El Correo Gallego

Infobox_Newspaper
name = El Correo Gallego


type = Daily newspaper
format = Compact
founder = Manuel Comellas Coimbra/José María Abizanda
foundation = 1878
owners = Grupo Correo Gallego
headquarters = Santiago de Compostela, Galicia
editor = ?
publisher = ?
website = [http://www.elcorreogallego.es/ www.elcorreogallego.es]

"El Correo Gallego" is a Galician newspaper founded in Ferrol by José María Abizanda and Manuel Comellas Coímbra [http://ferrol.historia.tripod.com/elferrol1890s/] in 1878. About a century later it was moved to the capital of Galicia, as during the 1980s the new Galician Government was established there. From those years onwards, El Correo Gallego has been the most important newspaper of Santiago de Compostela and one of the main ones in Spain. It has 107,000 daily readers (OJD) with 5,000 distribution points in Galicia, Madrid, Barcelona and other Spanish cities.

Distribution

Since June 2001 this newspaper has been distributed throughout Spain together with the well-known Spanish daily broadsheet El Mundo.

See also

See also: El Ferrol Diario and El Mundo.

External links

* [http://ferrol.historia.tripod.com/elferrol1890s/ Extraordinary Issue of El Correo Gallego: The Launching of “El Cardenal Cisneros” in the Shipyards of El Ferrol - 1897]