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Capilla de San Roque August 16th The feast of St. Roque, one of the city’s most popular saints, is a public holiday in...

Celebrations and traditions

Cemetery of Boisaca November 1st and 2nd On November 2nd, the Church remembers its dead ones and the cemeteries fill with flowers, which...

Celebrations and traditions

Entire city Variable date corresponding to the sixth Thursday after Easter Sunday. The Ascension Festival, the city’s second-most...

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The Apostle James

The Codex Calixtinus specifies that the apostle James “was martyred on March 25, on July 25 he was taken from Iria to Compostela and was...

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El Camino de Santiago es una cantera inagotable para los guionistas del mundo audiovisual. Películas, series, road movies, concursos,...

History

There were numerous motives for undertaking the pilgrimage. Pope Callistus, in 1122, during the diffusion of the Gregorian reforms, instituted...

Brotherhoods

This brotherhood is in charge of the Procession of 'Los Estudiantes' on Holy Wednesday. Year of Foundation Founded in...

The Cathedral’s remotest precedent was a small 1st-century Roman mausoleum, where the remains of the Apostle James Apostle James were...

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Conoce Boqueixón y visita sus parroquias, pues cuentan con suficientes motivos para conocer, desde capillas e iglesias parroquiales...

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