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| Compostelle, le grand chemin |
| Xavier Barral i Altet, born in 1947, professor of History of Art of the Middle Ages at the University of Rennes II is today the Director General of the Musée national d'art in Catalogne in Barcelona. |
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| Catherine Wolstencroft |
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Informations
Support: book
Media's author : Xavier Barral I Altet
Language : French
Editor : Découvertes Gallimard Religions
Publishing year : 1993
ISBN/ISSN : 2-07-053249-6
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Santiago! Thousands of pilgrims shouted this cry of joy while arriving at Compostelle, on the tomb of Saint Jacques the Major, the
apostle of Spain, who died in Jerusalem, was buried in Galicia, and became in the
IX century the "Matamore", a symbol of the fight against the Moors. In the XII century, the < i>Guide of the pèlerin indicated the four main roads which, in Spain, converge to form the < i>camino francés. And if the halts, inns and old people's homes, changed, if the pilgrimage is less long and perilous, the sacred places - a true anthology of the Romanesque art drawn up by Xavier Barral I Altet - will remain the same: Turns, Vézelay, Conches, Toulouse, Ronceaux, Leon, Jaca, Burgos, and Saint-Jacques-of-Compostelle. Many stages on main road of the"jacquets". |
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