{"id":60796,"date":"2025-09-13T22:38:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T20:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=60796"},"modified":"2025-09-25T23:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T21:36:08","slug":"the-rain-in-santiago-de-compostela-as-seen-by-a-german-photographer-and-an-andalusian-poet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/09\/13\/the-rain-in-santiago-de-compostela-as-seen-by-a-german-photographer-and-an-andalusian-poet\/","title":{"rendered":"The rain in Santiago de Compostela as seen by a German photographer and an Andalusian poet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Years ago I decided to launch this section of my blog, not only to showcase interesting places, but also as an escape.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/07\/06\/ten-beautiful-places-that-you-should-not-miss-if-you-spend-your-holidays-in-galicia\/\">Ten beautiful places that you should not miss if you spend your holidays in Galicia<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/03\/27\/the-beauty-of-galicia-the-magnificent-video-of-a-german-photographer-on-the-galician-coast\/\">'The beauty of Galicia': the magnificent video of a German photographer on the Galician coast<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, the political news is so unpleasant that it calls for a <strong>break, a rest, a moment to disconnect and breathe fresh air<\/strong>. These days, many may be surprised that I dedicate so much time to publishing on Explorando.info, but with so much pain, so much death, and so much horror, <strong>this green corner to take a break from it all is more necessary than ever<\/strong>. So let's get to it.<\/p>\n<p>I just saw <strong>a beautiful video published two years ago by German photographer and filmmaker<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@im_sercankurt\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sercan Kurt<\/a>, in which he shows us some corners of the city of Santiago de Compostela on a rainy day. <strong>In Galicia we often say that in Santiago, rain is art<\/strong>, and this video is proof of that. If I also manage to get you to take at least two minutes to breathe, I think it will have been worth publishing:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Santiago de Compostela, Galicia | Espa\u00f1a (4K Cinematic Video) #caminodesantiago #elcaminodesantiago\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3lfxWxKDax4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>In 1935, the Andalusian poet Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca wrote some beautiful verses in Galician, entitled \"Madrigal \u00e1 cibd\u00e1 de Santiago\"<\/strong> (Madrigal to the city of Santiago), which wonderfully summarize those drops of art that fall on the capital of Galicia on rainy days:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Chove en Santiago<br \/>\nmeu doce amor.<br \/>\nCamelia branca do ar<br \/>\nbrila entebrecida \u00f4 sol.<\/p>\n<p>Chove en Santiago<br \/>\nna noite escura.<br \/>\nHerbas de prata e de sono<br \/>\ncobren a valeira l\u00faa.<\/p>\n<p>Olla a choiva pol-a r\u00faa,<br \/>\nlaio de pedra e cristal.<br \/>\nOlla no vento esva\u00eddo<br \/>\nsoma e cinza do teu mar.<\/p>\n<p>Soma e cinza do teu mar,<br \/>\nSantiago, lonxe do sol.<br \/>\n\u00c1goa da ma\u00f1\u00e1n anterga<br \/>\ntrema no meu coraz\u00f3n.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here you can read <strong>the English translation:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>It's raining in Santiago,<br \/>\nmy sweet love.<br \/>\nThe white camellia of the air<br \/>\nshines darkly in the sun.<\/p>\n<p>It's raining in Santiago<br \/>\nin the dark night.<br \/>\nSilver grasses and dreams<br \/>\ncover the empty moon.<\/p>\n<p>Look at the rain in the street,<br \/>\na complaint of stone and glass.<br \/>\nLook in the blurred wind<br \/>\nat the shadow and ash of your sea.<\/p>\n<p>Shadow and ash of your sea,<br \/>\nSantiago, far from the sun.<br \/>\nWater of the ancient morning<br \/>\ntrembles in my heart.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>The Galician traditional music group Luar na Lubre published a beautiful musical version of this poem<\/strong> in their magnificent album \"Cabo do mundo\" (1999), with the magical voice of <strong>Rosa Cedr\u00f3n<\/strong> singing Lorca's verses:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Chove en Santiago\" width=\"665\" height=\"499\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wE3x4F7ztHM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Main image: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3lfxWxKDax4\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sercan Kurt<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Years ago I decided to launch this section of my blog, not only to showcase interesting places, but also as an escape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19535,11259,16885],"tags":[551,1805,549,595,550,25303,11462],"class_list":["post-60796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exploring-portada-eng","category-literature","category-populations","tag-federico-garcia-lorca","tag-galicia","tag-luar-na-lubre","tag-rosa-cedron","tag-santiago-de-compostela","tag-sercan-kurt","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60796"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}