Art, its history and its multiplicity of styles and forms, always constitutes a fascinating universe, in which to let oneself be carried away voluntarily and to explore endless interesting possibilities.

Spain, due to its historical trajectory, as a precursor to the Crusades and as the owner, in addition, of one of the largest pilgrimage routes, the Saint Jacque’s Way –also known as the Way of the Stars or Milky Way- shines, especially, in an art, Romanesque or Byzantine, as it was called well into the 20th century, which for a long time was considered 'the art of Christianity'.

One of the details that characterizes many Romanesque temples is that of having a porticoed gallery, whose utility was due to multiple factors, among which it is worth highlighting, as a representative example of two antagonistic worlds, the earthly and the spiritual, the need to a refuge where the faithful could protect themselves from inclement weather and an added symbolic meaning, since the arcades of the gallery represented the gates of the Holy City par excellence: Jerusalem.

This last sense, therefore, manages to introduce us, in some unequivocally sensitive way, making our subconscious, when observing those beautiful shadows projected on the floor of the gallery and the side of the church nave, remind us of the symbolic and spiritual meaning previously exposed.

And it is that, as that sinister character of Shakespeare, Hamlet, prince of Denmark said: there are more things in the world, than our philosophy dreams of.

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