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Álvaro De Soto López, Jorge Rodríguez Garrido, Nayra Prado González, Sofía Álvarez Castro · 26 abril 2019 16:50


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1 Indicator of "Camino de Santiago-Finisterre" It's the first parade of our group, here is a indicator of km of "Camino de Santiago-Finisterre" It is a artificial rock that have numbers and a draw of a scallop in it. This numbers are the missing kilometers to Finisterra. The countdown begins with 87 km, in Santiago de Compostela, and finishes in Cabo Finisterre. The scallop is the symbol of the pilgrimage. Formerly, all the pilgrims who arrived to Santiago received a scallop shell. Wearing the shell was considered a tribute to the Apostle, and people could distinguish wich pilgrims were coming back home or wich ones didn't arrive to Santiago yet. Nowadays, scallop shel is just a symbol of the Camino de Santiago. 42,886640548 -8,632583928
2 Medieval bridge "Camino de Santiago-Finisterra" passes next to this medieval bridge. We aren't going to explain more things about it because this element was choosed by other group. 42,889476422 -8,650334913
3 End of our rout "Camino de Santiago-Finisterre" continues a long distance to Finisterre, but we finish our route here. 42,888998526 -8,653498935
4 Another Signal of "Camino de Santiago-Finisterre" This is another indicator of the way. Here, we can see other numbers in the indicator of kilometers to Finisterre, evidently. But we can see somethinng new. On this rock are a group of small stones. It's a tradition to put a small stone over the signal of the way, and that has its story. We don't know who began this tradition, but we know why. In the origins, people did this to indicate to next pilgrims that people have already went down that way. But now, people leave small stones there due to another reason. Experts on "Camino de Santiago" explain that people usually do this to get free of problems, sadness and fear, these things get petrified in the way. 42,886539975 -8,634737491
5 Another Signal of "Camino de Santiago-Finisterre" else Here, we are going to tell a story about the scallop shells of the Camino de Santiago. It was a young man who was playing a game or challenge. The game consisted in throw to the air a spear, and the carrier of the spear had to catch it before it fell down, riding a horse. The spear of the man fell into the sea, and the men and the horse tried to catch it, but they fell into the water. There was a boat of a group of pilgrims who tourned surprised when the man came out the water, but he had his body full of scallop shells. The fact that the man was saved and his subsequent immersion to the Christianity was thought as a miracle, so it was established that every pilgrim who did Camino de Santiago, should wear a scallop shell. 42,889780962 -8,650404350


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Francos' street
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There's no any explanation about the name of this street but the Rúa de Francos was in the medieval ages a important place of settlements of pilgrims because it is only 14 km. to santiago. The cross of this road dates on the 14 century and it's one of the oldest cruiceds in galicia. It has a granitic base without trates and a gotic style cruice. It was painted in one of Castelao pictures. The Paradela brigde is a contruction from the late medieval ages and it's part of the portugues way to santiago. In Sant's Martiños forest there's also a tradicional feast on 11st november (the horse feast of sant's martiño) that it's celebraded since 16 century. This feast born as a means to raise funds when the crown increased the taxes of the town. ( secoundary information from the official page of galician turisma and primary sources of photography)
 

Laura Montaña Mata, Mateo Pardal Vila, Raúl Suárez Cea, Ruben Noya Doce · 30 abril 2018 15:37


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1 Carballeira de Francos Here we are going to start our explanation and we are going to talk about the feast and wwere going to see the informational poster. 42,815039804 -8,621993065
2 Calvary Here we're going to explain the cross and it's meaning. 42,814622684 -8,620045781
3 Paradelas brigde Here we are going to expain the santiagos way and say the riddle. 42,814977062 -8,621329553

Riddle
Four has the deck of cards,
also four has the chess game,
many are in the stables,
can you tell me what it is?

Answer: the horse.

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The order of Santiago
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The order of Santiago is a order of cavalry. It created in the mid of XII century. It's created with the objective of protect the people who make a pilgrimage to Santiago of Compostela of the attack of Muslims. The order of Santiago was one of the most important and big orders in the Iberian Peninsula. The Santiago road is related to order of Santiago considering that pilgrims walked around the road and knights of the order of Santiago protected pilgrims. This information is in some webs: - http://www.ordenesmilitares.es/orden-de-santiago/ - http://xacopedia.com/Santiago_Orden_de_los_Caballeros_de - https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orden_de_Santiago - http://www.rtve.es/television/20130517/isabel-era-orden-santiago-importancia-tenia/665285.shtml
 

Andrea Rodríguez Ramos · 1 mayo 2018 17:55


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1 Alto do Vento It's a section of Santiago road to Muxía or Finterra. This place is related to order of Santiago because the pilgrims walked for Santiago road. 42,880335822 -8,623137177

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When was the order of Santiago de Compostela created?

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Enrique Martínez Vieites, Joel López Palacios, Yago Cobas Romero · 25 abril 2018 19:17


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Malena Salas Pazos, Nerea Sánchez Lens · 22 abril 2018 16:22


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1 Bertamiráns Here is a sign indicating that Bertamiráns begins 42,862985652 -8,638683919
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