Padron - Iria Flavia 2.3 Km
The short distance between these two locations is totally urban, actually you do not know where it ends and begins Iria Flavia standard. The pilgrim has the feeling that Padron has not abandoned until the latter is exceeded by agricultural areas.
2. Iria Flavia - A Esclavitude- 3.9 Km
The pilgrim surrounded by the back the beautiful Collegiate Church of Santa Maria de Iria and soon to leave it behind, closely following the national road, and you can spot the needles sumptuous and baroque Marian sanctuary of A Escravitude, built in the s. XVIII on a fountain where a miracle that reason its construction took place.
3. A Esclavitude - 6.7 Km Rua francs
We left the miraculous fountain, located next to the road and turn right along a track that leads to the church of Santa María de Cruces. Forests and trails the railroad, which crosses at the height of the picturesque village of Suso Angueira is reached. Slowly and again after crossing the national road we approach the evocative enclave of Rúa de Francos. The route remains well signposted and peregrine just follow the yellow arrows that will lead to the tomb of the Apostle.
4. Rúa de Francos - Santiago de Compostela 10.8 Km
From there the road goes along a track, which is partly covered by trellised vineyards. The trace is nice and smooth ascent to Santiago, saving some steep slopes, hardly perceptible. Pilgrim passage runs through the villages of Osebe, and Biduido Milladoiro, the latter will be on your right. The towers of the Compostela Cathedral and intuit, Walker knows that the goal is near and it is perhaps for this reason that this stretch, increasingly urban, eternal.
First municipality in the province of A Coruña, having left behind the Pontevedra.
It is interesting to visit:
The "Pdrón"
The Pedrón is a stone ensures that served to tie the stone boat which also moved to St. James died, from Palestine to the Galician coast.
That in fact the Pedrón be a Roman altar, not remove or subtract historical religious value to this granite block, which became a symbol for millions of pilgrims who arrive without interruption until Compostela and then descend even to this town since that "who will and will not Santiago Padron, or make the pilgrimage or not."
Others, on the contrary, make today called Route Maritime and emulating their ancestors landed here to continue way to the tomb of the Apostle.
The Roman altar has an inscription, altered centuries later (he was added a cross and changed his own name on it), which some translate as "The Neptune's catorienses put out of pocket".
The Pedrón is below the high altar of the church of Santiago, built right on the left bank of the river Sar almighty order of Archbishop Gelmírez in the year 1133 and, according to his time, in Romanesque style.
Of the temple only a stone, which stands next to the door to the "Ram" is preserved, and the granite block it is engraved inscription "Dominus Ecclesia Procurator edificavit in was MCLXXI" which would translate to the current Castilian by "Mr. attorney church was built in the MCLXXI".
The temple disappeared and modernized, now gothic style by Bishop Lope de Mendoza. It survived even these times a pulpit stone and nothing else, because the mid-nineteenth century was raised in the current place, with a symmetrical facade paradigmatic of the eclectic style.
Convento del Carmen
The traveler has before if the Costanilla del Carmen (or Costiña do Carme) that beautifully paved and unpaved nowhere, rises to the convent del Carmen.
That convent of Discalced Carmelites first and then the Dominicans, is a good example of Galician neoclassical, become spontaneous viewpoint over the town.
It is built on solid rock at the beginning of the century XVIII with the invaluable financial contribution of Alonso de la Peña and Montenegro, standards that became rector of Compostela University, and is attached to the Mount San Gregorio, one of whose slopes stands the chapel of Santiaguiño do Monte.
Convent of S. Antonio de Herbón
The convent of San Antonio is the Franciscan shows par excellence: these monks settled there and still there; a source representing one of them in prayer posture indicates that it was built in 1786, but the date should not be misleading: the religious were already in place in 1396.
Everything is sobriety, silence, prayer and work. Nothing dazzles alone, but the whole exudes an aura of mystery, of stillness, of enclosing the puzzle that explains that, despite all the vicissitudes, the enclosure has been, is and will remain a center in the whole region speaking with deep respect.
It is possible that all this contributes the fact that you are stuck in a ravine, and to reach it have to descend a steep and long ramp first and stairs later, to stop at the sober facade with its bell tower .
Inside the temple, the profuse ornamentation of the altar does not help to continue that feeling of sobriety. They do not claim anything, but in history know that they were the Franciscans, who brought America the plant of the famous peppers.
Business hours in goal are nine to one, and 4:30 to 8:30.
Church of Santiago
The church of Santiago de Padrón, austere neoclassicism, keeps testimonies of the foregoing, an inscription of times Gelmírez, patron of the Romanesque church and a Gothic pulpit with the image of Santiago Peregrino temples belonging to the fifteenth century church who built the archbishop Lope de Mendoza.
These medieval temples, overcome by the passage of time, and kept in his presbytery the Jacobean part of the town: the Pedrón interpreted as Roman altar dedicated to Neptune and in which, according to tradition, the boat was moored de Pedra he had transported the body of the Apostle and his two disciples Teodoro and Atanasio.
In the High Middle Ages it was used as a basis Pedrón ara altar of the early church dedicated to St. James, built by Bishop Teodomiro in the ninth century.
Roman bridge
If the traveler from the south, in the province of Pontevedra, would have to save the width Ulla by a bridge whose foundations were Roman, although today successive reforms mutilate the work and is difficult to recognize the footprint of the Latin Empire.
