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The City of Cartagena and Obra Social La Caixa exhibition organized the way Europe was.
The pilgrimage to Santiago in the Middle Ages, which was presented this morning in the marquee on the port, compared with Submarino Peral, in a move that has benefited from the presence of the Councillor for Culture, Rosario Montero, accompanied by the director general la Caixa Foundation, Lluis Reverter and general delegate la Caixa in Murcia and Alicante, Victor Guardiola.
The exhibition, which can be seen from 17 September to 28 November in that tent, intended to show visitors through six distinct areas, the source of the Camino de Santiago, construction, daily life during the pilgrimage and infrastructure that formed the main route of pilgrimage in medieval Europe.
The exhibition, explained Reverter, is a tour that evokes the very Camino de Santiago with the intention that the viewer becomes a stranger and visit some of their main stops from the recreation of different environments through scenery: the market, craft workshops, the scriptorium, a pharmacy or hospital with her inside the Romanesque cathedral of Santiago during the Middle Ages.
CAMINO DE SANTIAGO IN EUROPE
El Camino de Santiago has significance in European history, one of the first backbone of the old continent.
The discovery of the tomb of the first apostle martyred in the ninth century represented a landmark finding that contributed to the consolidation of the territories conquered by the emerging Christian monarchies, as well as open up different ways of connecting with Christian Europe and the Muslim world Al-Andalus.
Noted that the exposure draft has been directed by José Manuel García Iglesias, Professor of History of Art UniversidaddeSantiago de Compostela and general curator of the exhibition of Xacobeo.
Noted that the curator is Professor of History of Art at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Juan Manuel Montero Monterrojo.
Pilgrimage "N
The tradition of the Camino de Santiago, which begins in the High Middle Ages (IX-XIII century) has come down to us with great force.
In the present context, it is difficult to think about why they started the pilgrimage to Santiago and the factors that helped to consolidate them.
Hard to imagine the difficulties in the path to the medieval pilgrim or the services it was along the road, and it is even difficult to think of the motivations that could take on a journey as uncertain and complicated.
The exhibition is specifically intended to approach the phenomenon of pilgrimage for centuries of splendor of the pilgrimage route.
For this, the sample is divided into six thematic sections: The medieval world, says the tradition ...; The construction of the road, A Way of Life, The Way and the Norman cathedral.
THE WORLD MEDIEVALEl first area of the exhibition the visitor through several maps of different eras how the world map of The Apocalypse Comentanos the Beatus of Liebana (1086 d.Cj ", the evolving world view through centuries since the collapse of the empire fiñalde romaho until the Middle Ages.
After the fall of Rome, Western Europe gradually recovered fragmented drive through Christianity.
The new belief promoted the idea of the oven viator, a man who traveled tirelessly in search of paradise and eternal life.
His worldview differed a world known, existing around the Mediterranean, another mysterious full of monsters and strange beings.
The traveler who avehturaba in those distant lands, men of Biblical kingdoms Aon, never returned.
A foreign ocean surrounding it on three continents.
The search for eternal salvation and new markets beyond the known lands contributed to draw, with the passage of time, the map of the world we know today.
In this area are also shown, through a video, the main events of the time, linking the emergence of Santiago de Compostela as a Christian pilgrimage center with the changes taking place in the Peninsula.
TRADITION SAYS "N
The origin of the Camino de Santiago is hard to pin down, sometimes the character will "gendario of the stories, others by the uncertainties of the chroniclers of the time.
However, the story of the discovery of the tomb was quickly released and accepted by the society of the early Middle Ages.
In this area presents a review of the facts, half historical, half legendary, leading to est? Establishment of Santiago de Compostela pilgrimage comolugar.
These facts highlight three important moments: death and beheading of the Apostle in Judea, where he returned after preaching in Hispanic lands, the theft and subsequent transfer of the body (transiatio) from Palestine to Galicia in a stone boat, and the discovery of the tomb (inventio) by the hermit Pelayo and the bishop of Iria Flavia Teodomiro.
