From Sacred Place to Monumental Space: Mobility Along the Way to St. James

González, Rubén Camilo Lois; Fernández, Belén María Castro; López, Lucrezia

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“…Through the visual cinematographic discourse, we are able to access information pertaining to the heritage offering of the places along the Way (Figures 9-12). In this case, the heritage found along the route is an attraction factor and is well valued by the pilgrims [88][89][90]. Visiting the heritage offerings of the cities along the pilgrimage route has become a contemporary practice for the Way, as it enriches the experience of and empathy with the territory being explored [91].…”

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“…Tourism is a modern metamorphosis of travel and pilgrimage [86,87]. This secularization has changed its symbolic meaning, transforming places into tourist locations [80,88,90]. The growing dimension of contemporary tourism, its characteristics and the transversal dimension of its industry are the main driving forces that have led the search for new tourism approaches.…”

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Sustainable Tourism: A Hidden Theory of the Cinematic Image? A Theoretical and Visual Analysis of the Way of St. James

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The attractiveness of a tourist destination is derived from multiple material and immaterial elements. Cinema is both a tourist communication channel and provides a target market for a destination. Many regions offer a great variety of potential locations desirable for their scenic beauty and artistic and monumental heritage. The main aim of this paper is to analyze the concept of sustainable tourism as a pillar of the contemporary cinematic discourse on pilgrimage routes, combining theoretical and empirical methodologies. It begins by analyzing how, given their power, images are narrative instruments that assume a true performative value of geographical reality. The research then focuses on the cinematographic space and visual cinematographic discourse. The case study is sustainable tourism along the Way of St. James (Spain). The material is a corpus of two documentary films. Their moviescapes highlight the presence of a sustainable filmic theorem within a potential cinematic genre—pilgrimage movies. Thus, this study contributes to the investigation of how sustainable pilgrimage tourism practices are used in cinematic production as a possible movie theorem. It presents a conclusive critical evaluation of the role and message of these moviescapes.

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Sustainable Tourism: A Hidden Theory of the Cinematic Image? A Theoretical and Visual Analysis of the Way of St. James

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“…This change also entails a new idea of spirituality that continues to distance itself from the single religious meaning (Blom et al 2016;Dewsbury and Cloke 2009;Farias and Lalljee 2008;Lopez et al 2017a). Spirituality remains one of the main motivations people have for taking The Way and visiting Santiago, although today it is interpreted as a rediscovery of one's self, a balanced relationship with nature, and a different way of experiencing social life, time, and one's scenic surroundings (CETUR andSA Xacobeo 2007-2010;Lois González et al 2016;Santos Solla and González 2011). Here is where the renewed importance of knowledge of historical and cultural territory comes into play (CETUR andSA Xacobeo 2007-2010;Santos Solla and González 2011).…”

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“…In this context, in which the figure of St. James became the image of the Catholic bulwark against the communist and liberal forces, the regime, supported by the Diocese of Compostela, committed itself to recovering the historic centre of Santiago and many of its monuments (Castro Fernández 2007Fernández , 2010Fernández , 2013Castro Fernández and González 2006;Lois González et al 2016). With these architectural interventions and restoration of monuments, the idea was to create a setting of traditional Christian retreat (even returning to Medieval values), in a context where Catholicism was the official religion of the Dictatorship, and the calendar, rites, and mandates were followed as the letter of the law.…”

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Who Is Interested in Developing the Way of Saint James? The Pilgrimage from Faith to Tourism

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The Way of St. James in Spain is the main European pilgrimage route. Currently, it is a cultural, tourist, monumental, spiritual, and sports route. For this reason, the paper aims to discuss the concept of the “Polysemy of The Way”, by analysing how the new pilgrims’ motivations are creating an inclusive and complex space, which is making a shift from religious space to a multifaceted tourism reality. We study the characterisation and interaction of the new actors involved in its development, maintenance and promotion. As a result, its original “space of faith” is now a “live heritage space”, thanks to the rehabilitation of routes, monuments, and landscapes. The combination of these motivational and spatial transformations enhances the factors of post-secular pilgrimage, such as slow mobility, the liminality and the sense of community, which the same actors assume as priorities for territorial management.

