Urban growth around the Santiago cathedral - detailed history

[Bradypus]

Just came across an interesting article on the history of the cathedral and its surroundings. A detailed description of changes over time since the founding of the cathedral and how local conditions shaped the later plan of buildings and plazas.

El desarrollo urbano de Santiago de Compostela en torno a su catedral y la peregrinación jacobea

A partir del descubrimiento de la tumba del apóstol Santiago, la actual capital gallega inició una transformación urbana en torno a la figura del santo y su catedral, convirtiendo a la ciudad en un epicentro de peregrinación y cultura que, aún hoy en día, impresiona a los visitantes

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[Icacos]

This looks so interesting. I look forward to reading it, just as soon as I figure out how to work Google Translate.

 

[Bradypus]

This looks so interesting. I look forward to reading it, just as soon as I figure out how to work Google Translate.

I use Google Chrome as my browser. It handles translations automatically and usually does a decent job with Spanish and Galego. Not perfect but intelligible. Almost miraculous to watch it make passable English from a page of text in Japanese!

 

[Icacos]

I use Google Chrome as my browser. It handles translations automatically and usually does a decent job with Spanish and Galego. Not perfect but intelligible. Almost miraculous to watch it make passable English from a page of text in Japanese!

It worked! Thank you so much! Now I’ll have a good read; of that, and a bunch of other stuff.

 

[Bradypus]

It worked! Thank you so much! Now I’ll have a good read; of that, and a bunch of other stuff.

Glad to hear it It really is an extraordinarily powerful tool. I regularly read articles posted on Japanese websites, Spanish and Portuguese news articles, and the occasional exotic thing from places like Lithuania. The translations are not perfect - or at least they sometimes appear quite clunky in English to the ignorant monoglot reader like myself. But they are usually good enough to carry the meaning and that will do for me!

 

[willydp]

For the interested: Old maps starting 1783

Xeoportal

xeoportal.santiagodecompostela.gal

Enjoy

 

[Bradypus]

Another useful article from the same source today. This time focussed on the Romanesque period of the cathedral in Santiago.

Así era la catedral románica de Santiago que maravilló a los peregrinos del siglo XII

La catedral románica de Santiago de Compostela, elogiada en el siglo XII por Aymeric Picaud en el Codex Calixtinus, se alzaba como un imponente santuario apostólico en construcción. Su grandiosidad, luminosidad y acústica sagrada, junto con las numerosas reliquias que atesoraba, atraían a...

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