Santiago de Compostela (Galician: [santiˈaɣo ðe komposˈtɛla], Spanish: [sanˈtjaɣo ðe komposˈtela]) is the capital of the autonomous community of Galicia, Spain.
The city's cathedral has been the endpoint of the Way of St. James, a leading Catholic pilgrimage route, since its origins in the ninth century. In 1985 the city's Old Town was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Santiago is the local Galician evolution of Vulgar Latin Sanctu Iacobu ...
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Santiago de Compostela (Galician: [santiˈaɣo ðe komposˈtɛla], Spanish: [sanˈtjaɣo ðe komposˈtela]) is the capital of the autonomous community of Galicia, Spain.
The city's cathedral has been the endpoint of the Way of St. James, a leading Catholic pilgrimage route, since its origins in the ninth century. In 1985 the city's Old Town was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Santiago is the local Galician evolution of Vulgar Latin Sanctu Iacobu "Saint James". As for Compostela, it comes, according to legend, from the Latin Campus Stellae (i.e. "Field of the Star"); it seems unlikely however that this could yield the modern Compostela under normal evolution from Latin to Galician-Portuguese. More probable etymologies relate the word with the Latin compositum, and local Vulgar Latin Composita Tella meaning "burial ground" as a euphemism, or simply with compositellam, "the well composed" . Other sites in Galicia share this toponym, akin to Compostilla in León province. Compostela de...
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