exhibitions https://blog.caminodesantiago.gal Fri, 05 May 2023 07:27:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 /wp-content/uploads/2026/07/cropped-favicon-xacobeo2027-32x32.png exhibitions https://blog.caminodesantiago.gal 32 32 Welcoming and Hospitality on the Camino de Santiago. Photographs by Manuel G. Vicente 🗓 https://blog.caminodesantiago.gal/en/welcoming-and-hospitality-on-the-camino-de-santiago-photographs-by-manuel-g-vicente-2/ https://blog.caminodesantiago.gal/en/welcoming-and-hospitality-on-the-camino-de-santiago-photographs-by-manuel-g-vicente-2/#respond Thu, 27 Apr 2023 10:49:27 +0000 /?p=12560 Read more]]> A creative experience of hospitality and solidarity lived through beside the pilgrims on the Camino de Santiago, in the hostels and at the goal of the Jacobean Pilgrimage.

A shared area of universal values
Hospitality, the welcoming of the pilgrim is a value which for centuries has been considered the cornerstone of the Camino de Santiago. A form of spirituality poetically depicted in the photographs which Manuel G. Vicente took along the Camino, on the route and in hostels during recent decades. The heart-warming welcome is fused with the experience of the encounter, solidarity, friendship and mutual understanding. Added to this are the values of the landscapes, the shared history and culture.

An experience of communication and affection
As the days pass, communication at several levels occurs on the Camino. In the first place, the pilgrim communicates with himself, the interior language is essential in the pilgrimage experience. Introspection leads to reflexive, personalised self-construction, in which each person recreates his experiences through memory and affection.

In the second place, communication is established with the Camino itself and, finally, with the companions on the route, with the “hospitaleros” and the local people. The mental or spiritual space of the Camino de Santiago, evoked and recreated, is shaped through the affectivity of the person experiencing it; towns, cities, historical places and natural landscapes assume affective values in this spontaneous construction. A sensitive framework in which fertile communication takes place among the pilgrims, their natural environment and other persons.

Venue: Casa de Galicia en Madrid
Addresse: C/ Casado del Alisal, 8. Madrid

Dates: May 4 – June 1, 2023
Timetable: From Monday to Saturday, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Sundays and holidays, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Organiser: Turismo de Galicia. Xunta de Galicia
Collaborators: Casa de Galicia en Madrid

]]> https://blog.caminodesantiago.gal/en/welcoming-and-hospitality-on-the-camino-de-santiago-photographs-by-manuel-g-vicente-2/feed/ 0 Exhibition: FROM SEA TO SEA. The Way of St James in 3D 🗓 https://blog.caminodesantiago.gal/en/exhibition-from-sea-to-sea-the-way-of-st-james-in-3d-2/ https://blog.caminodesantiago.gal/en/exhibition-from-sea-to-sea-the-way-of-st-james-in-3d-2/#respond Sun, 27 Dec 2020 07:31:19 +0000 http://blog.caminodesantiago.gal/?p=11532 Read more]]> The 3D exhibition From Sea to Sea. The Way of St James in 3D is a 3-dimensional photography show featuring spectacular large pieces produced using a stereographic technique. The exhibition presents images of the pilgrimage routes, heritage sites, landscapes and pilgrims on the English Route, Fisterra–Muxía Route, Portuguese Route and Portuguese Coastal Route.

The title of the show is a reference to the sea of the Atlantic routes which open the exhibition, the sea of the Portuguese and Galician coasts that is so strongly linked to the Portuguese pilgrimage routes to Santiago. And it ends with the open ocean along the Costa da Morte, the physical and symbolic finishing point of the route to Fisterra and Muxía, after reaching Compostela.

