Discover the charming little square of Las Bárbaras

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Oliver Thansan
Oliver Thansan
01 March 2024 Friday 16:01
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Discover the charming little square of Las Bárbaras

* The author is part of the community of readers of La Vanguardia

In La Vanguardia Readers' Photos we invite you to discover the Bárbaras square in A Coruña today. Secluded and peaceful place in the Old City of Coruña.

In this small square, its centuries-old acacias and horse chestnuts, the simple crucifiro and the relief of the Last Judgment invite contemplation.

In this relief we see how God the Father, between the Sun and the Moon, receives the souls that the archangel weighs on the scales in view of the dragon, while Santiago protects the pilgrims.

The cloister door has a turnstile, through which the nuns of the Convent have been delivering sweets and embroidery since the 15th century…. The current Church is from the 18th century.

It was a Napoleonic barracks and suffered the Confiscation, but the Poor Clares soon returned to live there, always ready to collect the egg baskets of the bride and groom and in exchange ensure that it does not rain at their wedding...