This area also features two sets, one of a hermitage, a symbol of the origin of the cult of Santiago, evocation of eremitorium of Pelayo, and another reproduceun scriptorium as there were in the monasteries, which helped to disseminate the facts through of various works and, especially, the Codex Calixtino or Liber Sancti Jacobi.
THE CONSTRUCTION OF ROAD N
mong the ninth and thirteenth centuries, before becoming an exclusively religious path, the road was also used for political.
The new Christian kingdoms were in the discovery of the tomb of Santiago and the pilgrimage a way to consolidate the reconquered territories, while assuring its hegemony with the union of civil and religious power.
In this area are the characters who were instrumental in consolidating the pilgrimage route, ranging from Alfonso II, first as the architect of peregñnaciones, until the Catholic Kings, whose reign coincided with the end of the splendor of the road.
There is also talk.
consolidation of devotion to the apostle through the various images that exist in Santiago:
James Masters, sitting and majestic Santiago pilgrim hat with its attributes, refrain ymorral and Santiago knight on horseback armed blanco.Finalmente, we present the mass appeal that has attracted the pilgrimage to Santiago through the different types of pilgrim , their places of origin and the most characteristic objects they brought with them, like the backpack, the drone or scallops.
ONE WAY amino VIDAEl in the Middle Ages was a heavily traveled route.
Generated a wide range of activities and exchanges.
All this moyement populations caused by passing the amino § Ã markets to become more or less important, where local products were exchanged for those coming from other lands.
This area recreates the places and environments that was the medieval pilgrim along the road.
The first stop is the reconstruction of a medieval market, where we find food, manufactured goods, tools or even, instruments and music that circulated through the route.
We turn then to observe the work of artisans, from a half-built wall or reproductions of two workshops of silversmiths azabachéros and two craft activities more directly connect with the tradition of St James.
The visitor then enters the inside of a hospital for pilgrims, the first break in a cell for the walker and then in the pharmacy, where they prepared and administered the remedies for the major ills of the travelers.
THE success CAMINOPara Camino de Santiago was not enough to ideological and political protection was needed also an effort to provide it when the infrastructure necessary.
The pilgrimage to Santiago drove in a spontaneous and unplanned importahte building a road network, which was modified and adapted quickly, forming a system of roads and safe, equipped with corresponding services (hospitals, lodges, etc..) And also with their tolls, border pass and control centers.
In this context, we review the construction of infrastructure along the pilgrimage route.
It is chaired by a large map of amino § Ã French, which have been highlighted, some thirty buildings bridges, churches and hospitals directly related to service the pilgrims.
With the help of a model of Puente la Reina, you can see how they were born and evolved many villages under way.
ROMA NTIC CATHEDRAL
Without denying the relevance of many of the monuments found on the Camino de Santiago, Compostela Cathedral deserves a separate chapter.
Closely linked to the art of French way its sculptural decoration and architecture, óontituye the epitome of what has-been defined as a pilgrimage church.
The perception of the medieval cathedral by the pilgrims are produced from a mountain located in the suburbs, where for the first time could see the sacred place was going to visit.
This gaudil mountains meant a turning point in the route, and from there the pilgrims who traveled on horseback continued on foot and in some cases, even barefoot.
This space is dominated by a reproduction of the altar was originally placed on the tomb of the saint.
The field is completed by an audiovisual presentation that recreates the look you should be attending the temple, the pilgrims during the Middle Ages.
VISIT TO TIME Europe was way exposure.
The pilgrimage to Santiago in the Middle Ages, located at the Port of Cartagena, will be open from 17 September to 28 November 2010.
Hours are from Tuesday to Friday, from 12.30 to 14.00 and from 18.00 to 21.00. Saturdays, Sundays and holidays from 11 to 14 h from 17 to 21 hours, closed Mondays except holidays.
Remember that school visits should make an appointment by phone 902 906666, guided tours will be Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, 12 and 18 hours.
All entries are free.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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