Way of St. James is a photograph by Guido Montanes Castillo which was uploaded on May 23rd, 2014.
Way of St. James
Train in Way of St. James. By the Nalon river
The Way of St. James or St. James's Way (commonly known by its name in Spanish: El Camino de... more
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Way of St. James
Artist
Guido Montanes Castillo
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Photograph
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Train in Way of St. James. By the Nalon river
The Way of St. James or St. James's Way (commonly known by its name in Spanish: El Camino de Santiago) is the name of any of the pilgrimage routes (most commonly the Camino Francés or French route) to the shrine of the apostle St. James the Great in the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia in northwestern Spain, where tradition has it that the remains of the saint are buried.
Train in Peñaflor Bridge
The historic bridge, original Romanesque presents a modified repeatedly , due to frequent breakdowns that it has caused , over the centuries, the Nalón structure. There is documented about a dozen works of various kinds , among which include those made in the late sixteenth century and the late seventeenth . But perhaps you are been those made a few decades ago , to enable the passage of narrow gauge railway , which more markedly affecting its primitive morphology.
Bridge and documented in the first half of the twelfth century ; 22 June 1144 the king Alfonso VII , with his wife , Dona Berengaria , and children, donate goods for various factory and the founding of an inn nearby. It is possible that its construction was motivated by the destruction of another such structure , the bridge 's rail , far upstream , just under a mile.
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May 23rd, 2014
