the story of its name

The story of the city begins on the first century with the roman legion: Legio VII Germina installed in the place a permanent military camp. The name of the city derives from the roman legion. They had to protect the territory from the Astures and Cantabrians and the main thing to protect was the gold they extracted from the golden mines in Las Médulas.

TYPICAL FOOD

The typical food in León is very varied.It highlight the activity of "Tapear" ,very known by all.

That is very related with the meat, lamb, pig and all products of big quality that can cook of a lot of forms: "Lechazo asado", "Botillo del Bierzo", "Cocido Maragato"...

There is a big variety of fruits and of cheeses and desserts, for example:" Mantecadas de Astorga", " Imperiales de la Bañeza" " Nicanores de Boñar", "Amarguillos de Sahagún", "Huesos de santo"...

INTRODUCTION

Hello! We are Jesús, Ruth, Alba and Cristina and we are going to show and explain you a little about how León is and how is the way of life here so...Let`s go!!!
León is a city which has 120.000 inhabitants and 39 km2 approximately, and it`s located in the North-West of Spain.
It`s a beautiful and relaxing place which has a rich variety of art movements, interesting museums and small but pretty parks.
About the weather, we could say that León is not a warm city. In summer, it`s not very hot (approximately 25 degrees), and in winter it`s very cold and most times it coulds rain and snow.

OUR UNIVERSITY

ACTIVITIES IN THE CAMPUS OF "VEGAZANA" (LEÓN)

There are a lot of activities which you can to use in this campus as library, service of internationals relations, a building of computing where you can to work or to look for information, a building of sports and three coffe shops where you can to eat the set menu and to have a coffe.

FACULTIES AND SCHOOLS

There are a lot of posibilities for to stydy as, for example: Faculty of Veterinary Science
,Faculty of Biology,Faculty of Arts,Faculty of Economy Science,Faculty of Work Science, Faculty of Education, Faculty of Hearth Science, Faculty of Sports Science, School of tourism...

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TUNA

Tuna in musical terms is a group made up of university students. The Tuna of the University of Lion is the fruit of a lot of months of coexistence, shared by the four Tunas of the City: "Tuna Universitaria de León", "Tuna de Derecho de León", "Tuna de Veterinaria de León" and "Tuna de Ingenieros Agrónomos de León".

All they have crowd of prizes obtained in the competitions to which have gone along the last years and And the privilege to have visited our Peninsula, Europe, America and the Hoces of Vegarada.

They carry a green scholarship, the colour of our university, colour taken by the proper Institution in recognition to that the Empower of Veterinary was the first of León, to which represent with pride where want to that they go.

Monuments

No doubt we have to talk about some interesting monuments of León, for instance: The Cathedral, a gothic temple in honor of Santa María what it was built in 13th century. It was inspirited on the French cathedral and it has three naves, with gothic vaults. The particular trait is that the towers are separated from the main structure.

San Isidoro Basilic is one of the most important temple in romanic style. Its royal pantheon paintings are the Sistine chapel of the romanic. The King Fernando I and his wife Doña Sancha made the donation to support the built of San Juan Bautista Monastery. When the bishop of Seville San Isidoro died, his body was buried on the temple.

San Marcos Convent was built with the support of the catholic King and Queen near the ancient bridge of San Marcos, bridge for the pilgrims to cross the Bernesga river. The convent was before a prison, where there was put on cage celebrate people like Francisco Quevedo. Then it was the seat of the first veterinary faculty and even in the civil war it was a refugee camp. Nowadays, it´s a luxury hotel.

Musac is the contemporary museum of art of Castile and León. It was designed by the architec study Tuñon and Mansilla and it won the Mies Van der Roe architecture award on 2007. The front of the building was inspired on the cathedral stained glass windows: el halconero.

ESPICHAS

"Espichas" are the most popular thing in the university world. Every faculty choose the day when they are going to celebrate their "Espichas". For example, we are studying teacher training and our day is the 26th of November.
This day we prepare a big party and we don`t have lesson during all the day so we built a big marquee where you cand find music, food and drink like beer, "calimocho" (wine with coke) and more things.
"Espichas" begin at 12:00 more or less and end about 00:00 and people of all campus come to have a good time. Moreover, you have grass around and if you want you can eat and sleep a "siesta" there.
When "espichas" finish, people go house to have a shower and to dress and make-up and later they go to the "Humedo" to continue party.
In the "Humedo" people go to different bars and pubs and when they are tired, they go home and for them, the "espicha" has finished.

GOOD CUSTOMS: "SIESTA"

First of all, we want to say that "siesta" is not only a custom of León. All Spain is characterized by "siesta".
When people have finished eating, most of them lie down on the sofa (generally) and sleep for a time (more or less like to have a nap). There are people whose "siesta" last one-two hours but experts recommend about 30 minutes of "siesta".
It is fantastic (if you have time) because it is a free moment in the day to have a break and later you are more active to finish the day.