Rent accommodation in Santiago de Compostela

The University of Santiago de Compostela (in Galician and officially University of Santiago de Compostela - USC) is a public university based in Santiago de Compostela, Galicia (Spain), and campus in Santiago de Compostela and Lugo.
It was founded in 1495 by Lope Gómez de Marzoa and is, with its more than 500 years, the longest tradition university in Galicia, and one of the oldest in the world.
Since its inception, the University enjoyed an important cultural and economic impulse under the archbishopric of Alonso III de Fonseca, educated man, patron and friend of Erasmus of Rotterdam. Thus, since the beginning of the 16th century, the University will have several University Colleges where studies in Theology, Grammar and Art will be taught, a training offer that will soon be completed with the careers of Law and Medicine.
The USC will have great importance during the Enlightenment period, so King Carlos III will distinguish this University with the title of Royal and add the Crown symbol that, along with the weapons of Castile, Leon and Galicia, and the Emblems of the founders of the institution, make up the blazon of the University. Soon after, the students set an example of patriotism by forming the famous Literary Battalion that fought against the French during the Spanish War of Independence.
In the twentieth century we witness a spectacular growth in the number of students and degrees offered, so that new university faculties and campuses arise, creating two new institutions (the University of Vigo and the University of La Coruña) that will complement the educational offer from the Capitoline University.
The University is currently finalizing the adaptation to the EHEA and offers a large number of bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in all areas of knowledge.
In 2009, the USC has been recognized for its Campus Vida project as a Campus of International Excellence by the Ministry of Education, a distinction that places it among the 9 best universities in the country. The goal of the university in the short term is to become one of the 100 best biosanitary campuses in the European Union.
The Library of the University of Santiago de Compostela, with 1,227,796 volumes, is the fifth largest university library in Spain after the Library of the Complutense University of Madrid and the libraries of the University of Barcelona, ​​the University of Seville and the University from Valencia. On the other hand, it has an online repository, where you can consult books, magazines, Final Degree Projects (TFG), Master's Degree Final Projects (TFM), thesis ... And PreLo an online book lending platform, which works just like a physical library but with PDF and ebook documents.

Rajoy Palace (in Galician, Pazo de Raxoi) is a building of Santiago de Compostela that is located in the Plaza del Obradoiro. It is the seat of the City Council.
It is a neoclassical construction, its construction was ordered by the Archbishop of Santiago, Bartolomé Rajoy Losada, in 1766 with the purpose of serving as a seminar for confessors. The French engineer Carlos Lemaur was responsible for the work. On its cover you can see a representation of the battle of Clavijo and a sculpture of the apostle Santiago.
The Palace is located in the western part of the Plaza del Obradoiro, which closes on that side, facing the main facade of the Cathedral of Santiago. To his right is the Colegio de San Jerónimo, which today serves as the headquarters of the Rector of the University of Santiago; to the left of the palace is the Royal Hospital of the Catholic Monarchs, now Hostal.
In 2015, in the approval by Unesco of the extension of the Way of Saint James in Spain to «Ways of Saint James of Compostela: French Way and Ways of Northern Spain», Spain sent as documentation a «Retrospective Inventory - Associated Elements» (Retrospective Inventory - Associated Components) in which No. 912 contains the Rajoy family palace.

The situation of Santiago de Compostela in the northwestern end of the Iberian Peninsula, and that of the latter in the southwestern part of Europe, have made that over the centuries, the populous pilgrimages to the city of the Apostle have forged a rich artistic and cultural heritage throughout the entire Spanish geography, enriched in many cases by a natural environment of extraordinary landscape and ecological value.
The state of conservation, use and study of each of the historically known routes varies notably among all of them, although there is a general predisposition to make them a cultural, tourist, sports and religious instrument that contributes to the maintenance, restoration and enrichment of the places through which the different routes run.
It is also a living road to which other routes are added that the new and modern pilgrims are forging each year, taking advantage of the historical paths to which they add new routes of unique charm.
Over the centuries, these religious and commercial routes have come to further enrich the artistic and cultural heritage of these lands, in which a long history forged by the many civilizations that have populated them, is solely responsible for its being one of the richest and most varied on the planet.
In 1993 it was included by Unesco in the World Heritage of Humanity, although not all routes have been included in the list of goods.

