{"id":127,"date":"2021-06-14T12:09:52","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T12:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/igfae.usc.es\/100xciencia.5\/?page_id=127"},"modified":"2021-07-06T12:29:20","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T12:29:20","slug":"santiago-de-compostela","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/igfae.usc.es\/100xciencia.5\/index.php\/santiago-de-compostela\/","title":{"rendered":"Santiago de Compostela"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Santiago de Compostela is the capital of the Autonomous Community of Galicia; declared a World Heritage City by UNESCO<\/strong> thanks to its monumental beauty, extraordinary conservation and as the final destination of a thousand-year-old pilgrim route: the Way of St. James, which, since the 9th century, has transformed this finis terrae into a meeting place of Western faith and thinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Santiago de Compostela is a stone apparition in the midst of the green forests of Northwest Spain and the nearby Galician \u201crias\u201d. It was originally a stopping point on a Roman road, but the discovery of the Apostle James\u2019 tomb at the beginning of the 9th century gave rise to a place of workshop in the corner of the Iberian Peninsula, which was then dominated by the Moors. From then on all of Europe started walking towards Santiago, a holy city of Christendom where the grace of plenary absolution awaited them. A Romanesque cathedral then arose there, with the following centuries adding the sobriety of the Renaissance style and the majesty of a Baroque style that eventually characterised the city\u2019s monumental image, made from the granite of its monasteries, its pilgrim hospitals, its numerous churches, its stately houses and its squares, where time stands still.<\/p>\n\n\n\n