Vintage Santiago de Compostela

[Theatregal]

I like to find vintage images of places I've lived or travelled to. A few of Santiago.

 

[mspath]

What wonderful historic photos; would you please share the source/date of these images.

MM

 

[Theatregal]

What wonderful historic photos; would you please share the source/date of these images.

MM

Except for the one of the boys with the botafumeiro, they are all old postcards found in various antique shops and second hand shops and bookstores along the way over the past few years. None have dates on them. I have found the same images online but the only one that had a date attached was the one of the women in front of the Porta Santa - it said pre-1910. A friend sent the one of the boys to me a while ago. I'll try to find out where he found it.

 

[mspath]

Thanks for your update; no need to go to any further trouble. As an art/architectural historian I love old views and prints. Your sepia photos of empty public spaces and women in long skirts recall discriptions by Georgina Goddard King in her fascinating early 1917 study The Way of Saint James first published 1920.

 

[Peter Fransiscus]

I like to find vintage images of places I've lived or travelled to. A few of Santiago.

Love the pictures , thank you for sharing.
Wish you well , Peter.

 

[Theatregal]

Thanks for your update; no need to go to any further trouble. As an art/architectural historian I love old views and prints. Your sepia photos of empty public spaces and women in long skirts recall discriptions by Georgina Goddard King in her fascinating early 1917 study The Way of Saint James first published 1920.

Thank you so much for the info about this book! I have just ordered Vol. 1.

 

[gerardcarey]

Thanks very much once again!
Regards
Gerard

 

[peregrina2000]

I like to find vintage images of places I've lived or travelled to. A few of Santiago.

Looks like all the windows of the now parador are thrown wide open. Does anyone kow what its use was after it was a pilgrim hospital and before it was a parador?

 

[Theatregal]

Looks like all the windows of the now parador are thrown wide open. Does anyone kow what its use was after it was a pilgrim hospital and before it was a parador?

I asked that very question of a staff member in the reception area of the parador when I was there last summer. She told me that it is thought to be the oldest continually running hotel in the world and that it was operating as a hostal before it was renovated to become a parador. I wasn't clear on when the shift from hospice to hostal happened or what year it became a parador. I've seen various dates - in the 1950's, 1960's and 1980's.

 

[SYates]

Looks like all the windows of the now parador are thrown wide open. Does anyone kow what its use was after it was a pilgrim hospital and before it was a parador?

The Spanish Wikipedia article states "Se utilizó como hospital hasta el siglo XIX. En el siglo XX se convirtió en Parador de Turismo con la denominación «Parador Museo Santiago»." "It was used as a hospital until the 19th century. In the 20th century it was converted in a Parador de Tourismo under the classification >Parador Museum Santiago.<" See https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital_de_los_Reyes_Católicos#Historia

There is also a lengthily English PDF on the Parador website itself with some historic information here: http://www.parador.es/sites/default/files/parador/adjuntos/2013/09/santiago_eng.pdf

Hope that helps, SY

 

[Theatregal]

Fireworks - Holy Year 1948

 

[Theatregal]

The Spanish Wikipedia article states "Se utilizó como hospital hasta el siglo XIX. En el siglo XX se convirtió en Parador de Turismo con la denominación «Parador Museo Santiago»." "It was used as a hospital until the 19th century. In the 20th century it was converted in a Parador de Tourismo under the classification >Parador Museum Santiago.<" See https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital_de_los_Reyes_Católicos#Historia

There is also a lengthily English PDF on the Parador website itself with some historic information here: http://www.parador.es/sites/default/files/parador/adjuntos/2013/09/santiago_eng.pdf

Hope that helps, SY

Thank you!!

 

[Pelegrin]

The Hostal de los Reyes Católicos was the Santiago hospital until 1953. On 24th July 1954 was open as a Parador with the presence of the future pope John XXIII.
My mother was operated of goiter in that hospital.
In 1912, the hospital was declared national monument, and the photo with all those well dressed people, including soldiers, suggests me the presence inside of the King of Spain because that event.

The photo in Praza Cervantes for me is clear, it shows three old women who probably went that day to Santiago from one village near (Labacolla?) to sell products (cheese, eggs, vegetables) and buy things (sugar, chocolate....).

What is not clear for me is what could have been doing those women at Porta Santa wearing rural clothes, one of them wears wooden shoes. I mean for most women it was not usual visiting the cathedral dressed in that way.

 

[Theatregal]

The Hostal de los Reyes Católicos was the Santiago hospital until 1953. On 24th July 1954 was open as a Parador with the presence of the future pope John XXIII.
My mother was operated of goiter in that hospital.
In 1912, the hospital was declared national monument, and the photo with all those well dressed people, including soldiers, suggests me the presence inside of the King of Spain because that event.

The photo in Praza Cervantes for me is clear, it shows three old women who probably went that day to Santiago from one village near (Labacolla?) to sell products (cheese, eggs, vegetables) and buy things (sugar, chocolate....).

What is not clear for me is what could have been doing those women at Porta Santa wearing rural clothes, one of them wears wooden shoes. I mean for most women it was not usual visiting the cathedral dressed in that way.

Thank you for this information. Really interesting to read your thoughts on the photos.

 

[RENSHAW]

I like to find vintage images of places I've lived or travelled to. A few of Santiago.

A while back I uploaded 10 or so images of Viana in an album which you can search for ' San Fermin Vintage Postcards' ( someone please help with a proper link , my computer skills are limited)
Below that first image is a short intro to Vintage postcards - use the top right direction button to view each image in the Album.
Ebay is a good source to find vintage postcards but perhaps an even better avenue is Delcampe postcards.

 

[mspath]

Here is Renshaw's postcard/post showing a Viana fountain.

Hey Viana fans! I've just uploaded 10 old views of Viana in the 'Photos' section. Here is just one of them. View attachment 14956

 

[RENSHAW]

Here is Renshaw's postcard/post showing a Viana fountain.

Thanx Margret ....I must learn how to do this - I will google and learn - ta.

 

[RENSHAW]

I like to find vintage images of places I've lived or travelled to. A few of Santiago.

If one selects 'Camino photos' and then scroll down to 'Browse Albums' - select .... then at the bottom select page 6 - I have written a note on collecting Vintage postcards under the 'San Fermin' view

 

[mspath]

Here is the link to Renshaw's Viana postcard album of 10 views.
https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/camino-photos/the-fountain.1620/
As he mentions use the right arrow to view all the postcards.

 

[Theatregal]

A while back I uploaded 10 or so images of Viana in an album which you can search for ' San Fermin Vintage Postcards' ( someone please help with a proper link , my computer skills are limited)
Below that first image is a short intro to Vintage postcards - use the top right direction button to view each image in the Album.
Ebay is a good source to find vintage postcards but perhaps an even better avenue is Delcampe postcards.

Fantastic! Thanks so much Renshaw - great to see these images.