Galicia
"Os Pinos" (The Pine Trees)

Words by: Eduardo Pondal
Music by: Pasqual Veiga
Adopted: 1923

Galicia is in the northwest part of Spain. With its own culture, it also has its own anthem "Os Pinos". The Galician National Anthem was performed for the first time in 1907 in Havana, and in 1923 the Galician National Anthem was sung by regionalists and advocates of land reform at their meetings, and little by little became more and more accepted by many more. Banned during Franco's fascist regime, in 1975, during a nationalist gathering in the Festival of the Apostle, the public began to stand up as the National Anthem was sung in a very heart-moving act. A year later the custom became permanent in the Quintana Square of Santiago even though it was never ratified by the Spanish authorities. The custom is nowadays a nationalist and revindicative act.

See also: Spain.