Compostela Theme Park
Personal Vision of a Holy City
The Disneyworld of the peninsular northwest opens its doors to all the visitors that seek adventure with history.
Visit our museum of stone, take a picture of yourself with exquisite edible dinosaurs (spider crabs, lobsters, scallops, etc), embrace the eternal mercy, chat in 15 languages without leaving a street where the fragrances of Galician wine speeds up comprehension… Visitors pass the time, eat, admire, shop, enjoy… They are in the first marketing campaign of Santiago’s history. One fine day, someone happened to say that in Santiago, St. James the Apostle was buried and see what he started: millions of visitors finding themselves by traveling 100 KM (the best psychologist is the Way of Santiago), ecumenical-pastoral encounters in which condoms are used up until the Milky Way points to the holy route with the sponsorship of the Coca-Cola.
One of the cities in which more is received and given by the second is Santiago, a jewel of stone where we remain fascinated by seeing just a third of its wealth. And if the curates opened all the churches, tourists would stay in the city longer, hoteliers and restaurateurs would be happier, more empanadas would be sold more, and Mass would be more uplifting.
Walking through this mythical land of stone will show us many surprises. This is the city where Galician witches and computers blend together in houses from the 16th century. An adventure in which the devil stands his full width and in his urban landscape, the student’s folder substitutes in winter for the pilgrim’s rope sandal in summer. A city baptized by a transformer who, with the same facility, comes back to life to kill Moors with a shell in the forehead to restore the unity of the towns.
And if all this were not enough, now, as soon as 2005, they are going to build us a replica of the city, "The City of Culture". And to bring this contemporary photocopy of Santiago to life, we have enlisted a counterpart of Master Mateo in Peter Eisenman.
What is doubtless after all this is that Compostela is a miracle.
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