MONFORTE DE LEMOS

city, Lugo province, in the autonomous community (region) of Galicia, northwestern Spain. The city grew up around the 10th-century Benedictine Abbey of San Vicente del Pino (now a hospital) and became the capital of the county of Lemos in the 12th century. Dominating Monforte is the medieval keep of the counts, built on the site of a Roman camp. The chapel of the old Jesuit college has paintings by El Greco, Andrea del Sarto, and Hugo van der Goes. Monforte is a railroad junction and livestock-trading centre, with iron mines nearby. Pop. (1981) 19,382.