The church of Santa María Salomé Compostela is the only one under such a title in the whole of Spain. It was built during the period of the Archbishop Diego Gelmírez’s ministry (1100 -1140), whom we have already referred to as a tireless defender and promoter of the...
With its great antiquity and its close relationship with the foundation of the city and the cathedral of Compostela, the church of San Fiz de Solovio is shrouded in legend. Thus it is referred to in many itineraries of pilgrims from other times, such as Leo of...
In the days of its archbishops Diego Peláez (1070-1088) and Diego Gelmírez (1070? -1140), the Romanesque basilica of Santiago was conceived- and conceived as a whole, as a perfectly interlocking structure where nothing was left to chance. Its architecture and sculpted...
The site of the Collegiate of Santa María del Sar, outside the medieval walls of Compostela, plays an important part in the long Jacobean tradition. The Sar neighborhood is named after the river which runs through it and is the entrance for the pilgrims who come from...
The church of the monastery of San Martín Pinario gives onto the square of the same name, located in the northern part of the monumental city. Given the large dimensions of the monastic complex, it is located quite far from the best-known façade of the monastery and...
The monastery of San Martín Pinario occupies an immense space north of the cathedral of Santiago. We emphasize its dimensions because with its dependencies it constitutes the second largest complex in Spain, being second only to the monastery of El Escorial in Madrid....
Located a few meters from the Cathedral of Santiago, the Benedictine monastery of San Paio is known above all for the magnificent wall that gives onto the Plaza de la Quintana, in front of the Puerta Santa. This extraordinary piece of architecture contains dozens of...
The church of Santa Susana is perched on a hill in the center of an oak grove, which crowns the park of the Alameda. It is a place with fine views of the cathedral in which there probably existed a Roman village. It is not strange that such a pre-eminent site for the...
The west façade of the Cathedral of Santiago takes its name from the square which it gives onto: Obradoiro in Galician, workshop in English, an allusion to the workshops and the stonemasons that it housed for centuries while work was being carried out on the...