Santiago de Compostela

Santiago de Compostela has many mysteries that have not been discovered and things that we don't know for a fact. One of the mystery is whether or not saint James the greatest traveled from Jerusalem to Iberian, Peninsula. Even though we don't know some things we still have a bit of information of it and how it has in the past. The town is located northwest of Spain were one of the most well know cathedrals. Santiago de Compostela is the capital of Galicia. The town is named after the Apostle Saint James or Santiago. It was founded around 400, it was around the time of the Roman Empire's falling. Santiago de Compostela was taken control by many people. Some of the people who took controls were King Visingothic, the Arabs in between the years 711-739, and King Visigothic who regained control of Santiago de Compastela. The City of Santiago de Compostela has amazing statues and designs inside there cathedral. The cathedral is the most popular and most visited cathedral in all of Europe. It has many legends and mysteries that have been left to us. There is a Shrine of Saint james the greatest. millions of Tourists who visited the shrine come with great love and…

At one point in history most parts of Spain were controlled by Muslims, so when pilgrims decide to take on the journey to Santiago they consider it as the” Holy Land”. Santiago de Compostela cathedral began its construction in 1075 but wasn’t officially consecrated until 1211. Today one of the most visited points of all western Europe is Santiago, Spain for many reasons. From St. James the Greater, to the richness of the architecture of the cathedral, to the significance of the journey…

In the seventh century, a Carolingian church had been constructed and stood for many years. Prior to that, it was considered a holy land by people living in the surrounding forests.3 Around the same time that the Benedictine monks had founded the abbey, the relics of Saint James had been discovered in Spain. This discovery sparked a movement and many pilgrims began to make their way to the shrine at Santiago de Compostela in hopes of seeking forgiveness for their sins or cures for their…

Religion and pilgrimage to holy sites was developed into an integral part of the society during the 12th century. The Christian believed in the resurrection of Christ and the afterlife that depended on the actions of an individual over the course of their lifetime. In order to gain salvation Christians at the time made pilgrimages to holy sites in order to please their God and attain salvation from hell and find a place in the abode of God; the heavens. As the favored place of pilgrimage was…

plus mile Road of Santiago de Compostela in Spain. From drugs to activist to lyricalist, Paulo Coelho found purpose in his life by writing and it is demonstrated in many of his books such as “The Pilgrimage”, “The Alchemist” and this novel, “The Fifth Mountain”. The common theme and message was appreciating life and doing what you want. In “The Fifth Mountain”, the novel contains many ideas of faith, religion, and self belief which are some of the skills we need to possess in life. “Stop…

Resting on the edge of the Niger River in the usual searing heat of Timbuktu, Fatima, daughter of a village trader Oumar and his wife Awa, quietly ponders about her father and his current pilgrimage to Mecca alongside Musa Keita I and 72,000 other men. Oumar was individually selected by the Mansa himself for this journey, and as important as the pilgrimage is, Fatima cannot help but to feel perturbed by her father’s absence. Awa and Fatima have uniformly quarreled with each other for the past…

lack of attraction in one’s own nation – seen on the beaches and nightlife environments where most tourists seek jineteros, female escorts. Additionally, the excitement and anonymity of such encounters makes sexual activity while travelling very appealing. 2) Existential tourism: Roland is highly motivated by the authenticity and general curiosity. She seeks an alternative by embracing the nation. This is illustrated in discussion of Mantanza, the capital city, and through her studies of the…

Saint Isidore of Seville is the patron saint of the internet. With his feast day being April 4th. Saint Isidore was born into a family of saints in the sixth century of Spain. 3 siblings of his, being Leander, Fulgentius, and Florentina, are seen as saints in Spain. Saint Isidore’s family was also not only a family full of saints but also a family of leaders, with both Fulgentius and Leander both being bishops and Florentina an abbess. Because of this, this didn’t make life a lot easier to…

on active lives beyond the expected familial role of wife/mother, the Campaña de Alfabetización marked a definitive change in the way the young literacy brigadista would begin to view her world.” This quote talks about the women who made up more than 50% of the 250,000 maestros voluntaries in Cuba’s National Literacy Campaign. They were allowed to roam the rural areas of Cuba by themselves while educating the people of Cuba. Of the three different brigades, the Patria o Muerte workers’ brigade…

In Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Gabriel Garcia Marquez sets the story of a murder in a small town in Bolivia. The novel takes place in the 1950s, with parallels of political characters such as Santiago to the Cuban regime under Batista and the Vicario bothers to Fidel Castro, Marquez creates an allegory for the rise and fall of left wing Latino governments. Left wing governments, in this context, aim to create equality through regulations while right wing governments govern with the ideology…