A holy forest on the edge of the then-known world, the sky laden with stars, the Milky Way showing the path to follow, and a venerated tomb attributed to St. James the Greater (Santiago in Spanish): all these elements gave rise to one of medieval Europe’s most fascinating phenomena. Crowds of people took to the road and walked great distances to reach this mysterious place, standing somewhere between the everyday world and the realm of the sacred. It isn’t at all surprising that the city which rose up in such a focus of fervent spirituality would be completely unique. Santiago de Compostela became a destination as important as Rome or Jerusalem. It stood at the end of the starry way leading to salvation and to mystical knowledge. It is all but incredible that such ethereal concepts came to take shape in an immense Romanesque church, in the otherworldly image of the Apostle, and in the stunning triple portal of the Pórtico de la Gloria. Centuries later, the Baroque added a new scenography with a renovated exterior for the cathedral and a set of spectacular streets and squares all around it. Santiago has a number of buildings that are famed for their elegance: the Inn of the Catholic Monarchs, the Canonry House, the Market Hall... and streets full of joyful pilgrims. Everything seems conceived to reform the sense of one world’s end and another’s beginning, and to accentuate the spire pointing to heaven, where the starry way leads.