Santiago–Rosalía de Castro Airport
[2] The airport is located in the parish of Lavacolla, 12 km from Santiago de Compostela and handled 3,640,664 passengers in 2024.In 1935 construction work started at the airport where two years later on 27 September 1937 the first scheduled flight from Santiago de Compostela took place.[citation needed] After the Spanish Civil war, political prisoners (who were held in the concentration camp of Lavacolla) were forced to work in the construction of the airport.[citation needed] In June 1980, Iberia launched a seasonal flight to New York City on a Boeing 747.[citation needed] The new terminal at Santiago de Compostela Airport officially opened on 13 October 2011 and passenger operations transferred there the following day.It is adjacent to the old terminal and has a size of 74,000 sq m. It has 22 check-in desks, 3 security checkpoints, 4 baggage carousels, and 13 gates of which 5 have airbridges.The train station in Santiago de Compostela has regional, medium and long-distance high-speed Alvia services to most cities in Galicia, including A Coruña, Ferrol, Ourense, Pontevedra, Vilagarcía and Vigo; and further to Madrid Chamartín and the rest of Spain.
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