Dic 24 2010 Santa Maria Nova: Church gravestones speaking

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  Amid the urban center of a city surrounded by a river, the mountains and the signal from a nearby sea. A modern cemetery is to the left of the view, the first person to cross the street, then a fence and then fixed in a strange church. A church? A cemetery? Are both things at once?

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  Amid the urban center of a city surrounded by a river, the mountains and the signal from a nearby sea. A modern cemetery is to the left of the view, the first person to cross the street, then a fence and then fixed in a strange church. A church? A cemetery? Are both things at once?

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  Amid the urban center of a city surrounded by a river, the mountains and the signal from a nearby sea. A modern cemetery is to the left of the view, the first person to cross the street, then a fence and then fixed in a strange church. A church? A cemetery? Are both things at once?

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  Amid the urban center of a city surrounded by a river, the mountains and the signal from a nearby sea. A modern cemetery is to the left of the view, the first person to cross the street, then a fence and then fixed in a strange church. A church? A cemetery? Are both things at once?

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  Amid the urban center of a city surrounded by a river, the mountains and the signal from a nearby sea. A modern cemetery is to the left of the view, the first person to cross the street, then a fence and then fixed in a strange church. A church? A cemetery? Are both things at once?

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Amid the urban center of a city surrounded by a river, the mountains and the signal from a nearby sea. A modern cemetery is to the left of the view, the first person to cross the street, then a fence and then fixed in a strange church. A church? A cemetery? Are both things at once? The building is not Gothic, or the crosses that monitor what attract entry. Are tombstones, but not in the ground. Are tombstones had no deaths appear to be covered. They are talking tombstones. Each and every one of them. All with their own language. No doubt, llegada him to the temple of Santa Maria Nova, in the town of Noia A Coruña.

Gone are scarce 40 There are miles of road from Santiago de Compostela. Shows arrogant Noia, between fog and persistent rain that it involves Galicia. Before me is the church, commissioned by the Bishop Berenguer de Landoira and consecrated in 1327, which has now become a museum, a museum of tombstones. What do these awards or plaques? Images, Drawings, unwritten words that symbolize what is unknown. Each of these slabs, that survived the weather and now stand exposed indoors, have a specific meaning. In principle, all dating from the fourteenth to nineteenth centuries. Some seem to represent a trade union and: butchers, cobblers, Other carpenters ... it seems that talk of the sea and seafaring (have an anchor) and other human figures represent, that in some cases it may be pilgrims. But the question is, Only "drawings carved in stone to represent a profession or mean something else in a language that today still do not understand?

A secret code

Martínez Tomé, in his book "The Secret of Compostela" speaks of this place in these terms: "Behind the walls and the church of Santa Maria Nova found the trail of a strange analogies with just liturgy inscultórica (…) It seems that we are in a cemetery that is not dead to pray (…) Many of those signs that style reminiscent of the slabs prehistoric petroglyphs and medieval Galicia, course, the secret language of masons, builders associations that have occurred since pre-Roman times to the Gothic. All this had to respond to hidden motives probably related to some kind of spiritual transformation that is embodied as a code inscultórico and whose proper interpretation should be reserved exclusively to some heirs of the old ancestral tradition, the only ones able to access their deepest meaning: meaning that we can only guess superficially. Therefore, intuition is the only hope we draw interpretive blurred the true meaning of a clearly occult symbolism in the eyes of XXI century ".

Someone has noted on occasion that another could be a real cemetery, tombstones which kept the secret of the gentlemen who moved up there.

The words of the journalist and researcher of the mysteries of Galicia are safe to contextualize the impressive stone document is the collection of tombstones of Santa Maria Nova. From the profane, the mere display of each slab and drawings produced a strange feeling. We are finishing the Middle Ages, time of writing low-how some historian says, eg, Mudejar painting was the language of the illiterate,, the people do not know just reading and writing and drawings are a way to communicate. The theory of a temple dedicated to deify, if you want, different professions can be valid union, why not; but it seems that there is more. Universal symbolism, astrology, tongs, characters that appear to come from beyond. Someone has noted on occasion that another could be a real cemetery, tombstones which kept the secret of the gentlemen who moved up there.

A cruise, thousand legends

But there is more. Outside the church, in the cemetery, There is a small square shrine with a stone cross inside, finished on top by a pyramidal roof rests on four pillars. Legend has it that the temple was donated by a soldier who returned the Temple of the Crusades and brought the land of the Holy Places which states that the cemetery was filled. Another legend says that the monument was donated two inseparable brothers, "Monks of the temple of the Lord from Jerusalem", they were fighting the infidel and were separated in the middle of a battle. Not find it again, although the largest was looking for her brother for seven years by land Moors. At last he returned to his hometown of Noia and ordered to lift the stone cross in memory of missing girl, that believed dead. But this, after seven years, after much deliberation, managed to escape and reached the same place. Also sent up the bandstand on the stone cross in thanksgiving and in perpetual memory of the love shown by his brother ", Juan Carlos Fernández account.

Anyway, The temple is full of symbolism. A pyramid supported on four pillars and inside a Christ Crucified. A metaphor for humanity, represented on the pyramid (wisdom and ascent to divinity) in a way to return, with that light dweller, the God who is who dwells in the pyramid. The two friezes of the temple are also shockingly deep over the visible. Of intuition and mind, and how they both seek to eternity. Other authors have consulted believe that this place might have also some intervention by the Inquisition and the temple itself could be used as a place of punishment for the unbelievers.

At the end of this journey into the past, is the feeling of having hidden sites inspected in memory. Traveling can be both a journey of hundreds of miles and several centuries. That is what, to understand that history continues to speak and you can learn as we travel through time.

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Noia is 35 kilometers from Santiago de Compostela for the C-543.

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To sleep, Santiago de Compostela in the offer is varied, but we recommend Hotel Airas Nunes (good price and in the historical center) and the hostel Mapoula, attached to the cathedral, and rooms at a great price and very comfortable.

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There are two very desirable places. On the one hand, the Restaurant The Murderer, very good meat and a place full of history. For lovers of the sea, the advice is more surprising: go to medieval market, one of the most beautiful in Spain, and market their own bar will cook the products you buy at the lowest price set by a. Do not stop, eat fresh seafood at a price that will not find in the whole city.

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Of course, strongly recommend a visit to Santiago de Compostela exhaustive. But our intention is to offer something that escapes from the obvious and Noia is a fascinating excursion and less known by the mark of the centuries. Try and tell us if it was worth.

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