Location: City Hall Exhibition Hall
Address: Edificio Área Panorámica. Rúa Colón, 2. Tui

Dates: December 28, 2020 to March 6, 2021
Schedule: Monday to Saturday from 09:00 to 14:00 and from 16:00 to 21:00

]]> https://blog.caminodesantiago.gal/en/exhibition-from-sea-to-sea-the-way-of-st-james-in-3d-2/feed/ 0 Exhibition: Galicia: a story in the world 🗓 🗺 https://blog.caminodesantiago.gal/en/exhibition-galicia-a-story-in-the-world/ https://blog.caminodesantiago.gal/en/exhibition-galicia-a-story-in-the-world/#respond Fri, 15 Nov 2019 08:54:59 +0000 http://blog.caminodesantiago.gal/?p=10763 Read more]]> Galicia, un relato no mundo [Galicia: a story in the world] explores the interaction between the historical land of Galicia and the rest of the world, in a tale that takes us from the Prehistoric Age to the present. It has been conceived as the first of three major exhibitions organised by the Regional Government of Galicia to celebrate the Jacobean Year of 2021, focusing on Galicia’s international relations and its presence in the world.

For the first time ever, outstanding pieces of high symbolic value for the history and culture of our country will be arriving in Galicia for the exhibition. They are currently in prestigious museum collections around the world, such as the Parker Library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, the Vatican Apostolic Library, the Library of Arezzo in Italy, and the National Museum of Archaeology in Portugal.

These first-time opportunities include the Lebor Gabála Érenn (Book of Invasions), part of the Book of Leinster, which tells the story of the invasions of Ireland by different peoples, and includes the first known mention of the legendary character Breogán. It will be the first time that this essential work of mediaeval Irish literature has left its country. Also making its first trip to Galicia will be the Sawley Map, considered one of the first European encyclopaedic maps of the world, dating from the period of the Portico of Glory (12th century). It represents the Cathedral of Santiago as the most important building in Europe, among many others of enormous relevance.

Dates: from November 15, 2019 to April 12, 2020

Venue: Museo Centro Gaiás. Cidade da Cultura. Santiago de Compostela

Organizer: Xunta de Galicia and Fundación Cidade da Cultura | Programación del Xacobeo 2021

Colaborator: Consello da Cultura Galega | Secretaría Xeral da Emigración

Sponsor: Estrella Galicia | Gadisa.

]]> https://blog.caminodesantiago.gal/en/exhibition-galicia-a-story-in-the-world/feed/ 0 Exhibition: FROM SEA TO SEA The Camino de Santiago in 3D. Via de la Plata 🗓 🗺 https://blog.caminodesantiago.gal/en/exhibition-from-sea-to-sea-the-camino-de-santiago-in-3d-via-de-la-plata/ https://blog.caminodesantiago.gal/en/exhibition-from-sea-to-sea-the-camino-de-santiago-in-3d-via-de-la-plata/#respond Wed, 06 Nov 2019 09:29:40 +0000 http://blog.caminodesantiago.gal/?p=10765 Read more]]> From Sea to Sea. The Camino de Santiago in 3D. Via de la Plata is an exhibition of three dimensional photographs, with spectacular large format pieces, created using stereophotography, showing images of heritage, landscapes and the pilgrims who walk this pilgrimage route.

The title of the exhibition refers to a phrase included in book IV of the Calixtine Code which tells of the Apostle James appearing to Emperor Charlemagne where he asks his army to fight the Pagans, free the way and visit his basilica and sarcophagus, prophesying “…and after you all peoples will pilgrimage there, from sea to sea…”.

Space: Marcos Valcárcel Cultural Centre

Address: Rúa Progreso, 30. Ourense

Dates: 7th November to 8th December 2019

Exhibition hours: Monday to Friday from 11:00 to 14:00 and from 17:00 to 21:00. Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays from 11:00 to 14:00

Organised by: Xacobeo 2021. Xunta (Regional Government) of Galicia

Collaboration with: County Council of Ourense-Marcos Valcárcel Cultural Centre.

