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- zaterdag 2 augustus 2025 om 08:00
- ☀️ 16 °C
- Hoogte: 264 m
SpanjeSantiago de Compostela42°52’46” N 8°32’40” W
Day 42 - Santiago de Compostela
2 augustus, Spanje ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C
We made it!
Another early start and only a 10 km walk meant we had the cathedral plaza to ourselves. Later there would be hundreds of pilgrims and other tourists on the plaza all day. It also meantMeer informatie
Reiziger
"The botafumeiro is a 1.5-meter-tall (5-foot-tall) and 53-kilogram (117-pound) swinging incense burner that since the Middle Ages has been used both for ritual purposes and to disinfect and perfume the air filled with so many unwashed pilgrim bodies. (Its name in Spanish, echa humo—“smoke thrower”—describes it well.)"
Reiziger
"La Corticela, in the northeast corner at the end of the transept’s northern arm. It was originally a 9th-century church under the rule of the Benedictines at the Monasterio de San Martín Pinario next door, and was separate from the cathedral. It was absorbed during the cathedral’s expansion in the 12th century and reconfigured as a chapel within the larger temple."
Reiziger
"At night look also for what pilgrims popularly call the Shadow Pilgrim, a curious shadow that appears on the east wall of the cathedral, to the right of the Puerta de Perdón, given the angles of architectural lines and streetlights. See if you can find the profile view shadow cast of a hat-wearing pilgrim with staff; he looks as if he is making his way to the holy door."