A glace
by Santiago of Compostela
Compostela offers infinity of options to the visitor: to enjoy the monuments, the gastronomy, the traditional shops, the museums, the libraries, as well as the unique night life and with a special captivation. To discover Compostela is an easy task, but it is worth it.
This is a small advance of what it will be able to contemplate from only a few meters of our lodging residence:
The Plaza do Obradoiro (See photo), in which almost all the styles are represented, is considered to be one of the most beautiful squares of the world. The Cathedral (See photo), that there is, is the center on which the compostelana´s life has turned on from its biginning. The Cathedral is considered to be the most extraordinary and definitive creation of the Romanesque art and the most extraordinary monument of the Spanish middle ages.
In the Plaza das Platerías (See photo) you will find the Casa do Cabildo, work of Fernandez Sarela, of 1758. Raised to close worth the square, indeed, is almost a simple front, a set, with few interior functionality given its narrownesses
In the Plaza da Quintana dos Mortos (See photo), closing it south part, one finds the Casa da Conga, built in 1709 for chapter´s residence. In the same square we admire the great linen of closing of San Paio de Antealtares's monastery (See photo). It is the most oldest foundation of monastic character of Santiago of Compostela, governed in the first moment for monks destined to guard the tomb of the Apostle and managed now by Benedictine nuns, whose religious canticles are worth being listened. Already in Quintana dos Vivos one finds the Casa da Parra (See photo), beautiful civil construction of the 17th century, of baroque style, which at present is dedicated to exhibitions´room.
In the Plaza da Azabachería (See photo) or da Inmaculate Conception, one finds San Martiño Pinario´s monastery (See photo), without a doubt the most interesting architectural set after the Cathedral. This monastery began in the 16th century and remained concluded in the middle of the XVIIIth. It contains three big cloisters and a church of an extraordinary grandeur, which monumental Renaissance front is a work of Mateo Lopez and Gonzalez Araujo, to which one accedes for a few curious stairs from San Martiño's Plaza. Nowadays it is dedicated to seminar and to students' residence. You will have a vantage point of view on this monastery with only put your´s face to the window of your room.