]]> https://blog.caminodesantiago.gal/en/exhibition-from-sea-to-sea-the-camino-de-santiago-in-3d-via-de-la-plata/feed/ 0 Exhibition: VÍA IACOBITANA. The Ways of Santiago in Galicia 🗓 https://blog.caminodesantiago.gal/en/exhibition-via-iacobitana-the-ways-of-santiago-in-galicia-2/ https://blog.caminodesantiago.gal/en/exhibition-via-iacobitana-the-ways-of-santiago-in-galicia-2/#respond Thu, 17 Oct 2019 06:54:14 +0000 http://blog.caminodesantiago.gal/?p=10683 Read more]]> The Via Iacobitana Exhibition is a new expression of contemporary creativity linked to the Jacobean culture. Several Galician photographers became temporary pilgrims and travelled the Ways of Santiago, and with their particular way of seeing things, display the personal sensations which the route chosen suggested to them. The vision of the surrounding countryside, always changing depending on season, variable depending on the atmospheric conditions and the light, added to the experience of the pilgrimage itself and the cultural legacy it has stored up, with a presence in each of the ways, their rich historical heritage and the pilgrims who each year travel the Way of Saint James which leads us to Compostela.

In their images each one of these artists brings together a world which passes and also remains, living ways, filled with evocations and proposals. Pilgrimage routes to Santiago within the reach of all who become pilgrims and who wish to feel in their flesh a thousand year experience which binds them to a unique, sacred geography, to a universal, open itinerary, cradle of western culture and the refined expression of a civilisation advancing.

Once again, the images proposed by Via Iacobitana display the multiform essence of the Camino de Santiago, the generous and open meaning of the Jacobean pilgrimage, its inexhaustible and magnetic power of seduction. The artistic sensitivity and professionalism of the photographers who participate in the exhibition, captivated by the power and the values of a unique experience, forge a new iconographic legacy which transcends the ephemeral instant in which each photograph is made, in order to form part of a durable group, or Jacobean legacy, a treasure in a permanent state of recreation and renovation.

Venue: Exhibition Hall of El Episcopio. Ávila

Dates: From October 18 to 30, 2019

Organised by: Asociación de Amigos del Camino de Santiago de Ávila

Collaboration of: Consellería de Cultura e Turismo. Xunta de Galicia

]]> https://blog.caminodesantiago.gal/en/exhibition-via-iacobitana-the-ways-of-santiago-in-galicia-2/feed/ 0 Exhibition: FROM SEA TO SEA. The Way of St James in 3D https://blog.caminodesantiago.gal/en/exhibition-from-sea-to-sea-the-way-of-st-james-in-3d/ https://blog.caminodesantiago.gal/en/exhibition-from-sea-to-sea-the-way-of-st-james-in-3d/#respond Thu, 25 Jul 2019 07:17:37 +0000 http://blog.caminodesantiago.gal/?p=10369 Read more]]> The 3D exhibition From Sea to Sea. The Way of St James in 3D is a 3-dimensional photography show featuring spectacular large pieces produced using a stereographic technique. The exhibition presents images of the pilgrimage routes, heritage sites, landscapes and pilgrims on the English Route, Fisterra–Muxía Route, Portuguese Route and Portuguese Coastal Route.

The title of the show is a reference to the sea of the Atlantic routes which open the exhibition, the sea of the Portuguese and Galician coasts that is so strongly linked to the Portuguese pilgrimage routes to Santiago. And it ends with the open ocean along the Costa da Morte, the physical and symbolic finishing point of the route to Fisterra and Muxía, after reaching Compostela.

Location: Sala Gótica dos Paços do Concelho
Address: Largo do Municipio. Barcelos (Portugal)

Dates: from July 25 to August 20, 2019
Schedule: Monday to Friday from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 a.m. and from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Saturday and Sunday: from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Organized by: Xacobeo 2021. Xunta de Galicia
In partnership with: Associação ACB. Albergue Cidade de Barcelos and Câmara Municipal de Barcelos

