory. The country's mainland is bordered to the south and east by the Mediterranean Sea except for a small land boundary with Gibraltar; to the north and northeast by France, Andorra, and the Bay of Biscay; and to the west and northwest by Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean.
