With three hundred years of history, the current market of Santiago has become the most famous point of the city next to the cathedral. Decide to buy or not, whether you have a kitchen or not, the market visitor has numerous services that will allow you to enjoy your...
The market of Santiago is the second most frequented place in the city, second only to the cathedral. It is one of the most lively places in Compostela, a special meeting place between pilgrims and visitors and the local population that, in addition, offers the...
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....
Manuel F. Rodríguez is a journalist, researcher and writer well known in the world of the Camino de Santiago, in which he has carried out important work as a technician for the Xacobeo. In recent years he has focused more and more on writing, either research or...
There are many pilgrims who, when arriving in Santiago, look for a place to eat or sleep for a while, where they can share their experiences with other companions and where they can reflect or meditate on the experience that has just been completed... Those pilgrims...
The history The Museo do Pobo Galego was founded in 1976 with the aim of investigating, conserving, disseminating, defending and promoting Galician culture in all its fields, particularly through the development of a museum that would represent these aims. The...
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 congress, which will take place at the Monte do Gozo Private Hostel (Santiago de Compostela) from October 19 to 22, will welcome representatives from the five continents. Santiago de Compostela will host the Second World Meeting of Associations of Friends of the...
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 Museum of Pilgrimages and Santiago is a must for any pilgrim or tourist passing through Compostela. For several years now it has been located near the cathedral, in Platerías square, where it occupies a beautiful building that was once known as the old Bank of...
The Memory of the Pilgrims is a compilation of current pilgrimage experiences, the experiences of 21st century pilgrims. This project is aimed at giving value to the most personal and subjective aspects of pilgrimages to Santiago: approaching the pilgrims one by one....