Land- and Skyscapes of the Camino de Santiago: An Astronomy and World Heritage Sustainable Approach
| Autor: | Maitane Urrutia-Aparicio, Juan A. Belmonte, Antonio César González-García |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Agencia Estatal de Investigación (España), Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España), European Commission, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España) |
| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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Church orientation Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment Romanesque architecture Geography Planning and Development Cultural astronomy cultural astronomy church orientation camino de santiago romanesque architecture easter equinox iberian peninsula Equinox Management Monitoring Policy and Law Camino de santiago Iberian Peninsula |
| Zdroj: | Sustainability; Volume 14; Issue 5; Pages: 3047 Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC instname |
| ISSN: | 2071-1050 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/su14053047 |
| Popis: | The Romanesque churches dotted along the Way of Saint James are magnificent examples of cultural heritage, and their analysis from the perspective of cultural astronomy may, in an unobtrusive manner, provide information of hitherto unexplored facets of these treasures. This study aims to examine the pilgrimage road as a communication channel and to seek possible regional variations in the Christian kingdoms of Leon, Castile, Navarre and Aragon. Seen as a whole, the Romanesque churches of our sample present two main orientation patterns: towards either the ecclesiastical and astronomical equinox or to certain Easter Sunday celestial phenomena. However, equinoctial orientations are present only in Leon and Navarre, while Easter appears with more or less significance in every kingdom. The Camino de Santiago constitutes a sacred landscape with a common heritage, with a certain degree of cultural diversity that depends on the territory. These subtle differences have surfaced only in light of archaeoastronomical investigations. This research was funded by the State Research Agency (AEI), the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (MICIU), and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) under grants with references AYA2015-66787-P ‘Orientatio ad Sidera IV’, PID2020-115940GB-C21, PID2020-115940GB-C22 ’Orientatio ad Sidera V’ and under the internal IAC project P310793 ‘Arqueoastronomía’ and it is part of the project EIN2020-112463, funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100022033 and by the European Union “NextGenerationEU”/PRTR”. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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