Re: Santiago Cathedral - Early Chapel - La Toja
Is this the one? My pilgrim friend in Galacia lives nearby and sent the pictures.
Outside wall covered with the flat bottoms of coquilles Saint Jacques (vieiras).
PS: There is more (names) than meets the eye:
More on the Ermita de San Sebastián on
http://www.trivago.es/la-toja-102646/ca ... /fotos/x10
Original hermitage in the Toja
In the island of the Toja, in the municipality of Or Grove, is forced visit this most original hermitage, whose origin is placed in century XII, although the present plant is of the XIX. It is not that architectonic it has special interest, nor their interior is especially rich or valuable, but is a very singular construction, because she covered with scallop shells is all, absolutely everything!
http://www.infohub.com/TRAVEL/SIT/sit_pages/11232.html
The maritime and river route along the Arousa estuary and the river Ulla commemorates, according to tradition, the arrival by sea to Galicia of the body of the Apostle St. James the Greater, after his martyrdom in Jerusalem in the year 44 AD. St. James was a sailor and fisherman from Galilee, an apostle of Christ, the evangelizer of the West, and a martyr. The episode on his death, ordered by Herod Agrippa, is contained in St. Luke's "Acts of the Apostles". We disembark in O Grove and board our Mini-van to take us to a luxurious Spa hotel on La Toja Island. Here we stop to see an interesting Church decorated with Scallop shell (A cultural symbol of the Camino) on the exterior.
http://www.onpedia.com/destinations/eur ... oxa-island
La Toja/A Toxa Island, together with the Island of Arousa, one of the great island spaces in the province. Joined to O Grove peninsula through a bridge built at the beginning of the present century, A Toxa started to develop as a result of the construction of its spa. Hotels and sports and leisure centres sprouted up round it. Its natural locations and the peculiar hermitage of San Caralampio (12th cent.), covered with scallop shells, are of particular beauty.
Also see Georgiana's Gems #9 Iria Flavia (Padr6n) by PILGRIMSPLAZA on April 15th, 2009, 2:19 am on
santiago-to-finisterre-and-muxia/topic5804.html#p33917
Foto ermita toja
http://videospark.webcindario.com/o%20grove.htm