Ler em Português On our Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, the historic city of Tui, just across the Minho River from Valença along the northwestern border of Portugal, was our entry point to the autonomous region of Spain known as Galicia. Archeological records show that the area of Tui (known during the Roman period as Tude) has been occupied by human beings since the Neolithic period (20,000 BC) Prominent in the city today is the Catedrál de Santa Maria de la Asunción de Tui (Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption, of Tui). With origins dating back to a primitive paleo-Christian Basilica of the fifth and sixth centuries, the Cathedral standing today was constructed six hundred years later, in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and restored in the 15 th and 19 th centuries Minho River The Principal or Western Entrance serves as the anteroom to the sacred space that is this gothic cathedral. Completed in 1225, its arches, guarded by figures of saints and kings, f...
Comments
Post a Comment