Xunta de Galicia This Tuesday he presented his agreement with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon and Custody of the Holy Land Society of Jerusalem to view in City of Culture Compostela between March and August 2024 An artistic treasure never seen before in Spain From the Terra Sancta Museum. The only place where this series of works, which has been exhibited in the capital of Portugal so far and was previously seen in Europe partially in Versailles in 2011, will be seen in Spain in 2024, will be the capital of Galicia. Another one of the headquarters that will arrive on dates to be determined is
Exhibition to be seen Santiago includes Valuable items such as chalices, codices, crucifixes, crucifixes, or valuable liturgical fabrics donated to Jerusalem by various European monarchies over the last five centuries. You will have free entrance to the Gaiás museum mentioned above.
It will be based on this Gaias Center Museum It will have “special” security conditions, as sources in Cidade da Cultura detailed in response to questions from EL CORREO GALLEGO of the Prensa Ibérica group.
This exhibition, featuring the artistic treasure of the Terra Sancta Museum in Jerusalem, confirms the important connection between the two artists. Major pilgrimage centers of Christianity What is the aforementioned city and Compostela like? Its content augments the content featured on Portgal today with materials provided via email.l Pilgrimage Museum Other pieces come from the capital of Galicia, from the archives of the San Francisco monastery in Santiago, from the Compostela monastery of Santa Clara or from the Massó Museum in Bueu and from Mondoñedo.
António Filipe Pimentel, director of the Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon (most of this exhibition is open until February 26, entrance fee 10 euros); Franciscan Stéphane Milovich, Director of Cultural Heritage of the Custodian of the Holy Land; And Roman Rodríguez, Minister of Culture We signed this cooperation agreement that will allow this important artistic heritage to be seen in Santiago, which, in the words of the Xunta representative, “will be one of the biggest exhibitions of 2024.”
Rodríguez frames this initiative with the government’s commitment to create a cultural offer ahead of the next Xacobeo Year celebrations in 2027 “because this celebration represents emotional wealth for Galicia, but also economic wealth for Santiago and all of Galicia,” Rodríguez said. . to the engine Path Vehicles for the Galicia tourism industry. In fact, the Sacred Way will break the 2022 pilgrimage record before the end of this year. According to data from a month ago, more than 436,000 have already been delivered compositions.
The basis of the exhibition “Royal treasures, masterpieces” Holy Land Museum“It was created with gifts from different European Catholic monarchies. Philip II, Louis XIV (France), João V (Portugal), Carlo VII (Naples) or María Theresa of Austria.
As the organizers explain, this collection includes valuable pieces such as chalices, codices, metalwork or precious liturgical fabrics, crucifixes or baldachins donated to Jerusalem by many European monarchies over the last five centuries, especially the House of Bourbon. It will be based on this Gaias Center Museum and will have “special” security conditions, as Cidade da Cultura sources detailed when asked by EL CORREO GALLEGO.
This exhibition chronicles the artistic treasure of the Terra Sancta Museum in Jerusalem, claims “The important connection between the two great pilgrimage centers of Christianity that city and what Santiago is like,” they reiterated their introduction at a press conference held in Cidade da Cultura this morning.