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The Grand Staircase in San Xoan de Poio Monastery

2020; Springer International Publishing; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-3-030-47979-4_39

2661-8192

Inés Pernas Alonso,

Religious Tourism and Spaces

The architecture of monasteries can be thought about in two ways if we focus our attention on spaces other than those fundamentally dedicated to the liturgy, such as the church, the cloisters and the Chapter.There are rooms that exist as a way to organise the spaces required by the Rule of observance and these made it possible to create an architectural structure that hosted and organised the community’s life. A space to cook, a place to eat, a place to sleep, a place to meet, a place and a time to pray, a place and a time to work. The assignment of roles to specific rooms was the architectural transcription of a detailed instruction book on daily life within the monastery.The objective of this paper is to discuss an element that has an almost palatial appearance, forming a point of connection between the outside world and the abbot’s rooms. The completion of the graphic survey and its subsequent representation allow us to conclude that the type of architectural element is determined by its location within the monastic complex.