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Museo y Tesoro de La Catedral’s
Praza do Obradoiro,
Santiago de Compostela
Galicia
Spain
98 156 15 27
Type: Museum
Addmission Fee: Euro 5.
Hours: Open summers 10 am-1:30 pm and 4-7:30 pm, winters 10 am-1:30 pm and 4-6:30 pm.
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Santiago de Compostela
Galicia
Spain
98 156 15 27
Type: Museum
Addmission Fee: Euro 5.
Hours: Open summers 10 am-1:30 pm and 4-7:30 pm, winters 10 am-1:30 pm and 4-6:30 pm.
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The Museo y Tesoro de La Catedral’s motley collection is spread between the Catedral’s cripta (crypt), tesoro (treasury) and rooms off the claustro (cloister). The main exhibition spaces of the cloister are accessed from the Praza do Obradoiro. Inside, there seems to be a concerted effort to diagram and explain the processes behind the various construction and reconstruction phases the Catedral has undergone.
One room is given over to a scale reproduction of the Catedral’s original stone coro, an immaculate piece of craftsmanship by Maestro Mateo that was needlessly destroyed to make way for a wood coro that itself would eventually be removed. Ah the travesty. A wealth of 16th- and 17th-century tapestries attributed to the Flemish, French and Spanish crafters (along with a few machines) are on display.
The library houses the botafumeiro, that massive and intimidating censer, as well as the 12th-century Codex Calixtinus, a detailed log of the Camino de Santiago by the Frenchman Aymeric Picaud and credited as the world’s first guidebook. Various Romanesque sculptures and tombs have been culled from discoveries in the Catedral’s crypt, a beautiful barrel-vaulted church which is accessed directly beneath the front steps of the Catedral.
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