The Workshop Square (in Galician: Praza do Obradoiro) is the main and most famous of the Galician capital, Santiago de Compostela. In her they emphasize emblematic buildings like the Palace of Rajoy, the Hostel of the Catholic Monarchs, the school of San Jerónimo or the own Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela.

The Museum of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela is an institution that hosts various artistic and archaeological works, owned by the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, which range from Roman times to the present. The museum is located in various rooms within the cathedral complex. It was founded in 1930.

The metropolitan area of Santiago de Compostela is located in the central-southern area of the Galician province of La Coruña (Spain). It includes the region of Santiago and the municipalities of Oroso, El Pino and Trazo. Its population exceeds 180,000 inhabitants.

The San Jerónimo school (in Galician, Colexio de San Xerome), is an old school of Santiago de Compostela (Galicia, Spain), located on the southern side of the Plaza del Obradoiro, closing it on that side. It is also called the College of Artists. Since the 1980s it houses the Rectorate of the University of Santiago.
In 2015, in the approval by Unesco of the extension of the Way of Saint James in Spain to «Ways of Saint James of Compostela: French Way and Ways of Northern Spain», Spain sent as documentation a «Retrospective Inventory - Associated Elements» (Retrospective Inventory - Associated Components) in which No. 937 contains the School of San Jerónimo - Rector.

The Catholic Monarchs hospital, usually called the hotel / hostel of the Catholic Monarchs (in Galician, Hostal dos Reis Católicos), and also historically known as the Royal Hospital of Santiago or Santiago de Compostela, is a Plateresque-style building erected by order of the Catholic Monarchs, after their visit to Santiago de Compostela, to provide shelter to those who required medical assistance at the end of the Camino. It was designed and built by the royal architect Enrique Egas. It is currently a hotel belonging to the network of National Tourism Paradores of the Kingdom of Spain that serves pilgrims and visitors to the city of Santiago, and is known as Parador de Santiago and, today, as Parador Museo Santiago.
In 2015, in the approval by Unesco of the extension of the Way of Saint James in Spain to «Ways of Saint James of Compostela: French Way and Ways of Northern Spain», Spain sent as documentation a «Retrospective Inventory - Associated Elements» (Retrospective Inventory - Associated Components) in which No. 847 contains the chapel of the Grand Hospital of the Catholic Monarchs.

The Ánxel Casal Library is the public library of the city of Santiago de Compostela. Located in a new building, with an area of ​​5800 m2, as of 2017 it has more than 140000 copies in its collection (in addition to more than 1000 magazine titles), the majority in free access and a total of 418 reading posts.
It is one of the "nodal libraries" of the 6 that are integrated in the Network of Libraries of Galicia
The name of the library is due to Ánxel Casal Gosenxe, former mayor of the city and founder of Editorial Nós. It is established through an order dated September 8, 2008 from the Ministry of Culture and Sports ]

The University Historical Archive (University Historical Archives in Galician) is the institution that is responsible for the management, conservation and dissemination of the academic and administrative documentation generated by the University of Santiago de Compostela.

The pazo do Espiño is a building located in Santiago de Compostela of modernist architecture erected between 1910 and 1915 by Jesús López de Rego, under the order of Ramón Gutiérrez de la Peña Quiroga.

The Museum of Pilgrimages and Santiago is a museum complex created in Santiago de Compostela in 1951 and dedicated to the cultural event of the pilgrimage, in the context of the Camino de Santiago, the cathedral and the Jacobean phenomenon of the tomb of the apostle Santiago the Elder . It was declared a Site of Cultural Interest in 1985. Just active until 1996, in 2012 it expanded its facilities, until then limited to the space of the Gothic House, integrating as a whole the old building of the Bank of Spain in Platería Square and the House of Cabildo

The Institute of Heritage Sciences (Incipit) is a Spanish research center under the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) within its area of ​​Humanities and Social Sciences. It is dedicated to the study of cultural heritage as a scientific problem, including its formation and origin, its meaning and meaning, its management, conservation and protection problems, its social and public use, and its functions and potential for economic and sociocultural development.
Its headquarters are located in Santiago de Compostela, on the Campus Life of the University of Santiago de Compostela. Since April 2019, it is planned to relocate to the Fontán Building of the City of Culture of Galicia, also in Santiago de Compostela.