24 Sights in Santiago de Compostela, Spain (with Map and Images)

The Botafumeiro is a famous thurible used at the Santiago de Compostela Cathedral, in Spain. Its name comes from the Galician language, where botar means "to eject, to throw away, to expel", and the Latin fume, meaning "smoke".

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Santiago de Compostela is the only place in the parish of Santiago de Compostela, in the municipality of Santiago de Compostela in A Coruña, in the region of Santiago. Second or IGE, in 2023 it has 82,591 inhabitants. É a capital do concello.

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The Museum of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela is an institution that collects and exhibits various artistic and archaeological works, owned by Compostela, ranging from Roman times to the present day. It was created with the objective of conserving and exhibiting or public liturgical objects in disuse, doazóns de peregrinos nobres and the different archaeological remains that were being discovered in different interventions in the cathedral and its surroundings. Among the collections are archaeological exhibitions, painting, sculpture, painting, tapestries, carpets, liturgical clothing, ceramics and furniture.

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San Francisco de Val de Deus is a Franciscan convent founded at the beginning of the thirteenth century in Santiago de Compostela, declared a historic-artistic monument. It is located in the old town of the city, not a close place like the Val de Deus.

Wikipedia: Convento de San Francisco do Val de Deus (GL)

The Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, CGAC is an arts centre based in Santiago de Compostela that aims to promote culture in Galicia through exhibition, enjoyment and knowledge of the trends and currents of contemporary artistic creation.

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The Museum of Pilgrimages and Santiago is a museum in Santiago de Compostela focused on the universal phenomenon of pilgrimage and not the birth and development of the city of Santiago or around the cathedral and the pilgrimage to the tomb of Santiago or Maior.

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The Pantheon of Illustrious Galicians atópase na igrexa do convento de San Domingos de Bonaval, in Santiago de Compostela. All the church is Pantheon, and they are only being used in the Capela da Visitación and the Capela do Santo Cristo. They do not repouse the remains of Galician leftovers such as the poet Rosalía de Castro, or the rexionalist politician Alfredo Brañas, or the sculptor Francisco Asorey, or the poet Ramón Cabanillas, or the xeographer Domingo Fontán and the artist and nationalist politician Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao.

Wikipedia: Panteón de Galegos Ilustres (GL)

The façade of the Acibecharía is the north façade of the cathedral of Santiago and was built by Lucas Ferro Caaveiro, replacing the previous Romanesque one, called the Paradise, which was built by Mestre Bernardo in 1122. It is the access to the pilgrims' cathedral that follows the French, Primitive and English paths through the Porta Francíxena.

Wikipedia: Fachada da Acibecharía (GL)

The façade of the Obradoiro is the main façade, facing west, of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, the result of successive modifications on the original construction from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and finished off by Fernando de Casas Novoa between 1738 and 1750.

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The church of San Fiz de Solovio is a religious temple located in the center of the city of Santiago de Compostela. Ten a sona de se-la igrexa más antiga da cidade, aínda que fuei demoliqueda, rebuilt and subjected to different reforms and extensions later or long of oito secules. It is dedicated to San Fiz.

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A igrexa das Angustias de Abaixo, igrexa da Real Angustia ou igrexa de San Froitoso, is a temple of Churrigueresque style located in Santiago de Compostela, a rentes da praza do Obradoiro, which was commissioned by Lucas Ferro Caaveiro in the eighteenth century.

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The Fountain of the Pratarías, more coñecida with the Fountain of the Cabals, is a monumental fountain of Baroque style in Compostela, designed by J. Pernas from the year 1825 that is located in the center of the Plaza de las Pratarías, in the city of Santiago de Compostela.

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The Monument to San Francisco is a work made between 1926 and 1930 by the Galician sculptor Francisco Asorey and located in the old area of Santiago de Compostela, not a place known as the Val de Deus, diante da igrexa do Convento de San Francisco do Val de Deus.

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The Church of Santa María a Real do Sar is a church located in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. It was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1895.The church lies on the banks of the Sar river, which flows past Santiago.

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The church of Santa María Salomé is a Catholic temple originally built in the twelfth century located in Santiago de Compostela, Galicia. Consider the only church dedicated to Saint Salome, the apostle of St. James.

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Dolmen Novo Milenio is a sculpture by Silverio Rivas in 2000 located in the Parque da Música in Santiago de Compostela, in front of the Auditorio de Galicia. The inaugural work in the framework of the celebrations of the European Capital of Culture in the year 2000.

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The Igrexa da Compañía de Xesús, more known as Igrexa da Compañía or Igrexa da Universidade, located in the Praza da Universidade, bordering the Praza de Mazarelos or the Institute, was built in the seventeenth century, finishing off its construction in 1767, and belonged to the Colexio da Compañía de Xesús to which, after the expulsion of two xesuites, It became a cappella da Universidade in 1769.

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The Church or Chapel of Santa Susana Church is a Catholic temple originally built in the Romanesque style in the twelfth century in Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain. It is located in Parque da Alameda, the most emblematic park in the city, more precisely in the Carballeira (oak grove) of Santa Susana, at the top of Paseo da Ferradura.

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The Ramón María Aller Astronomical Observatory is a scientific research and teaching centre belonging to the University of Santiago de Compostela, located on the Life Campus of the capital of Galicia, and directed by José Ángel Docobo. The enclosure was built in 1943 with the co-sponsorship of the CSIC, the Galician astronomer Ramón María Aller Ulloa, who worked at the USC and decided to move from his native Lalín to Santiago de Compostela the aparellos of the Lalín Astronomical Observatory, which he himself built 31 years earlier in the locality, to continue with his study of two stars.

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The Museum of Natural History of the University of Santiago de Compostela, better known as the Luís Iglesias Museum of Natural History, is a center with strong educational and social potential, in addition to its research and formal education tasks, focuses on its future in scientific dissemination, giving answer to the fact that this University has citizenship. The new installations that have been available since 2014 and the total renovation, become a modern museum, which shows the natural sciences in a comprehensive and rigorous way in a context such as the present, of growing social interest and environment.

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The Church of Santa Maria del Camino is an eighteenth-century neoclassical church, originally built in the thirteenth century, if not earlier, situated in the historic center of Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain.

Wikipedia: Igreja de Santa Maria do Caminho (Santiago de Compostela) (PT)

The Church or Chapel of Our Lady of the Pillar (Galician: Igrexa del Pilar; Spanish: Iglesia de Nuestra Señora del Pilar is a Roman Catholic temple built in 1717 in Baroque style in Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain. It is located in Alameda Park, the most emblematic park in the city, next to Paseo de la Ferradura and close to the Church of Santa Susana.

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The Palace of Ramirás or Palace of the Counts of Ramiranes, also known as the College of the Irish, is a pazo ("house-palace") located on Rua Nova, in the historic center of Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain.

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The Gothic House, also called the House of King Dom Pedro, is a fourteenth-century palace located in the historic center of Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain, in front of the Church of San Martinho Pinaririo. It currently houses the Museum of Pilgrimages. It is one of the rare examples of fourteenth-century civil architecture in the city, although only Gothic remains persist on the ground floor, in the form of the ogival door and a decorated window, also ogival

Wikipedia: Casa Gótica (Santiago de Compostela) (PT)