]]> https://blog.caminodesantiago.gal/en/exhibition-from-sea-to-sea-the-way-of-st-james-in-3d/feed/ 0 Exhibition “The Way to Santiago. A Contemporary Experience of Pilmigrage” https://blog.caminodesantiago.gal/en/exhibition-the-way-to-santiago-a-contemporary-experience-of-pilmigrage/ https://blog.caminodesantiago.gal/en/exhibition-the-way-to-santiago-a-contemporary-experience-of-pilmigrage/#respond Wed, 26 Jun 2019 11:06:03 +0000 http://blog.caminodesantiago.gal/?p=10253 Read more]]> For today’s pilgrim, the experience of the Way of Saint James is unique and incomparable. It evokes the medieval pilgrimage to Compostela in intimate contact with nature and a timeless past. The traveler retraces a spiritual itinerary marked by the footfalls of centuries of sojourners. This emotional charge, the legacy of a rich culture and still living traditions – hospitality being the most durable of its hallmarks – is reinforced by the steadfast endurance of places now celebrated as World Heritage Sites. The Camino’s hamlets and cities embrace historic cathedrals, monasteries, churches and sheltering pilgrims’ hospitals. Natural and manmade landscapes both bear witness to their intimate relationship to pilgrims of centuries long past and with the indelible routes that lead to Compostela, trails that define some of the most significant cultural itineraries of our times.

Savoring today’s pilgrimage to the tomb of St. James allows travelers to encounter themselves, but also to know other pilgrims, casual companions met along the Way and local residents, and to view the spectacular panorama of a universal and freely available Camino always reverenced as sacred space. At the end of this physical and spiritual adventure, arrival at the eternal city of Santiago de Compostela and its cathedral finds its fulfillment in an intimate pause in the silent tomb crypt of the Apostle and with a hug bestowed on his stature which presides over the high altar. A legendary complement to the Way of Saint James with its own allure is the trail that extends from Santiago to the continental Land’s End, Finisterrae or Cape Fisterra, a trail that intimates another aspiration of medieval travelers. After completing the Camino proper at the stately shrine of St. James, a final confrontation with the boundless sea offers deep emotional significance.

Venue: Cervantes Institute
Adresse: 211-215 East 49th Street, New York, NY 10017
Date: from June 25 to July 21, 2019
Organize: Consellería de Cultura e Turismo, Xunta de Galicia
Collaborate: Correos

]]> https://blog.caminodesantiago.gal/en/exhibition-the-way-to-santiago-a-contemporary-experience-of-pilmigrage/feed/ 0 The Codex Calixtinus and the Cancionero da Vaticana will be exhibited for the first time together in Galicia thanks to an agreement between the Xunta and the Vatican https://blog.caminodesantiago.gal/en/the-codex-calixtinus-and-the-cancionero-da-vaticana-will-be-exhibited-for-the-first-time-together-in-galicia-thanks-to-an-agreement-between-the-xunta-and-the-vatican/ https://blog.caminodesantiago.gal/en/the-codex-calixtinus-and-the-cancionero-da-vaticana-will-be-exhibited-for-the-first-time-together-in-galicia-thanks-to-an-agreement-between-the-xunta-and-the-vatican/#respond Tue, 18 Jun 2019 07:10:33 +0000 http://blog.caminodesantiago.gal/?p=10221 Read more]]> The conselleiro for Culture and Tourism, Román Rodríguez, signed an agreement today in Rome with the Vatican Apostolic Library which would allow, for the very first time together in Galicia, the exhibition of two pieces of high symbolic value for Galician culture: the Liber Sancti Iacobi, one of the three illuminated Calixtine codices which, in addition to the original one in Santiago, are still preserved today; and the Cancionero da Vaticana, an essential piece of the Galician-Portuguese lyric tradition, that will be the first time you can visit in our community.

The works will be part of Galicia, un relato no mundo, the first major international exhibition of the Xacobeo 21 programme, which will open next November at the Museo Centro Gaiás de la Cidade da Cultura de Galicia.

The Vatican’s Liber Sancti Iacobi is, along with Santiago’s original, one of only three illuminated Calixtine codices; it allows us to see graphic details lost in the original Compostelan document, such as the face of Emperor Charlemagne himself.

In the Middle Ages, several reproductions of the Codex Calixtinus were made in Compostela with the aim of spreading the cult and pilgrimage to Santiago throughout Europe, helping it reach the important intellectual centres of worship of the time. The Liber Sancti Iacobi itself was written with the desire to connect Compostela and Galicia with the rest of Europe, it created the legend of Santiago’s appearance to the Emperor Charlemagne, the most prestigious figure in medieval Europe, and his arrival in Compostela.