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“…Para algunos el Camino sigue siendo esencialmente una ruta religiosa, pero para la mayoría las motivaciones espirituales, paisajísticas, patrimoniales o de simple gusto por retornar a la movilidad lenta constituyen el impulso fundamental para dirigirse a Santiago (Maddrell, 2013;Santos Solla y Pena, 2014). Como se ha subrayado en varios trabajos recientes, el desplazamiento a pie durante varias jornadas, enlaza con varios atributos de la cultura actual: la noción de que un ejercicio continuado es una práctica saludable, que permite relacionarse con otros (la idea de comunitas), contemplar el paisaje en toda su dimensión, a partir de un desplazamiento lento, y reencontrarse con uno mismo (Frey, 1998;Coleman y Eade, 2004;Lois González, Castro Fernández y Lopez, 2015) Para que este proceso de recuperación, o invención contemporánea, del Camino tuviese lugar se han debido combinar una serie de factores de origen diverso, tanto institucionales como populares, que justifican este éxito de revitalización de una vieja ruta medieval. Los primeros intentos de recuperación se dieron en época franquista, también con esta doble lectura, pues por un lado el régimen utilizó la restauración de monumentos del Camino en su estrategia propagandística de reivindicar la memoria católica y conservadora de la España del momento (Castro Fernández, 2010), y por otro lado en 1948-1949 se publicó el monumental libro (en tres volúmenes), Las peregrinaciones a Santiago de Compostela de los estudiosos Vázquez de Parga, Lacarra y Uría (1948/49).…”

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The sea-breeze (SB) is an important source of summertime precipitation in North Carolina (NC, southeast United States). However, not all SB events produce precipitation. A climatology of wet and dry SB events in NC is used to investigate the conditions that are conducive to precipitation associated with the sea breeze.Radar imagery was used to detect 88 SB events that occurred along the NC coast between MaySeptember of 2009-2012. The majority (85%) of SB events occurred during offshore flow (53%) or during flow that was parallel to the coast (22%). SB events were separated into dry (53%) and wet (47%) events and differences in the dynamic and thermodynamic parameters of the environment in which they formed were analyzed. Significant differences in dynamic and thermodynamic conditions were found. SB dry events occurred under stronger winds (6.00 ± 2.36 ms -1 ) than SB wet events (4.02 ± 2.16 ms -1 ). Moreover, during SB wet events larger values of convective available potential energy and lower values of convective inhibition were present, conditions that favor precipitation. Overall, the SB wet events accounted for 20-30% of the May-September precipitation along the NC coastal region. The position of the North Atlantic Subtropical High (NASH) controls both moisture availability and winds along the NC coast, thus providing a synoptic-scale control mechanism for SB precipitation. In particular, it was shown that when the NASH western ridge is located along the southeast coast of the United States, it causes a moist southwesterly flow along the NC coast that may favor the occurrence of SB wet events.Keywords: Sea breeze; precipitation; North Carolina; North Atlantic Subtropical High; wind direction; wind speed. N.T., Nieto Ferreira, R. Rickenbach, T.M., Nissenbaum, M.R. and McAuliffe J.D. Investigaciones Geográficas, nº 68, pp. 09 -25. ResumenLa brisa marina (BM) es una importante fuente de precipitación de verano en Carolina del Norte (NC en su sigla en inglés), sudeste de Estados Unidos. Sin embargo, no todos los eventos de BM producen precipitación. En este trabajo se utiliza una climatología de eventos de BM lluviosos y secos en NC para investigar las condiciones que conducen a la precipitación.Se utilizaron imágenes de radar para detectar 88 eventos de BM ocurridos a lo largo de la costa NC entre mayo y septiembre de 2009 a 2012. La mayoría (85%) de los eventos de BM ocurrieron durante períodos de viento hacia el mar (53%) o viento paralelo a la costa (22%). Los eventos BM se separaron en eventos secos (53%) y lluviosos (47%) y se analizaron las diferencias en los parámetros dinámicos y termodinámicos del entorno en el que se formaron. Se encontraron diferencias significativas en las condiciones dinámicas y termodinámicas. Eventos de BM secos ocurrieron bajo vientos más fuertes (6,00 ± 2,36 ms-1) que los eventos de BM lluviosos (4,02 ± 2,16 ms-1). Las BM lluviosas ocurrieron bajo valores de energía potencial convectiva disponible más altos y valores del parámetro de inhibición convectiva más bajos,...

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From Sacred Place to Monumental Space: Mobility Along the Way to St. James

Cited by 31 publications

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Sustainable Tourism: A Hidden Theory of the Cinematic Image? A Theoretical and Visual Analysis of the Way of St. James

Sustainable Tourism: A Hidden Theory of the Cinematic Image? A Theoretical and Visual Analysis of the Way of St. James

Who Is Interested in Developing the Way of Saint James? The Pilgrimage from Faith to Tourism

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