Whichever Camino you walked, it has brought you to Santiago de Compostela, where you have embraced Saint James and received your Compostela from the Pilgrim’s Office. Now, you find yourself standing in Obradoiro Square wondering where to next.
A Galicia Blog
From January, 2016
Camino Sanabrés, in pictures
The Camino Sanabrés is a variant of the Vía de la Plata (Silver Route), entering Galicia from the province of Zamora in Castile-León. The Galician portion of the Sanabrés has seven stages totaling nearly 200 kilometers (125 miles).
Teresa Moure
[prose] Teresa Moure is one of Galicia’s most accomplished writers. She is the author of five novels, the most famous of which is Black Nightshade, which received numerous accolades when it was first published, including the Xerais Prize for best novel.
Berta Álvarez Cáccamo
[art] Berta Álvarez Cáccamo (Vigo, Pontevedra) is a Galician painter linked to the Atlantic Group, a movement of Galician artists created in 1980 with the aim of reviving Galician visual arts.
Martín Codax
[poetry] The identity of troubadour Martin Codax (Vigo) is essentially synonymous with his seven surviving Cantigas de Amigo, written in Galician-Portuguese, the dominant vernacular literary language of medieval Spain.
Regions of Galicia
As you leave Madrid and traverse the Castilian meseta, dark-blue mountains rise slowly before you. John Barlow wrote in Everything But The Squeal that when you cross these mountains you cross not only a geographical boundary but also a cultural boundary. Beyond lies Galicia, a land of dualities. Sea and land. Coast and mountain. Village and city. Sun…
Marilar Aleixandre
[prose] “I use the Galician Language as a literary language because I have a forked tongue, however not all the creatures with a forked tongue are bad. I think that all stories and poems are messages written in ink, spittle or blood, that we throw into space wishing that somebody receives them.”
Xosé Lodeiro
[art] “I think my paintings are beautiful, lonely, and serious.” ~ Xosé Lodeiro (Vigo).
Ramón Cabanillas
[poetry] Ramón Cabanillas (Cambados, Pontevedra) was considered the link between the Rexurdimento and twentieth century modernism in Galician literature.
O Faro 