“It has been a crazy summer: we have had tourists from the most diverse countries in the world, and they keep coming. We have even sold out of the book on the Ourense Cathedral, and many of the souvenirs,” explain the guides to the Ourense cathedral, which, in the absence of official data, have confirmed what the websites already say: that it is the most visited monument by tourists passing through the city.
Virginia, one of the guides who welcomes visitors to the cathedral / Iñaki Osorio
“We have had, and still have, people from Canada to Australia, many of them passing through on their way to Santiago, many tourists from the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, many French and Portuguese, Italians from the United Kingdom, many visitors from Belgium, the list of countries is very long,” explain Virginia and Ángeles, two of the guides, who welcome tourists at the visitor reception desk of the cathedral and give guided tours. For them it has been a “crazy” summer in the most optimistic sense of the word.
The success of this great unknown that is the Ourense seo is such that Some of the souvenirs on sale have sold out with pictures or children’s books and even the book about the cathedral, written by the former diocesan archivist Miguel Ángel González.
This weekend a group of more than fifty travelers arrived from Torres Vedra, in Lisbon, to begin a guided tour to see the interior of a cathedral “in which We are even incorporating new routes, apart from those on the roofs, such as night visits” they explain.
Something that already happened on Christmas Eve at 9:00 p.m., “with a lot of people, we repeated it on July 25 and the night visit from the roof of the cathedral is spectacular,” the guides indicate.
“We are constantly innovating, and we have, for example, a route of the cathedral’s tombs, as there are tombs from the 13th to the 19th century. It is a very important catalogue of funerary sculpture; in fact, the one on the main altar, that of the unknown bishop, is the most important Gothic tomb in Galicia, dating from 1321.” A single cathedral and a thousand unknown journeys inside it. Tourists know where the magic lies.
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