Alvarellos editora

Codex Calixtinus-Book V [English edition]

14,50 €

Pp. 104. Formato 12 x 22 cms.
ISBN 978-84-16460-75-5

Una nueva edición en inglés (en el mismo formato popular y de bolsillo en el que editamos en 2016 la edición en castellano) del texto más atractivo y popular del Códice Calixtino: el Libro V, escrito a mediados del siglo XII y que está considerado como la primera guía de viajes de Europa.

El Códice Calixtino fue reconocido en 2017 por la UNESCO como “Registro de la Memoria del Mundo”, una inscripción que reconoce a las grandes joyas documentales de la historia de la humanidad.

Nos encontramos pues ante un texto que es un tesoro imprescindible para todos los amantes del Camino, de la ciudad de Santiago y de la cultura europea.

El autor de este Libro V del Códice, posiblemente un monje francés llamado Aimeric Picaud, se detiene en los lugares, monumentos y gentes que encuentra a su paso por el Camino de Santiago. La narración nos hará viajar a los primeros tiempos de las peregrinaciones. El autor pretende «que los peregrinos que marchan a Santiago prevengan, con estas noticias, los gastos necesarios para su viaje».

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The Soutomaior Castle [English Ed.]

20,00 €

ByDiego Piay Augusto

Size: 17×21 cms. 184 pp.
English ISBN 978-84-16460-86-1

A place full of history

Every castle has its own history, but the one inside the Soutomaior Castle’s walls is very special. Nowadays it sits majestically and in silence, dominating the valley of the Verdugo river in the province of Pontevedra. Its past is hidden behind its sturdy walls and goes back to the 12th century. The fascination provoked by this place has gone through all the stages of its history and arrived to our days. Illustrious proprietaries and visitors have left here their permanent marks and they will be forever part of the Soutomaior Castle.This book, The Soutomaior Castle, a place full of history (Alvarellos Editora-Deputación de Pontevedra) is not an historical essay or a common guide, but an illustrated work that will allow us to discover a fortress that went from being the centre of power in Galicia during the Middle Ages to complete oblivion, and was revived again at the end of the 19th century.

A narration full of anecdotes and information unknown until this day, including more than a hundred pictures (historical and current ones), illustrations and plans that will immerse the reader in the history of one of the most outstanding monuments of the Rías Baixas.

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RETORNO A IRIA FLAVIA [CENTENARIO DE CJC 1916-2016]

20,00 €

ByCamilo José Cela

252 pp | 14 x 21 cms | tapa dura
ISBN-13: 978-84–89323–08–7
ISBN-10: 84–89323–08–9
1ª edición: noviembre, 2006

Obra dispersa y olvidada, 1940-2001

Camilo José Cela, Premio Nobel y genio universal de las Letras, se sentía hondamente gallego, consciente de pertenecer a una cultura singular. Retorno a Iria Flavia es un viaje definitivo de regreso a su tierra.

Medio centenar de trabajos en los que Galicia es el centro de su creación y reflexión –artículos, ensayos, epistolarios– constituyen esta primera antología “gallega” de su obra. Aparecen ahora reunidos por vez primera en un libro desde su primer artículo, escrito en 1940 y dedicado a Emilia Pardo Bazán, hasta las últimas columnas publicadas en el diario ABC poco antes de su fallecimiento.

Se añaden a estos trabajos cuatro documentos –uno de ellos inédito– de la correspondencia mantenida con eximios representantes de la actividad política y cultural nacionalista gallega de preguerra, algunos de los cuales trabajaban en su reactivación en los años 50: Otero Pedrayo, Vicente Risco, Fernández del Riego y Celso Emilio Ferreiro.

Como colofón, se reproducen varios manuscritos y una galería gráfica con fotos poco divulgadas y algunas inéditas.

Retorno a Iria Flavia es, en definitiva, una muestra patente de sesenta años continuados de relación profundamente afectiva y mutuamente enriquecedora entre el escritor y su país natal.

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María Vinyals, the woman of the future [English Edition] (Coming soon)

20,00 €

ByDiego Piay Augusto

Seven lives under the shadow of a castle

Size: 23,5×15,5 cms. 248 pp.
English ISBN 978-84-16460-71-7

This work is the result of a rigorous and thorough research, with a great amount of unpublished material (documental, graphic and oral testimonies), about the fascinating history of María Vinyals y Ferrés, born in 1875 in the Soutomaior Castle (Pontevedra).

She grew up in a wealthy family, lived intense experiences and ended up becoming a prolific writer, a pioneer in feminism and a woman worried about the future of the society that surrounded her.In her private life, she would rebel against the chains of an ill-fated marriage.

With her second husband –the Cuban doctor Enrique Lluria–, she would share politic and social ideals. Together they would end up founding a great sanatorium in 1910 using the old theatre of the Soutomaior Castle. They moved there with their five children, four of whom were from their previous marriages.

In 1917, drowning in debts and marginalized because of their political views, María Vinyals and Enrique Lluria would leave the Soutomaior Castle forever. It was then when their paths and those of their children Antonio, Enrique, Emilia, María Teresa and Roger, would take different courses and would never meet again.

This historical essay (published in tree languages: Spanish, Galician and English), looks back on those seven lives that grew up under the shadow of a castle. From this impressive medieval fortress, nowadays a public property owned by the Deputación de Pontevedra, Diego Piay travels beyond its walls and its battlements, beyond Pontevedra, Galicia… or Europe.

This history took shape inside the robust walls of this castle and now, so many years after, goes back to where it all began.

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Way of St. James from Santiago to Muxía via Brandomil [English Edition]

12,90 €

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.”

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Our books

Codex Calixtinus-Book V [English edition]

The Soutomaior Castle [English Ed.]

A place full of history

RETORNO A IRIA FLAVIA [CENTENARIO DE CJC 1916-2016]

María Vinyals, the woman of the future [English Edition] (Coming soon)

Way of St. James from Santiago to Muxía via Brandomil [English Edition]