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Praza de Obradoiro
Ruo Di Vila 43,
Santiago de Compostela
Galicia
Spain
Type: Historical Interest
Addmission Fee: Admission is Euro 1.50.
Hours: Open 10 am-1:30 pm and 4-7:30 pm.
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Santiago de Compostela
Galicia
Spain
Type: Historical Interest
Addmission Fee: Admission is Euro 1.50.
Hours: Open 10 am-1:30 pm and 4-7:30 pm.
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Surrounded by regal buildings on all four sides, the Praza de Obradoiro marks the final steps of the pilgrim and the point from which the town of Santiago de Compostela expanded during the years following the discovery of the sepulchre of the Apostle. The Praza is named for a workshop that occupied the space between 1738 and 1747; here the granite stones were carved for the new Baroque façade of the Catedral to replace the earlier Romanesque façade.
With its two Baroque towers mottled in gray and splotches of yellow moss, the Catedral looms commandingly over the plaza. Adjoining it to the left is the Palacio de Xelmírez a stark 12th-century palace that retains the Romanesque design it once shared with the Catedral.
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