19 Sights in Santiago de Compostela, Spain (with Map and Images)

Santiago de Compostela is the only place in the parish of Santiago de Compostela, in the municipality of Santiago de Compostela, in the region of Santiago. As of 2023, it had 82,591 inhabitants. It is the capital of the municipality.

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The Cathedral Museum of Santiago de Compostela is an institution that hosts and exhibits various artistic and archaeological works, owned by the see of Compostela, which range from Roman times to the present. It was created with the aim of preserving and exposing to the public disused liturgical objects, donations from noble pilgrims and the different archaeological remains that were discovered in the different interventions in the cathedral and its surroundings. Among its holdings are archaeological displays, painting, sculpture, goldsmithing, tapestries, carpets, liturgical clothing, ceramics and furniture.

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San Francisco de Val de Deus is a Franciscan convent founded in the early thirteenth century in Santiago de Compostela, declared a historic artistic monument. It is located in the old town of the city, in the place known as the Valley of God.

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The Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, CGAC is an arts centre based in Santiago de Compostela that aims to promote culture in Galicia through exhibition, enjoyment and knowledge of the trends and currents of contemporary artistic creation.

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The Museum of Pilgrimages and Santiago is a museum in Santiago de Compostela focused on the universal phenomenon of pilgrimage and the birth and development of the city of Santiago around the cathedral and the pilgrimage to the tomb of Santiago the Greater.

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The Pantheon of Illustrious Galicians is located in the church of the convent of San Domingos de Bonaval, in Santiago de Compostela. The whole church is Pantheon, even if only the Chapel of the Visitation and the Chapel of the Holy Christ are being used. It rests the remains of outstanding Galicians such as the poet Rosalía de Castro, the regionalist politician Alfredo Brañas, the sculptor Francisco Asorey, the poet Ramón Cabanillas, the geographer Domingo Fontán and the nationalist artist and politician Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao.

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The church of San Fiz de Solovio is a religious temple located in the center of the city of Santiago de Compostela. It is reputed to be the oldest church in the city, although it has been demolished, rebuilt and subjected to different renovations and subsequent extensions over eight centuries. It is dedicated to San Fiz.

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The Fonte das Pratarías, better known as Fonte dos Cabalos is a monumental fountain in the Baroque style of Compostela, designed by J. Pernas from 1825 that is located in the centre of the Plaza de las Pratarías, in the old city of Santiago de Compostela.

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The church of the Anguishes below, church of the Real Angustia or church of San Froitoso, is a churrigueresque-style temple located in Santiago de Compostela, at the rent of the Plaza del Obradoiro, which was designed by Lucas Ferro Caaveiro in the eighteenth century.

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The Monument to San Francisco is a work made between 1926 and 1930 by the Galician sculptor Francisco Asorey and located in the old area of Santiago de Compostela, in the place known as the Valley of God, in front of the church of the Convent of San Francisco of the Valley of God.

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The Church of Santa María a Real do Sar is a church located in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. It was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1895.The church lies on the banks of the Sar river, which flows past Santiago.

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The church of Santa María Salomé is a Catholic temple originally built in the twelfth century located in Santiago de Compostela, Galicia. It is considered the only church dedicated to Santa Salomé, mother of the Apostle Santiago.

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Dolmen Novo Milenio is a sculpture by Silverio Rivas from 2000 located in the Music Park in Santiago de Compostela, opposite the Auditorium of Galicia. The work was inaugurated as part of the celebrations of the European Capital of Culture in 2000.

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The Church of the Society of Jesus, better known to Compostelans as the Church of the Company or Church of the University, located in the University Square, bordering the Plaza de Mazarelos or the Institute, was built by the Jesuits in the seventeenth century, ending its construction in 1767, and belonged to the College of the Society of Jesus until, after the expulsion of the Jesuits, It became the chapel of the University from 1769.

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The Ramón María Aller Astronomical Observatory is a research and scientific teaching centre belonging to the University of Santiago de Compostela, located in the Campus Vida of the capital of Galicia, and directed by José Ángel Docobo. The site was built in 1943 with the sponsorship of the CSIC by the Galician astronomer Ramón María Aller Ulloa, who was then working at the USC and decided to move from his native Lalín to Santiago de Compostela the devices of the Astronomical Observatory of Lalín, which he himself had built 31 years earlier in the town of Tená, to continue his study of the stars.

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The Church or Chapel of the Church of Santa Susana is a Roman Catholic temple originally built in the Romanesque style in the 12th century in Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain. It is located in Parque da Alameda, the most emblematic park in the city, more precisely in Carballeira (oak forest) of Santa Susana, at the top of the Passeio da Ferradura.

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The Church or Chapel of Nuestra Señora del Pilar (Galician: Igrexa del Pilar; Spanish: Iglesia de Nuestra Señora del Pilar) is a Roman Catholic temple built in 1717 in Baroque style in Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain. It is located in Parque da Alameda, the most emblematic park in the city, next to the Passeio da Ferradura and close to the Church of Santa Susana.

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The Palace of Ramirás or Palace of the Counts of Ramiranes, also known as the College of the Irish, is a pazo ("house-palace") located on Rua Nova, in the historic center of Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain.

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The Natural History Museum of the University of Santiago de Compostela, better known as the Natural History Museum "Luis Iglesias", is a centre with strong educational and social potentials, since in addition to its research and formal education tasks, it focuses its future on scientific dissemination, responding to the obligations that this University has with citizens. The new facilities available since 2014 and its total renovation make it a modern museum, which shows the natural sciences in a comprehensible and rigorous way in a context like the current one, of growing social interest in the environment.

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