- SANTIAGO COMPOSTELA  -

 Fantastic and wonderful legend and histories we have heard of this fascinating city, to which it lead one of the longest and interesting ways of the Average Age; the Way of Santiago, declared Patrimony of the Humanity by UNESCO. We arrived at the city with a smooth rain for which it was not necessary to use the umbrella, and to noon we were with a splendid sun in the seat of the Obradoiro, impressive heart of the city, agglomerate with thousand of tourists and people of the place. With Hispanic grandiloquence all the relative one to the apostle is dealt.

All it makes an impression to us, the great beauty of an old helmet that covers almost all the city, the charming Galician atmosphere, the delicious gastronomy and the light wines that abound in the taverns of their narrow and fascinating side streets, the university atmosphere that as much life gives to the city during the day and the night. Santiago is a precious stone of Spain, the one that crowns a wonderful way that during travelling and adventurous centuries did on foot. One has said that Obradoiro means "gold work". Be certain or no, precious brilliant and is the result. This seat, of an exceptional beauty, is the heart of the museum that is the city of Santiago.

To the same one, in a moving harmony, perhaps by "the miracle of the rain that unifies everything" as it said Ballester Torrent, they give monuments of very varied style: The Cathedral, whose construction began at the time of greater splendor of Santiago, in 1075. We began in the Chapel of the Salvador, outstanding prerománica influence in its rectangular plant to the outside. His second stage of construction begins after the marriage of Doña Urraca with Raimundo of Burgundy, which imprimiría to the temple a clear influence of the Romanesque French ending at an own style; the Romanesque compostelano. Of this time it is the facade of the Obradoiro, although later, respecting their románica structure the decorative baroque elements were added to him that today are appraised mainly in the Tower of the Bells and the Tower of the Carrack.

By the Door of the Obradoiro "Old Cathedral" enters the call, that is in fact the Cripta, románica church with Latin cross plant that introduced in its construction the first vaults of crucería that until then had in Spain. The Porch of the Gloria constitutes so exceptional a Romanesque escultórico set that him it has been considered the most finished "medieval iconográfico monument".

Alicante	Barcelona	Bilbao	Burgos
Cadiz	Cordoba	Girona	Granada

Logronno	Madrid	Palma de Majorca	Salamanca
San Sebastian	Santander	Santiago de Compostela	Seville

Tarragona	Toledo	Valencia	Saragossa
Alcala de Henares	Aranjuez	Corunna	Gijon

Granollers	Huelva	Huesca	Jaen
Jerez de la Frontera	Malaga	Merida	Murcia

Oviedo	Pontevedra	Reus	San Lorenzo del Escorial
Segovia	Soria	Vitoria	Pamplona