Santiago de Compostela Cathedral (Catedral de Santiago de Compostela)

... the fact that you can climb it. So we did. We had lunch here and then drove down the coast to Santiago de Compostela. Home of a cathedral which has the bones of S.T.James inside. Lovely twin tower built in the 13th century. Pilgrims have been coming here ...

... and drink for hours. It's a very relaxed atmoshere. The town is amazing though. They have 2 zonas, nueva y vieja (old and new). The cathedral is in the old zone. It's absolutely breath taking. The architecture is so detailed and it's so huge!! Well ...

... arrived in at the Cathedral in Santiago about 11:00 -  first thought was how very old the cathedral is.  Santiago is a UNESCO World Heritage site and is said to be one of the most beautiful cities in Europe.  Narrow, cobbled streets wind ...

... see many examples of the 'beds' used for this farming. After about an hour and a half we reached Santiago de Compostela and walked through the charming streets to the Cathedral.  The streets in the old town are all made of large rectangular ...

... nbsp; This is where much of the holy art is housed, including "the recently restored choir hall from the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela that is, without doubt, the most valuable jewel of the Renaissance sculpture in Galicia" (says The Lonely Planet ...

We left the Casa Rural in the morning right after breakfast, headed for the city of Santiago de Compostela, about an hour and a half inland. Santiago is the third most important Catholic pilgrimage site, after Rome and Jerusalem, because it is supposed to ...

... Titanic...) Today Dev and I left Portugal and arrived in Spain. We are in a town in the North-west called Santiago de Compostela...it's very cute there...we walked through an amazing park this afternoon and we visited the Cathedral, which has the most ...

... .  Besides, it wasn´t entirely a fraud, we may not have a limp but we´d travelled to Santiago on ´a broadly Christian mission´, well, to see the cathedral; we´d probably travelled further than the other pilgrims; and more to the point we had very little ...

... at Monte de Gozo from where one could (in medieval times), on a clear day, see the spires of Santiago Cathedral. We didn´t actually see any spires yesterday and I was way too tired to go yomping around looking for any cathedral spires - decided I would get ...

... (couldn't eat it), breaded hake (came with french fries - it seems this is the only way they know how to cook potatoes in Spain!) and ice cream cake for dessert (the best part).  Jim and I stayed behind to sort out the bill while Nancy, Sandi, Lynne ...

... one of my Brazilian friends, I felt so useful!) So while I was in class the next day, Cris checked out the sweet cathedral and actually went to mass! What a good little catholic boy! So instead of making this the longest travel log ever... I'm sure ...

We went to Santiago de Compostela today.  This is the 3rd most visited Catholic site in the world (the others being Jerusalem and Rome).   ...

Thursday morning found me on a plane on my way to Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, a region of Spain above Portugal, with my Italian room mate, Francesco, and my travel buddy, Alejandro of Mexico. Obviously the plane was late - it's Spain - but ...

... WiFi +caffeine= Internet surfing and travel-blog-writing. Yesterday Ryan and I made the long drive from Bilbao, SP to Santiago De Compostela. It was pretty uneventful -- lots of books on tape and a shuffle of bad rap music and songs from the 1980s. ...

... (Vera Lynn) - maybe in Norway some day?   Siste etappe - kun 12 km (last stage)...easy and quiet...came to the cathedral 1130 and went to mess. Very happy all of us - we did it - and with no great problems. Skal prøve å summere litt opp og legge ...

... a bit helped loosen things up, and two cafe con leches later, we finally began our descent into Santiago de Compostela. We planned on heading straight for the cathedral, but ran into an alberge in the new section of town that had beds available, so we ...

The next stop on my revised journey was to Santiago de Compostela, the capital of Galicia, in the middle of b.f. nowhere, at least as best as I could tell by the long routes I had to use to get in and out. Apparently, it is also Spain's holiest city, ...

... were fairly pretty.  After all the natural beauty of the Camino itself, coming into the big city of Santiago de Compostela was a little disapointing.  The camino purposefully goes through many small hamlets (i.e. populations under 50) so there ...

The other two tours in Madeira and Lanzzarrotte we planned well in advance, but the trip to Santiago de Compostela was a last minute decision based on the recommendation of the two couples who we had the pleasure of dining with on the cruise. I'm glad we ...

Went to Santiago de Compostela in Spain.  I find it a bit disconcerting that I attended Catholic school for nine years and had never heard of the place before.  Apparently, every 25 years if you make a pilgrimage to Rome or Jerusalem, all your ...