Vega de Valcarce

Vega de Valcarce is a municipality located in the province of León, Castile and León, Spain. It is framed in the beautiful Valcarce Valley, which follows the course of the French Way for 14 kilometers before reaching Galicia.
The origin of this town dates from the eleventh century and, according to popular legend, is born of a Galician family that before building the first house lived a few months inside a chestnut tree.
The history of the town is closely related to the Camino de Santiago and the medieval entrance to the Kingdom of Galicia. The entire Valcarce valley formed a lordship in the Middle Ages and, for a good part of it, powerful archbishops of Compostela placed in the area numerous feudal lords who divided the lordship in the region.
The feudal lords imposed on anyone who wanted to pass to Galicia a payment known as "portazgo", something like a toll like those we know today. In 1702 King Alfonso VI intervened to suppress this privilege, however it would not disappear until many years later.
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