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City Guide  - Santiago de Compostela  - Sightseeing
Sightseeing

Santiago de Compostela's Old Quarter is often styled a 'living museum', and the Cathedral and other jewels are placed in a magnificent setting of winding paved and arcaded streets, granite walls and smaller monuments that create a superb ambience. The Cathedral itself overlooks several celebrated squares: Praza do Obradoiro, Praza das Praterias, Praza da Quintana and Praza da Inmaculada. Picturesque avenues and alleys radiate out from this centre, around which the city developed, to the other squares and sights of the Old Quarter: the Convento de San Francisco, the University and the Praza de Cervantes.

Tourist Information

Incolsa (Información y Comunicación Local)
(Santiago de Compostela Tourist Office)
Rúa do Vilar 63
Tel: (981) 555 129.
Opening hours: Daily 0800-2200 (summer); daily 1000-1430 (winter).
There is a second office at Praza de Galicia.

Oficina de Información de Turismo da Xunta de Galicia
(Galicia Region Tourist Information Office)
Rúa do Vilar 43.
Tel: (981) 584 081. Fax: (981) 565 178.
E-mail: ot.santiago@xunta.es.
Website: www.turgalicia.es
Opening hours: Mon-Fri 1000-1400 and 1600-1900, Sat 1100-1400 and 1700-1900, Sun 1100-1400).

Information specifically on pilgrimages routes is available from the Oficina de Información de Xacobeo, Avenida de la Coruña 6 (tel: (981) 572 004; fax: (981) 541 999; e-mail: xacobeoweb@xacobeo.es; website: www.xacobeo.es), and from the Oficina del Peregrinos, Rúa do Vilar 1 (tel: (981) 562 419; fax: (981) 566 030).



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