The visit to the Monastery continues. (Click Here to see Part 1 of the visit) We are back in the porter´s lodge. We have just seen the Cloister called De las Procesiones, the Church and part of the Museum of the Monastery.
We gain access from this point to the Cloister called Del Crucero (Stone Cross) or De Los Naranjos (Orange Trees)
The cloister was built in 1747 and is baroque. It is the most visited part of the Monastery because in it is located the Mosaic ‘El Camino de Santiago’ designed by the Czech artist Antoine Machourek. The Mosaic takes up the cloister naves in its entirety.
The other two rooms of the Museum of the Monastery are also situated in the Cloister.
Monastery houses the Machourek Museum, one hundred and fifty works of the Czech artist, also works by the students of the Stonemasons School, which was founded in The Monastery (former refectory).
We highlight in other rooms: sacred choir books, the choir chair, statue of Pedro Nolasco (founder of the Mercedarian Order), Mercedarian habits and shield, among many other religious works of art.
The Library of the Monastery has over 100000 volumes, ancient books, rare books, books on Galicia, art, law, theology, Philosophy.
This is one of the two rooms of the Museum.
This is the other room.
Mosaic El Camino de Santiago by Antoine Machourek
The Mosaic was designed by the Czech artist Antoine Machourek. It was made by the ‘Escuela de Mosaicos’ (Mosaic School) of the Monastery (1989-1992). 2´60 metres height, 80 m. length, 200 square metres. It has about 5000 tesserae (small pieces of marble) per square metre, one million of them in total.
It depicts The French Route and contains cities and monuments of France and Spain. Pilgrims are historical figures with their noble coats of arms. A good direction (Wind Rose), fauna and signs of the zodiac they accompany and guide us towards the dreamed goal (Compostela).
The visit to the Monastery of Poio ends here. We hope you enjoyed it.
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