Atlantic Romanesque promotes the education of those that manage and show our churches

• Technicians from the Atlantic Romanesque Plan, supported by a touristic consultant, have given workshops aimed the people that manage and show the churches of San Martín de Castañeda and San Pedro de la Nave, in Zamora, as well as the church of San Martín de Tours, in Salamanca.
• The workshops are aimed at one of the main goals of the intervention plan, to generate development and contribute to the touristic dynamization of the cities in which it actuates.
• In this same line of action the promoters of the Plan have organized open workshops in the newly restored information point in the church of San Martín de Tours, in Salamanca, to enable the visits to the temple during Holy Week.

Neighbours in charge of showing the churches, priests and municipal technicians were the main recipients of the workshops promoted by those responsible for the Atlantic Romanesque Plan that have been given this week in the cities of San Martín de Castañeda and El Campillo, in Zamora, as well as in Salamanca.

The activity’s main goal was to give the assistance a series of guidelines and advices on performance, aimed at improving the attention to the visitor and the management of the churches in which interventions have taken place.

This is in line with one of the main goals of the Atlantic Romanesque, promoted by the Consejería de Cultura y Turismo de la Junta de Castilla y León, the Fundación Iberdrola España and the Secretaría de Estado de Cultura do Governo de Portugal, is to contribute to the sustainable development of the cities in which it intervenes through the touristic dynamization of the churches and their surroundings. A goal that counts on the support of the dioceses of each city, as well as the Fundación Santa María la Real del Patrimonio Histórico, in charge of the development of the Plan.

Open workshops in San Martín de Tours

Working towards this goal, and to strengthen the visits during Holy Week, the promoters of the plan have organized an open workshop in the information point recently completed in the San Martín de Tours church, in Salamanca.

Thus, from the 21st until the 28th of May, free guided tours were held in the mornings, at 11h00, 11h30 and 12h00, and in the afternoons, at 16h00, 16h30 and 17h00, except for Holy Thursday, during which there will be no afternoon visits.

We must remember that the space, opened in the beginning of the year, constitutes an invitation to get to know not only the church in the heart of Salamanca, but also the intervention developed in the scope of the Atlantic Romanesque Plan, in a route that combines the strength of audiovisuals with a lighting thought to highlight the most emblematic architectonic and sculptural elements of spaces such as the Capilla del Carmen, where a new lighting has been used to highlight a romanesque entryway discovered in 1958.