The Cancionero da Vaticana is, together with the Cancionero de Ajuda (Ajuda Songbook) and the Cancionero de la Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal (Songbook of the National Library of Portugal), one of the corpora in which the medieval Galician Portuguese lyric is kept. It is a work with an exceptional symbolic value for Galicia, but also central to Europe’s literary tradition, since the Portuguese Galician lyric, together with poetry in Occitan (south of France) and Oïl (north of France), were the continent’s first literary expressions in the Romance language.

This is a monumental collection of 1,200 cantigas which were copied in Italy at the end of the 15th and beginning of the 16th centuries by order of the Italian humanist Angelo Colocci; unfortunately, the original documents were lost. It contains pieces by the most emblematic names of medieval Galician literary tradition: the kings Alfonso X El Sabio and Don Dinís, Paio Gomes Chariño, Afonso Eanes do Cotón, Pero da Ponte, Meendinho or Airas Nunes, among many others.

]]> https://blog.caminodesantiago.gal/en/the-codex-calixtinus-and-the-cancionero-da-vaticana-will-be-exhibited-for-the-first-time-together-in-galicia-thanks-to-an-agreement-between-the-xunta-and-the-vatican/feed/ 0 Exhibition “Xacobeo: Cando todos os camiños conducen a Galicia” (Palas de Rei) 🗓 https://blog.caminodesantiago.gal/en/exhibition-xacobeo-cando-todos-os-caminos-conducen-a-galicia-palas-de-rei/ https://blog.caminodesantiago.gal/en/exhibition-xacobeo-cando-todos-os-caminos-conducen-a-galicia-palas-de-rei/#respond Thu, 14 Feb 2019 11:36:21 +0000 http://blog.caminodesantiago.gal/?p=9855 Read more]]> The itinerant exhibition When all the roads lead to Galicia commemorates the 25th anniversary of the inclusion of the French Way in the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List. Organised by the Department of Culture and Tourism, it will be exhibited in the city of Lugo after passing through the city of Lucena in Portomarín. It is a photographic exhibition which makes a retrospective of this very milestone which, in the context of the Xacobeo 93, meant a turning point in the pilgrimage to Compostela.

The exhibition was first enjoyed last December at the Galician Centre of Contemporary Art (CGAC) in Santiago de Compostela, coinciding with this anniversary’s commemorative event.

Place: Exhibition Hall of the Centro Comarcal

Adresse: Avda. de Compostela, 55. Palas de Rei (Lugo)

Date: from February 15 to March 1, 2019

Organised by: Consellería de Cultura e Turismo, Xunta of Galicia

Collaboration of: Town Hall of Palas de Rei

 

]]> https://blog.caminodesantiago.gal/en/exhibition-xacobeo-cando-todos-os-caminos-conducen-a-galicia-palas-de-rei/feed/ 0 Exhibition: Xacobeo. Cando todos os camiños conducen a Galicia (Sarria) 🗓 https://blog.caminodesantiago.gal/en/exhibition-xacobeo-cando-todos-os-caminos-conducen-a-galicia-sarria/ https://blog.caminodesantiago.gal/en/exhibition-xacobeo-cando-todos-os-caminos-conducen-a-galicia-sarria/#respond Thu, 31 Jan 2019 08:57:03 +0000 http://blog.caminodesantiago.gal/?p=9753 Read more]]> The itinerant exhibition When all the roads lead to Galicia commemorates the 25th anniversary of the inclusion of the French Way in the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List. Organised by the Department of Culture and Tourism, it will be exhibited in Sarria after passing through the Portomarín and Lugo. It is a photographic exhibition which makes a retrospective of this very milestone which, in the context of the Xacobeo 93, meant a turning point in the pilgrimage to Compostela.

The exhibition was first enjoyed last December at the Galician Centre of Contemporary Art (CGAC) in Santiago de Compostela, coinciding with this anniversary’s commemorative event.

Place: Exhibition Hall of the Antigo Cárcere Comarcal

Adresse: rúa da Madalena, 8. Sarria (Lugo)

Date: from February 1 to February 14, 2019

Organised by: Consellería de Cultura e Turismo, Xunta of Galicia

Colaboration with: Town Hall of Sarria

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