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The Alameda and Nineteenth-Century Compostela
At the entrance to the Alameda, two women in painted bronze are waiting for you: theirs is the story of a family persecuted from 1936 onwards, and of a city that ended up making them a symbol.
Women of Compostela in Santiago de Compostela: audio walks
What place did women have in the city of the archbishop, the Camino and the university?
3 walks with different starting points and stories. Compare their maps, stops and duration, then choose where to begin.
Explore these walksCompostela's women had a place in the city of the Camino, the archbishop and the university. This theme follows their stories through routes connecting them with particular locations. The walks recognise their lives and their memory within the wider city, giving them more time than the brief attention a commemorative plaque usually receives.
In “Women of Compostela”: Behind the walls of Compostela lived women with names: abbesses who barricaded themselves against reform, nuns who fled by night, orphan girls, the university's first woman graduate and the founders of Belvís.
In “The Alameda”: At the entrance to the Alameda, two women in painted bronze are waiting for you: theirs is the story of a family persecuted from 1936 onwards, and of a city that ended up making them a symbol.
In “Witches and spirits”: Beyond the Porta do Camiño, a stone cross with a saint's name, a farrier who cried out to the Virgin on his way to the gallows and, at Bonaval, two homecomings that really happened: Rosalía in 1891 and Castelao in 1984.
Choose from 3 independent walks in Santiago de Compostela. Open the one that interests you to see its map, stops and approximate duration before deciding. You don't need to do them all or follow this selection's order; each walk has its own starting and finishing points.
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Witches and Wandering Souls: Compostela's Legends
Beyond the Porta do Camiño, a stone cross with a saint's name, a farrier who cried out to the Virgin on his way to the gallows and, at Bonaval, two homecomings that really happened: Rosalía in 1891 and Castelao in 1984.
The Women of Compostela
Behind the walls of Compostela lived women with names: abbesses who barricaded themselves against reform, nuns who fled by night, orphan girls, the university's first woman graduate and the founders of Belvís.
Santiago de Compostela, before you go
Granite, arcades and squares where someone has always just arrived. Santiago invites a slower walk, with a layer handy and time to wait for a shower to pass.
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