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Casa do Cabido is a historic house in
Casa do Cabido is a historic house in Santiago de Compostela
Santiago de Compostela is the capital of the autonomous community of Galicia, in northwestern Spain. The city has its origin in the shrine of Saint James the Great, now the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, as the destination of the Way of S ...
, Province of A Coruña
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, Galicia
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** The post-Roman Kingdom of the Suebi, also called the Kingdom of Gallaecia
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, Spain
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, facing the Praza de Praterías. It was designed for urban beautification in order to decorate and match the surroundings and completed in 1758 in the baroque style.
History and characteristics
The medievalsilversmith
A silversmith is a metalworker who crafts objects from silver. The terms ''silversmith'' and ''goldsmith'' are not exactly synonyms as the techniques, training, history, and guilds are or were largely the same but the end product may vary gre ...
guilds gave name to the Praza das Praterías and to the south façade
A façade () (also written facade) is generally the front part or exterior of a building. It is a loan word from the French (), which means 'frontage' or ' face'.
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of the Cathedral: across the square, the Baroque-style Casa do Cabido was built, about three meters deep with an only scenographic function, closing one of the sides around the fountain. Designed by the architect of the Galician baroque Clemente Fernández Sarela, it dates from the year 1758. Initially it was the seat of the Cathedral Council, but it became private property in the mid-nineteenth century.
This way Casa do Cabido, in front of the Cathedral, had a new fake façade strictly following the local architectural order
An order in architecture is a certain assemblage of parts subject to uniform established proportions, regulated by the office that each part has to perform.
Coming down to the present from Ancient Greek and Ancient Roman civilization, the arch ...
of the early 18th century, the style of plates typical of the Baroque in Compostela.
It inspired Valle-Inclán the story of ''My Sister Antonia'', just like the fountain (Fonte dos Cabalos) inspired Federico García Lorca
Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca (5 June 1898 – 19 August 1936), known as Federico García Lorca ( ), was a Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director. García Lorca achieved international recognition as an emblemat ...
for the ''Dance of the Moon'' poem in Santiago. In the year 2005, the film '' The Carpenter's Pencil'' was shot on it.
References
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