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    Camo replied to the thread Entry to the Cathedral.
    Thanks heaps Kath - all is now clear love the way there is a peep hole window for Mateus bloke to keep an eye on the building works (and other "things")
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    Camo reacted to Kathar1na's post in the thread Entry to the Cathedral with Like Like.
    Beware of webpages that have not been updated. This English text refers to the time when there was scaffolding because of the restoration works and which did not embellished viewing the Portico if you could view it at all during the works. This...
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    Camo replied to the thread Entry to the Cathedral.
    Looks like the cathedral website was also concerned per the word "mutilated" "A masterpiece of the universal history of art, currently mutilated by the reforms carried out in its façade." The google Trekker panos were in 2021 and show the...
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    Camo replied to the thread The Way 2 - Characters.
    Well another thread here says Tom heads off to do some good for OTHERS pro bono as an eye doctor in the jungle some place for Doctors without Borders (or maybe Fred Hollows Foundation) or whoever rather than return to a Camino trail - but we are...
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    Camo replied to the thread Entry to the Cathedral.
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    Sorry about slow it was just my broadband taking a time out but the main item is the portico of glory and it shows a pre 2012 version where there is no wood panel with poor Jesus hanging off the inside but completely open access to put fingers...
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    Camo replied to the thread Entry to the Cathedral.
    Thanks David I'll see how that translates on Google Maps
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    lots of advertising and cookies and very slow to operate
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    Camo replied to the thread Entry to the Cathedral.
    Thanks for all those replies but nobody mentioned the (horrible) modern (blonde) woodwork blocking the whole portal in all 3 spaces with tiny doors and glass in the middle. Here is closeup of James's head with finger holes above and the woodwork...
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    OK I am now the full bottle on the Botafumeiro thanks to all the replies but IF I make it to Santiago as I hope I really would like to climb those steps, enter through those huge doors and gaze upon the Portico of Glory as our heroes did in The...

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