Economy
Lugo is a city of services. The main activities are commercial, the administration (offices of the autonomous and central Governments) and educational and health services (the recently opened Hospital Universitario Lucus Augusti is the largest in Galicia). The steady increase of population of the city makes the construction of a major economic sectors of the municipality. The industry is very scarce and almost exclusively dedicated to the processing of agricultural products (dairy, meat, timber ...).
There is a big shopping center in the outskirts of the city (As Termas), with a Eroski hypermarket, cinemas, clothing stores like H&M, NewYorker or Cortefiel and many restaurants and fast food chains like McDonald's. It's also in construction a new shopping center (Abella), which will host a E.Leclerc hypermarket.
The University of Santiago de Compostela has several faculties in Lugo Campus, emphasizing the Faculty of Veterinary, one of the leading in its field in Spain.
Daily newspaper El Progreso, is published in the city. It's the most read newspaper in the province of Lugo.
There is private aerodrome in the nearby town of Rozas, owned by the Spanish Ministry of Defence and administered by Real Aero Club de Lugo. In 2011, the Ministry of Defence transferred the installations to INTA, the Spain's space agency, in order to convert it in a center of aeronautical research,
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