Boente
| Arzúa municipality: Boente | |||
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| Autonomous Community : | Galicia | ||
| Province : | A Coruña | ||
| Comarca : | Interior | ||
| Coordinates | 42 ° 55 ′ N , 8 ° 5 ′ W | ||
| Height : | 400 msnm | ||
| Residents : | 137 (2011) INE | ||
| Area code: | 15006030000 | ||
Boente is a place on the Way of St. James in the province of A Coruña in the autonomous region of Galicia in Spain . Administratively it is dependent on Arzúa , other districts are Boente de Arriba (north) and Boente de Abaixo (south).
The parish church (Iglesia de Santiago Apostol) is dedicated to the Apostle Jacob .
Bravo Lozano suspects whether the election of the church patron and the mention by Aimeric Picaud in Jacob's book , that Boente must have been an important place on Galician soil for the pilgrimage to St. James .
Sights are the parish church with a beautiful depiction of Jacob in a sitting position (apostol sedente) and the restored Saleta fountain with a wayside cross (cruceiro).
literature
- Míllan Bravo Lozano: Practical pilgrim guide. The Camino de Santiago. Editorial Everest, Léon 1994, ISBN 84-241-3835-X .
- Klaus Herbers : The Way of St. James: With a medieval pilgrim guide on the way to Santiago de Compostela , Tübingen, 1986, ISBN 3-87808-312-2 .
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