{{Short description|Square in Santiago de Compostela, Spain}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2023}} {{Infobox street | name = Plaza de la Quintana | native_name = {{native name|gl|Praza da Quintana}} | namesake = | image = Santiago de compostela - panoramio (20).jpg | image_size = | caption = View of the plaza | postal_code = | image_map = | location = Santiago de Compostela, Spain | maint = | map_type = | map_caption = | coordinates = {{Coord|42|52|50|N|08|32|37|W|source:wikidata|display=title, inline}} | designer = | completion_date = 1611 | type = Plaza }} '''Quintana Square''' (''Spanish: Plaza de la Quintana; Galician: Praza da Quintana'') is the main square of Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain. It is formed by the meeting of the south facade of Santiago de Compostela Cathedral, {{ill|Casa da Parra|pt}}, Monastery of Saint Pelagius of Antealtares and {{ill|Casa da Conga|gl}}.
==History== A "quintana" is a street in a Roman camp, that separates the fifth and sixth maniples and contains the marketplace. The area of Quintana Square was once a cemetery.<ref name="Laforga">{{Cite web |last=Diego |first=Laforga Marcos |date=2013 |title=Plaza de la Quintana |url= http://musmon.com/en/content/64/en/CatedralDeSantiagoDeCompostela/31 |access-date=22 March 2022 |website=MUSeum and Monuments}}</ref> The square was built around 1611, following the decision of the Mayor of Compostela to convert the medieval cemetery known as Quintana de Mortos into a public square.<ref name="cainstitute">{{Cite book |url=https://issuu.com/cainstitute/docs/the_public_space_santiagodecomposte/10 |chapter=Quintana Square |date=12 June 2015 |title=THE PUBLIC SPACE {{!}}Santiago de Compostela |publisher=Fundacion Compostela Arquitectura |page=10}}</ref> This is now the "Quintana de Mortos" (English: Quintana of the dead) on the lower level of the square.<ref name="ArtNatura" /> The cemetery's remains were first moved to the Convent of San Domingos de Bonaval and then to {{ill|Boisaca cemetery|gl|Cementerio de Boisaca}}.<ref name="ArtNatura" /> Masters Francisco Fernández de Araújo and {{ill|José de la Peña de Toro|gl}}<ref name="BONET">{{Cite book |last=Bonet Correa |first=Antonio |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EbNTUncto-IC&dq=%22Jos%C3%A9+de+la+Pe%C3%B1a+de+Toro%22+%221676%22&pg=PA291 |title=La arquitectura en Galicia durante el siglo XVII |date=1984 |publisher=Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", CSIC |isbn=84-00-02646-2 |language=es |author-link=Antonio Bonet Correa}}</ref> were commissioned by the Santiago de Compostela Cathedral's canon {{ill|José Vega y Verdugo|gl}}.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Folgar |first=María del Carmen |chapter=José Vega y Verdugo |date=1974 |title={{ill|Gran Enciclopedia Galega|qid= Q12390152}} |volume=30|publisher=Silverio Cañada }}</ref> At the same time, the construction closed the eastern facade of the cathedral with a running wall, like a screen, that covered the main and the apse chapels.<ref name="ArtNatura">{{Cite web |date=8 June 2018 |title=The Plaza de la Quintana and its most outstanding buildings |url=https://www.artnaturagalicia.com/en/blog/la-plaza-de-la-quintana-y-sus-edificios-mas-destacables |access-date=7 June 2023 |website=ArtNatura}}</ref>
==Description== The plaza is divided by a staircase, which separates the so-called "Quintana de Vivos" (English: Quintana of the living) at the higher level from the "Quintana de Mortos" on the level below.<ref name="ArtNatura" />
During a Jacobean Holy Year (years when Saint James' Day, 25 July, falls on a Sunday), pilgrims cross the plaza to enter the basilica through the Holy Door to efarn a plenary indulgence granted by Pope Alexander III in his 1179 bull, ''Regis aeterni''.<ref name="Correos">{{cite web |title=When is the next Holy Year? |url=https://www.elcaminoconcorreos.com/en/blog/when-is-the-next-holy-year |website=El Camino con Correos |date=29 December 2022 |access-date=30 April 2023 |archive-date=28 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230428161650/https://www.elcaminoconcorreos.com/en/blog/when-is-the-next-holy-year |url-status=live }}</ref>
It is a widely used public space for events: gatherings for Galician Literature Day, National Day of Galicia, demonstrations or commemorations (''i.e.'', Plataforma Nunca Máis. Artists such as Susana Seivane use the space for musical concerts and performances.<ref name="ArtNatura"/> In the "canzorros" at the top of {{ill|Casa da Parra|pt}} there is a CRTVG webcam, that updates its image every two seconds and covers approximately a 90º viewing angle of the plaza.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.crtvg.es/crtvg/camaras-web/praza-da-quintana | title = Praza da Quintana web cam | work = crtvg.es}}</ref>
==Literary Battalion== thumb|The plaque in Quintana Plaza {{main|Literary Battalion}} A plaque in the plaza commemorates the work of the Literary Battalion during the Spanish War of Independence with the inscription:<ref>{{cite book| last = Tettamancy Gastón | first = Francisco | title= Galos y Britanos, Batallón Literario de Santiago | trans-title = Gauls and Britons, Literary Battalion of Santiago | language = es | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=s2BbAAAAcAAJ | year = 1911| publisher = Impr. y fotograbado de Ferrer }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Gallaecia fulget: cinco séculos de historia universitaria |year=1995 |isbn=9788481213041 |publisher=Universidade de Santiago de Compostela |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A_e90mnTYugC&pg=PA269 |page=269}}</ref>
:A LOS HEROES DEL BATALLON LITERARIO DE 1808 :LOS ESCOLARES COMPOSTELANOS DE 1896 Y LOS AYUNTAMIENTOS DE 1822 1865 Y 1896
:(To the heroes of the Literary Battalion of 1808 :The Compostela scholars of 1896 and the city councils of 1822 1865 and 1896)
== See also == * {{ill|Praza de Cervantes|gl}} * {{ill|Praza do Paraíso|gl}} * Plaza del Obradoiro * Berenguela tower
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== External links == {{commons category|Quintana square}} * [http://www.crtvg.es/crtvg/camaras-web/praza-da-quintana Praza da Quintana web cam] *{{cite news| url = https://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/01/magazine/santiago-s-golden-legend.html| title = Santiago's Golden Legend | work = New York Times| date = 1 October 1989 | first= Rachel | last = Billington}}
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