Photo Post: Santiago de Compostela’s Belvís Park
Belvís to the south A few months ago, I talked about Santiago de Compostela’s Alameda Park on the blog. It’s the city’s historic public park with great views of the old town and many beautiful old trees. The Alameda is a great place to go for an afternoon stroll, and the trails that run around its central wooded hill are perfect for jogging. But it’s always busy with people at all hours of the day—be they tourists getting their pictures of the cathedral from the lookout point, a wall of old ladies stretching from one end of the path to the other, or packs of joggers careening around the corners. So it’s not surprising that the introvert in me and my inner hipster prefer Santiago’s Belvís Park, just to the east of the old town. Belvís to the north Pronounced “bel-VEES” [belˈβis] with the accent on the second syllable, I was told by a tour guide that the name derives from the Galician phrase bela vista or “pretty view,” which makes sense, because from the highest point in