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Complex Context 2012 : The Path of the Pilgrim Allariz - Santiago de Capostella

ATLAS + SKETCH BOOK

DARK TRIAD 2012

http://thedarktriad.blogspot.no/

Pia GrungOlivier Bouvais

Dan Dorocic

1 The region of Galicia

-2 Via De La plata

-3 Our trips

-4 Types of city we meet on the way,

Index:

overview map:

Galicia :

Located at the northwest corner of Spain. It is surrounded by the Principality of Asturias, Castile and León, Portugal, the Atlantic Ocean and the Cantabrian Sea. Galicia is divided into four provinces: La Coruña, Lugo, Ourense and Pontevedra. Saint-Jacques de Compostela (Santiago de Compostela) is the capital of the autonomous community. The two official languages are Spanish and Galician.It had 2,760,179 inhabitants in 2005.

Galicia covers an area of 29,574 km ² and has 1300 km of coastline. In Roman times Galicia had significant mineral resources: gold, silver and tin.Galicia is a geographical area bounded on the north and west by the Atlantic Ocean, to the east by the end of the mountains of the Cantabrian coast (An-cares), and south-west by the river Minho, which marks the end of the course the border with Portugal. It is a green area, oceanic climate, windswept, recal-ling the northwest of Europe.

This is the dislocation of his former base at the formation of the Pyrenean-Cantabrian chain tertiary gave his appearance today. To the east, on the border of Asturias and León, high massive peak at the Peña Trevinca (2124 meters). North and west, plateaus lies roughly between 200 and 600 meters and south contrast with the valley and gorges Miño Sil. The uprising of granitic and schistose has also led to the formation of coastal landscapes features: rias, Rias Baixas southwest and north Rias Altas, who abers kinds of pink shores, and cliffs such as those Cape Ortegal.

The nation is divided into four Galician provinces, fifty-three comarques, three hundred and sixteen concellos (municipalities), 3847 31 855 parishes and localities, lugares in Galician (half of all Spain who has 63 613) or aldeas (hamlets). The parish is Galician, the absolute reference. It is common, if you ask a Galician where it comes from, that you meet with the name of his parish. [Ref. needed] The origin of these parishes is due to the Suevi, a Germanic people who founded one of the first Christian kingdoms of Europe to 410. A document from the year 569 attests to this administrative organization, Paro-chiale Suevorum.

Plan coastal development, proposed by the Government of Galicia.Excerpt from Part II «Synthesis territorial» Chapter I «Territorial Struc-ture»

The Galician region covers an area multi-structural, consisting of small groups of people associated with small farms also forming parishes. Added to this is a fairly small towns and villages, marked by difficulties and inter-nal communication very margin of the main land markets and national power.Historically, the coastline is the territory where the economic activity, the dynamics of population and urban development are the most important. The paradigm shift from agrarian system which determines the current social structure of Galicia, has accentuated this phenomenon, increasing migration processes, land to the coast, especially to urban centers. Subur-banisation processes (diffusion or device) that characterize the urban Gali-cian, are particularly important in the areas of La Coruña-Ferrol and Rias, Pontevedra, Vigo and Rias and Saint Jacques de Compostela. To this must be added the considerable development of diffuse forms of urbanization on each side of the estuary of Arousa.

Coastal development is therefore of fundamental importance at a time when you want to set the Galician regional model, which will help to ensure balance within the region particularly affected by social change and indus-trial and Atlantic regions, where economic and demographic dynamism is more important. It will also be important, a territorial point of view, to find a way to set guidelines and criteria for urban and metropolitan phenomena, concentrated mostly in the heart of the regional spatial structure. (...)

The role of the coastal landscape (landscape here is meant in the sense of identity element of a region and, by extension, society) in the structuring of Galicia, is to assume productive roles, symbolic and functional not lie in these regions, but which serve the whole of Galicia. And joint action, espe-cially those concerning tourism development and economic, will taking into account the environmental fragility of the sites concerned by these measures. (...)

Via de la plata:

The origins of the Via de plata back to a Roman road over 463 km at the time this road linking the city of Mérida (founded in 25 BC, the capital of the Roman province of Lusitania) to Astorga (founded in 27 BC, in the province of Tarragona).

This is the longest of all the ways in Galicia. It travels through the provinces of Ourense, Pontevedra and A Coruña, cros-sing nature reserves of great beauty, with a wealth of cultural and ecological heritage. Due to its length, this itinerary offers alternatives and a number of accesses into Galicia from Nor-theast Portugal and through the basin of the Sil River, which has been the traditional entry to Galicia since ancient times. The Southeast Way is actually an extension of the Roman road known as the Vía de la Plata, which connected Emerita Augusta (Mérida) with Asturica Augusta (Astorga), and crosses the wes-tern part of the Iberian peninsula from south to north, travelling over the basins of the Tajo and Duero Rivers. The Way was laid out in early Christian times, taking advantage of older roads, in keeping with the practical nature of the Romans.

