Walking the Camino de Santiago
This is a close-up of the Romanesque window of the little church from yesterday. As I said yesterday, I find this little window absolutely exquisite. It seems to be the only remnant of the original decorative elements prior to the many renovations and restructurings of this church. I wonder what happened to the rest of the stonework? Date: 30 April […]
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Unfortunately, I don’t know in what village this little church is located. While it’s pretty clearly been renovated and changed around at least a couple of times over the centuries in various styles, the round apse is definitely Romanesque. The little window, of which you’ll see a clearer photo tomorrow, is exquisite and seems to be the only remnant of […]
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Is it a window? A short door? An entryway for animals? Who knows? And how long has it been abandoned? It’s the sort of liminal space that makes you stop and ponder, anyway. Or is that just me? Date: 30 April 2013 Place: between Palas de Rei and San Xulián (Province of Lugo, Galicia, Spain) Today started: Palas de Rei […]
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The next morning, rain! This pilgrim statue in Palas de Rei pretty much summed up the feelings of a lot of tired pilgrims this morning, pushing themselves into the storm. Date: 30 April 2013 Place: Palas de Rei (Province of Lugo, Galicia, Spain) Today started: Palas de Rei (Province of Lugo, Galicia, Spain)
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Apologies for the fuzziness! This pilgrim bar in Palas de Rei not only caters to pilgrims, it’s run by pilgrims, if the wall of Compostelas is anything to go by! I wish I could remember the name of the place Date: 29 April 2013 Place: Palas de Rei (Province of Lugo, Galicia, Spain) Today started: Portomarín (Province of Lugo, Galicia, […]
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Inside the parish church of San Tirso in Palas de Rei, I was particularly struck by this statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary with the Christ Child. There are several baskets nearby with a signs in various languages instructing pilgrims to take a slip of paper from inside. Each contains a short passage of scripture. Each time I have come […]
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This Santiago cross with the shell emblem is located on the Camino just past the local parish church of San Tirso in Palas de Rei, embedded in a narrow stone-paved street. I’ve always liked this image, and at one point I considered getting a tattoo of it. Ultimately, I opted for something different from a similarly embedded sign in Navarrete. […]
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This statue of Our Lady of Perpetual Help (Perpetuo Socorro) is in a courtyard next to the local parish church of San Tirso in Palas de Rei. Just past this church and shrine, the Camino takes a sudden turn, going sharply downhill on a narrow stone-paved street before suddenly dumping pilgrims in the modern urban streets of downtown Palas de […]
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At about five o’clock in the evening that day, we walked into the town of Palas de Rei, our intended destination. Although I was convinced that we were running quite late, as you can see we entered with a crowd of pilgrims all running on roughly the same schedule as us. Note that despite the name, there is no palace […]
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Just down the road from the ants, this is the little country church of Santiago de Lestedo. In this one photo, you can see a number of the things that characterize the Catholic culture of Spain, including a Cruceiro and the typical parish graveyard. While the village of Lestedo boasts a population of nine, the parish itself contains several of […]
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