Car Rental Santiago De Compostela Airport

Santiago de Compostela is the capital of the autonomous community of Galicia in the heart of the Kingdom of Spain with 92,000 inhabitants on an area of 223 km2. In recent years, the village, especially as the shrine and pilgrimage site on the Pilgrim's way, which ends here, a new Renaissance experiences. Santiago is the term for Saint Jacob, it speculates in Compostela that it of campus stellae - Sternfeld comes. Because Santiago de Compostela was already settled in ancient times by the Romans, also the interpretation is possible compostum for cemetery.

Since the early ninth century pilgrimage Christians from all over the world to Santiago de Compostela, as here the tomb of Saint James, one of the twelve disciples of Jesus, discovered. According to the legend of the Apostle's body reached the Spanish coast in a boat, after James in Palestine was to have been beheaded. Today, the alleged relics of the holy man is buried in the impressive cathedral of Santiago de Compostela. Already about 1077 began with the construction of the imposing church. Today it combines the architectural styles of various eras, ranging from Romanesque elements, a neoclassical north façade and Gothic cloisters and a Baroque West Portal.

In addition to his sacred works, de Santiago stands out in particular by its wonderful old town, which was included in the UNESCO World Heritage together with the Cathedral and the Pilgrim's way. Here is Rua de Franco primarily with its excellent restaurants of Galician cuisine, to name a few.

The scallop shell of the pilgrims that marks the way is always omnipresent in Santiago de Compostela. Who wants to explore it on foot not necessarily takes the best a car.