José Luis Rodríguez Cid
Deputy Mayor of Ourense between 1995 and 2007, he devoted his career to the politics of his city, charged with the responsibilities of Urban Planning and Infrastructures. Linked to civic associationism, he was one of the founder members of Cultural Society Albor, one of the oldest in Ourense. Since 2007 he is the president of the Association of Friends of the Silver Way of Ourense, an organization born in 1999 which has played a key role in the study and dissemination of the pilgrimage routes to Santiago going through Ourense.
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Baths & Pilgrimages - Jose Luis Rodriguez cid |
Medieval phenomena of pilgrimages had contributed to built an exception on the classic history of thermal tradition. Although it's commonly believed these practices were damned by Catholic Church, those baths and hot springs located across the great European pilgrimage ways were protected by the clergy as places for pilgrim's rest and hygiene, preventing diseases like the Plague from spreading..Thats the case of Ourense, a city right before Santiago de Compostela in the Mozarabic Way where pilgrims came to sample its hot waters.Several written documents account for that, like the travel diary priest Bernardo de Aldrete wrote in 17th Century describing the thermal fountain of As Burgas.
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