It is perhaps the Arabs from which derives the current name of our route. Historians dismiss any connection with silvery metal, and consider that «Silver Route» could come from «al-Balat» , Arabic term that refers to the character of the old paved Roman road. However, another interpretation «paleolexicológica», seems more plausible, he derives the current name of the route

of the term «delapidata» , with which, in Late Latin, referred to places paved, and including the road before us.

During the history of many buildings were constructed in different city for the reception of pilgrims. Thus we find this path many chapels, churches and hospitals that reflect each of their eras. As a huge book of architectural heritage that gives way to read the history of Galicia.

Santiago de compostela

Ourense

A Canda

Castro de Dozon:

San Pedro de Vilanova de Dozón, a jewel of the Galician Romanesque style, dating from the 12th century, which belonged to a convent of Benedictine nuns. From the 16th century onwards, it came under the jurisdiction of San Paio de Antealtares.

The Monastery of Oseira :

A Cistercian monastery traditionally known for its hospitality to pilgrims. Worthy of note is its 12th century church, one of the most perfect examples of the Galician Romanesque style, with a floor plan clearly influenced by the cathedral in Santiago. It is laid out in a Latin cross, with three naves, a transept and presbytery surrounded by an ambulatory from which radial chapels stem.

There are a number of altarpieces and mural paintings from the Baroque period and two images sculpted by José Gambino (1722-1775), portraying Saint James the Pilgrim and San Famiano, a German monk who made pil-grimages to Santiago, Jerusalem and Rome. The sacristy and high choir of the church are two magnificent pieces dating from the 16th century. The three cloisters and the façades of the church and the monastery com-prise a scholarly compendium of Renaissance and Baroque architecture.

The Monastery of Oseira :

A Cistercian monastery traditionally known for its hospitality to pilgrims. Worthy of note is its 12th century church, one of the most perfect examples of the Galician Romanesque style, with a floor plan clearly influenced by the cathedral in Santiago. It is laid out in a Latin cross, with three naves, a transept and presbytery surrounded by an ambulatory from which radial chapels stem.

There are a number of altarpieces and mural paintings from the Baroque period and two images sculpted by José Gambino (1722-1775), portraying Saint James the Pilgrim and San Famiano, a German monk who made pil-grimages to Santiago, Jerusalem and Rome. The sacristy and high choir of the church are two magnificent pieces dating from the 16th century. The three cloisters and the façades of the church and the monastery com-prise a scholarly compendium of Renaissance and Baroque architecture.

Santiago de compostela:

After visiting the Cathedral, the place where pilgrims first arrive and meet, they can enjoy a tour of the city of Santiago in all its historic splendour, taking in the diversity and dynamic appearance it offers today.

The modern-day city of Santiago de Compostela evolved from a small sett-lement of monks who were the custodians of the tomb of the Apostle at the time of its discovery, around the year 820. The city underwent spectacular development during the Middle Ages, thanks to the popularity of pilgri-mages in Europe, which made it, along with Jerusalem and Rome, one of the three great centres of the Christian world.

Between the 15th and the 19th centuries, the city alternated between pros-perity and decadence, in keeping with the fluctuating pulse of the history of Galicia, Spain and Europe. Pilgrimages became less and less important, but Santiago consolidated its position as a centre of culture, learning and spiri-tuality thanks to the founding of the University and the city’s Renaissance and Baroque heritage, mirrored in most of its major historical monuments and buildings.

Santiago has enjoyed steady growth since the mid 20th century. In addition to the gradual rebirth of the pilgrimages, which keep its traditional spiritual significance alive, the Pilgrims’ Way to Santiago has become a growing tourist and cultural attraction.

In recent years, Santiago, the administrative capital of the autonomous region of Galicia, has seen the construction of a number of important cultural and tourist infrastructures and it has succeeded in projecting an international image as a European oriented historic and cultural centre. Proof of this are the thousands of visitors that flock to the city every day throughout the year.

Declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, Santiago is anxious to main-tain its thousand year old tradition of harmony, spirituality and progress through the historic tradition of its Pilgrims’ Way.

Faculty of History and Geography

Cathedral-Holy Door- Xelmírez Palace

Monastère de Saint Martiño Pinario

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Complex Context 2012 : The Path of the Pilgrim Allariz - Santiago de Capostella

ATLAS + SKETCH BOOK

DARK TRIAD 2012

http://thedarktriad.blogspot.no/

Pia GrungOlivier Bouvais

Dan Dorocic