Settlement Type: | Municipality |
Official Name: | Rairiz de Veiga |
Pushpin Map: | Spain |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Spain |
Coordinates: | 42.0833°N -57°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Spain |
Subdivision Type1: | Autonomous community |
Subdivision Type2: | Province |
Subdivision Type3: | Comarca |
Subdivision Name3: | A Limia |
Area Total Km2: | 72.1 |
Area Footnotes: | [1] |
Elevation M: | 622 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Timezone: | CET |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Timezone Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Josefa Asunción Morgade Rúa |
Leader Party: | PP |
Rairiz de Veiga is a municipality in the province of Ourense, in the autonomous community of Galicia, Spain. It belongs to the comarca of A Limia.
A same-sex marriage between two men, Pedro Dias and Muño Vandilas, occurred on 16 April 1061 in Rairiz de Veiga. They were married by a priest at a small chapel. The historic documents about the church wedding were found at Monastery of San Salvador de Celanova.[2]