page_title: Samos, Lugo
section_title: Culture
hierarchical_section_title: Samos, Lugo / Culture
caption_attribution_description: Galego: Mosteiro de San Xulián de Samos, Samos, Galicia - España. Español: Monasterio de San Xulián de Samos, Samos, Galicia - España. Français&#160;: Monastère de San Xulián de Samos en Galice (Espagne).
context_page_description: Samos is a municipality in the province of Lugo in Galicia, Spain. It contains the village of Samos.
context_section_description: The village of Samos is located approximately 11 kilometers from Sarria and 45 kilometers from Lugo. It is home to an abbey, the Real Abadía de Samos, and the Benedictine monastery of San Xulián de Samos. Pilgrims on the Way of St. James to Compostela often pass through Samos to visit the abbey and monastery. There is a refuge (accommodation) that the pilgrims can use freely at the Royal Benedictine Abbey of St. Julian of Samos. The abbey, one of the most important religious centers of Galicia, is dated the sixth century, a period in which the Swabian territories inhabited what is now known as Galicia.
  Samos is bordered in the north by the municipality of Láncara; in the south by Folgoso do Courel and A Pobra do Brollón; in the east by Triacastela, Pedrafita do Cebreiro and Folgoso do Courel; and in the west by Sarria and O Incio. Samos belongs to the judicial party of Sarria and to the diocese (province of the Church) of Lugo.
caption: The Monastery of San Xulián de Samos
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