The Xunta of Galicia wishes to express its satisfaction and celebrates UNESCO’s inclusion of the Codex Calixtinus in the Memory of the World Register, thus recognising its great value and significance. Following the recommendation of the International Consulting Committee, the medieval manuscript, which is kept in the archives of the Santiago Cathedral, is now part … Read more
Venue: Auditorio do Hostal dos Reis Católicos. Santiago de Compostela Date: 9–11 November 2017 Organized by: International Committee of Experts on the Way of St. James and Turismo de Galicia Director: Paolo Caucci von Saucken, chairman of the International Committee of Experts on the Way of St. James Aim The aim of the 10th International … Read more
On 10 November 2016, while opening up a wall in the chamber located in the lower part of the cathedral bell tower in order to remove the image by Master Mateo buried in the same area and discovered a few days earlier, when the perpend stones that made up the wall were removed, a fragment … Read more
Curated by Ramón Yzquierdo Peiró, the show – which will be open to visitors until February 23 of next year – brings together for the first time in one place several pieces of the artist’s legacy that once formed part of groups and areas of Santiago Cathedral that no longer exist. These include the medieval … Read more
Santiago de Compostela, 22 June 2017 The 100,000th pilgrim to complete the Way of St. James in 2017 reached Compostela today and was welcomed at the end of the journey by the Santiago Cathedral Chapter, headed by Dean Segundo Pérez, along with Xacobeo Manager Rafael Sánchez, representing Turismo de Galicia. The pilgrims who marked the … Read more
Turismo de Galicia presents Number VII of the research journal on the Camino de Santiago and the world of pilgrimages, Ad Limina. Edition Number VII of Ad Limina was coordinated by Professor Manuel Castiñeiras, member of the International Committee of Experts on the Camino de Santiago, with the intervention of several of its members – … Read more