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CULTURAL SANTIAGO
SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA - MARCH 2007This is the last post dedicated to the 2007 visit to Santiago de Compostela. Further to the Cathedral and the churches, Santiago has a public University founded in the early 16th century. With more than 2,000 teache...
PARIS - DAKAR
SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA - MARCH 2007 Santiago is mostly known for its Cathedral and for the famous pilgrimage on the Camiño. But being also a city with around 40,000 students (in a population of roughly more than 90,000 people) and more than 200 bar...
SANTIAGO'S CHURCHES
SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA - MARCH 2007The Cathedral is of course the most impressive building in Santiago de Compostela. Anyhow, even in religious terms, Santiago has much more to offer. This post, strolling through the city, shows just a small part of ...
VISITING THE CATHEDRAL
SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA - MARCH 2007The interior of the Cathedral consists of a nave, two lateral aisles, a wide transept and a choir with chapels. Being 97m long and 24m high, it's the largest Romanesque church in Spain and one of the largest in Euro...
SANTIAGO'S CATHEDRAL
SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA - MARCH 2007Santiago's cathedral, the end destination of the Camiño de Santiago, is the alleged burial-place of Saint James the Great, one of the apostles of Jesus Christ. In 1075, the construction of the current granite cathe...
O CAMIÑO DE SANTIAGO
HOSTAL DE LOS REYES CATÓLICOS - MARCH 2007Santiago de Compostela, the capital of the autonomous community of Galicia and a UNESCO's World Heritage Site since 1985, is the famous destination of one of the most important medieval pilgrimages: «The Wa...
