Detail InformationEdit The monastery was built during the medieval period, between the 12th and 13th centuries; the abbatial temple, chapter house and what remains of the dormitory and refectory date back to this period.During the modern age, coinciding with 16th and 17th centuries, the cloister was built and the upper cloister, abbatial palace, Covent, lodgings, […]
A town situated in “the wildest territory in the Pyrenees”, according to Ernest Hemingway; a fascinatingly beautiful place on the Way of Saint James. The town appeared on the Way of Saint James to tend to the pilgrims that came from Europe through the Pyrenees. On their way they left thousands of stories that add […]
Detail InformationEdit Near the town of Estella, the Benedictine monastery, of Mozarab origin, prosperous in the 11th century, after García de Nájera converted it into a Pilgrim’s hospital given its proximity to the Road to Santiago de Compostela. In the 12th century the church with a Romanesque sanctuary and Cistercian body was built and thereafter […]
Detail InformationEdit The Monastery of El Escorial was the first example of the architectural style which came to be known as Herrerian after its creator, Juan de Herrera. It holds the designation of World Heritage site. Philip II used this Royal Site for his family pantheon. Construction work began in 1563 under Juan de Toledo, […]
Detail InformationEdit With a surface area of 20,000 square meters, the monastery of San Martín Pinario is the second largest religious monument in Santiago after the Cathedral. The main façade, in the Baroque style like most of the rest of the work, is 100 m long. The old church was founded in the 12th century […]
Detail InformationEdit This celebrated Cordoban Jewish doctor and philosopher, whose REAL name was Moshes (Moses) Ben Maimon, was born in Cordoba in the year 1135. The Almohad period was characterised by intense political and religious conservatism and Maimonides and his family were forced to seek exile first in Fez in 1158, then in Palestine and […]
Almondsbury is a large village near junction 16 of the M5 motorway, in South Gloucestershire, England. The Village is split by a steep hill, part of the escarpment overlooking the Severn floodplain. At the bottom of the hill is Lower Almondsbury where a pub and hotel, The Bowl Inn, is situated. South Wales, the Forest […]
Detail InformationEdit The Way of Saint James goes through this town in the Pyrenees, situated in a steep and narrow valley, surrounded by woods, with irrigation channels cutting through. The name of the municipality reminds us of the epic and legendary past of these lands, because it refers to Charlemargne. He would have been playing […]
Blair Drummond is a small rural community near Stirling in Scotland, predominantly located along the A84 road. Blair Drummond has a local authority primary school (known as Kincardine in Mentieth Primary School), a church (Church of Scotland denomination), and a community hall which was rebuilt in 2005 Blair Drummond is also the location of Scotlands […]
Detail InformationEdit The Virgin of Montserrat. The veneration of this Virgin spread all over South America when the monk Bernat Boil accompanied Christopher Columbus to the New World. It is said that an image of the Virgin of Montserrat appeared in a cave in the mountain. Situated 20 kilometres northwest of Barcelona, the monastery was […]