Puente Santiago
Once the visitor rested on the protected banks from the sun by trees Ram, it is best to cross the bridge of Santiago whose date is 1852, which replaced one that was destroyed by a flood of the river. This bridge links the area called "A trabanca" with the old town of Padrón.
Cross the bridge, a mandatory visit is to visit the source of the Carmen and the convent. Also on the same street, we can climb the stairs that lead us to "Santiaguiño".
Fuente del Carmen
It was rebuilt when it ended the eighteenth century, where a clear registration abroad informs the newcomer that this source was rebuilt reigning Don Carlos IIII being mayor Joaquin Foxi Bendaña in the year 1789, while the interior is noted that the illustrious Don Manuel de Sanlúcar, bishop of Sidonia, granted 40 days indulgence the all devoutly pray a salve in front of the image.
Quito Bishop's Palace
Very close to the Plaza de Macías is the town hall, built in the eighteenth century and boasts granite shield of the town and a short distance, also is the palace of the Bishop of Quito, which was owned by Alonso de la Pena and Montenegro, who played the dignity of bishop and was, in Peru, commander in chief of Quito; in that American country he died in 1688. In the palace, asoportalado, where to send the semicircular arch, highlighting the two shields facing the Calle de los Dolores, one of them with the date 1669.
Location attached to Padron, where you can visit laColegiata of Iria Flavia (O Santa María de Adina)
Location attached to Padron, where you can visit laColegiata of Iria Flavia (O Santa María de Adina) Padron between Cruces and the almost obligatory stop is Iria Flavia, also known as Santa Maria of Adina and where, when the Romans imposed their law, came together a total of seven tracks.
Yes there are big words, because it is one of the oldest churches in Galicia. Former Episcopal See and first Marian temple in the world. Vespasian (Titus Flavius), Roman emperor rose to Iria consideration by municipality and thereafter was called Flavia. San Agatadoro, was the first to occupy the episcopal chair, in the year 40 of our era.
Teodomiro, bishop of Iria, with his retinue of canons, was the one who discovered the tomb of St. James July 25 813. year, hence the great importance in the Jacobean tradition. After the discovery of the relics of St. James the importance of Iria Flavia went to Santiago-growing as quickly this iriense council declined but currently remains a place of worship in the Jacobean tradition.
The Pedrón, the Rocks and the Church of Iria, are the three pillars of the Jacobean crib, being this way the myth was born in Santiago Padrón.
Iria Flavia does not impress both its building -although attention-grabbing escalonadas- towers and its history: in this church are buried 28 Bishops Santos as were always around the cemetery (and where, currently, archaeologists were responsible to bring to light a good relationship of anthropoid sarcophagi and another set of objects). In the cemetery of Santa Maria de Adina he requested and was buried the great poet Rosalia de Castro today in the Pantheon of Illustrious Gallegos in Santiago de Compostela.
The first temple was built parallel to the introduction of Christianity, and at the end of century X Almanzor reduced it to ashes.
The Archbishop Gelmírez, in the twelfth century, ordered the reconstruction of the building, more than two and a half centuries underwent a complete refurbishment.
Today, inside, stained glass, the chapel of the Bishop of Quito and the tombs of bishops look irienses stop, as with the tympanum-representing the Adoration of the Reyes abroad.
Sanctuary of Slavery
But Padron is not just the town. He knows well who comes from the north by the National Highway 550, which has suddenly found the left with a temple to which the first adjective that applies is high.
Because, in fact, the sanctuary of A Escravitude gives a sense of height. Do not rush to enter the temple, because then forget the source -a asphalt-flush in the eighteenth century in a patient who was heading to Santiago de Compostela for his dropsy cure drank and cured 72 hours without any medical intervention.
Joyfully he exclaimed: "Thank you, Virxe, which gives me Escravitude libraches do meu bad". That, says the legend confused with history, was the origin of the sanctuary, which began lifting thanks to the oxcart that lucky with divine favors (a farmer from the Pontevedra region of O Salnés) donated to lift the building.
In the following century the second of its towers was finished, ending a historic process that had begun long before, when he had just the sixteenth century and the pastor of Cruces he had placed on the source image of the Virgin and Child in gratitude by one of the favors he had received from her.
Puente muy simple, de granito y posiblemente de los siglos XVI ó XVII. Posee tan sólo un vano y se piensa que en la antigüedad servía de paso desde un castro, próximo a la zona, y Calo.
What to visit
Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela. The Romanesque cathedral, drawn following the French model of the churches of the pilgrimage, rises (1075-1211), promoted by Bishop Diego Pelaez and directed by Maestro Esteban on the remains of early churches built in the place appeared the ashes of the Apostle.
Museum of the Galician. Created in 1976, it is the first museum of Galicia that from the perspective of cultural anthropology, tries to encompass and relate the various human manifestations within a distinct community. In addition to the permanent exhibition, other activities are regularly organized exhibitions, courses, conferences ... and publications are edited.
Galician Center for Contemporary Art. Constituted as a dynamic center of cultural life of a city marked by art and history, it was designed and built between 1988 and 1993 by the Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza (1993 Pritzker Prize).
Cathedral Museum. Founded in 1930, now in the museum tour includes three zones with independent access, all located in various offices of the Compostela Cathedral, which allows a complete knowledge of history and artistic importance of a cult cultural important center for humanity.
