Alvarellos Editora

Benxamín Vázquez
Fotografías de Xaime Cortizo

146 pp. Formato 12 x 22 cms
ISBN 978-84-18567-31-5
Impreso en papel FSC

Santiago de Compostela é quizais a cidade europea con maior densidade de gárgolas, esas máscaras pétreas —enigmáticas, divertidas, transgresoras— que nos contemplan desde o alto a partir da Idade Media. Hai máis de 300, e nesta pioneira guía trilingüe (galego, castelán e inglés) selecciónanse 30 das máis singulares, nunha ollada nova e moi sorprendente desta capital.

Santiago de Compostela es quizás la ciudad europea con mayor densidad de gárgolas, esas máscaras de piedra –enigmáticas, divertidas, transgresoras– que nos contemplan desde lo alto a partir de la Edad Media. Hay más de 300, y en esta guía seleccionamos 30 de las más singulares, en una nueva y muy sorprendente visión de esta capital.

Santiago de Compostela is perhaps the European city with the highest density of gargoyles, those stone figures –enigmatic, amusing, transgressive– that have peered down on us since the Middle Age. There are more than 300, and in this guide we select 30 of the most unique, offering a new and quite surprising vision of this capital.

A historic pilgrimage route featuring remains from Roman times

116 pp. 12 x 22 cms.
ISBN 978-84-16460-65-6

This guide invites us to travel along a historical trail that is still largely unknown. It is the shortest route between Santiago de Compostela and Muxía, used by pilgrims and travellers for centuries, with the medieval bridge of Brandomil as one of its emblems.

An 86-km route that is presented here with all of its attractions: map with stages, sites and monuments
to visit, and illustrated with 75 striking photographs. A practical guide that invites us to explore nature and history at leisure because, in the author’s words, “to walk old paths… is to claim the future.”