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Collegiate Church of Santa Maria del Sar


Built on the banks of the River Sar, the most salient feature of the Collegiate Church of Sar are the flying buttresses of the exterior, built after the rest of the building (XVII and XVIII) to protect it from collapse, because for various reasons, Inside walls are visibly inclined. This feature of the interior, along with the flying buttresses, and confer a peculiar beauty and impressive temple, which was crowned with a dome in the XVIth century.

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La Xunta replica a culture that the European summit should take place in Galicia in the Jacobean


The Regional Minister of Culture, Roberto Varela, yesterday rejected the explanations offered by the central executive to move to Barcelona Summit of Ministers of Culture of the EU to be held in A Coruña. Varela told The Voice that the justification of "equitable land distribution," the minister put forward by Angeles Gonzalez-Sinde, "should not apply in a year as exceptional as the Xacobeo, which does not recur until 2021." In his opinion, that approach would be "logical in any other circumstances", but not in the Compostela Holy Year, so, he argues, "the central government should have made an exception."

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Manuel Carrasco "Inertia"


Event Date Sat, 30/01/2010 - 21:00

Andalusian composer and performer, has earned the respect of all with his way of making music. Pop Andalusian touches, letters with deep feelings and stories very intimate.

Continues to present their fourth album "Inertia" (Disco de Oro), produced by Cachorro López-winning producer (Julieta Venegas, Andres Calamaro, Diego Torres, Paulina Rubio ...) and which includes a duet with Malú version of the theme " What Does "absolute No. 1 song downloads according to the official list compiled by Media Control Gfk for Promusicae.

Education: Jordi Cristau, Mod. musical keyboards, Manuel Alvarez Montaño, guitar, Jose Manuel Posada on bass, David Bao, drums, Jose Luis Arrazola, guitar.

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The Xacobeo announce events is very large, according to manager


Monte do Gozo

The manager of the Management Company Jacobean Plan, Ignacio Santos, said that in programming this year are really big things to come and announced that in the coming weeks will be announced important events.

In an interview with RNE and collected by AssociatedPress, the manager admitted that the Xunta Xacobeo working to close "loose ends" for the confirmation of new events for Xacobeo.

With these events, Santos noted that Xunta recover the Monte del Gozo in order to "become one of the new programming gives Xacobeo centers. In this regard, said work will start to drop out of the premises by a team with architects and professionals from the production of events, which determine the minimum work necessary for this enclosure to house the program in the summer of year.

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Market Square


We can go shopping at the market for slaughter which has more than a century old and is located in the historic center of Santiago de Compostela.

Abastos market is a traditional market where you can find all the typical products of good quality Gallegos price: meats, seafood, fish, cheese, honey ...

Link to the website of the market -> here.

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