THE PLACE:"Santiago–Rosalía de Castro Airport (Galician: Aeroporto de Santiago-Rosalía de Castro, Spanish: Aeropuerto de Santiago-Rosalía de Castro) (IATA: SCQ, ICAO: LEST), previously named Lavacolla Airport and also known as Santiago de Compostela Airport, is an international airport serving the autonomous community and historical region of Galicia in Spain. It is the 2nd busiest airport in northern Spain after Bilbao Airport. It has been named after the Galician romanticist writer and poetess, Rosalía de Castro, since 12 March 2020.
History
The airport was set up by a group of aviation enthusiasts in October 1932 and two months directors were chosen to select where the airport was going to be built. In 1935 construction work started at the airport where two years later on 27 September 1937 the first scheduled flight from Santiago de Compostela took place. After the Spanish Civil war, political prisoners (who were held in the concentration camp of Lavacolla) were forced to work in the construction of the airport.
In 1969 a new terminal was built at the airport. It has had several expansions taking place since it opened. It closed in 2011 following a brand new terminal being built at the airport. In 1981, a cargo terminal was built, giving the airport capacity to handle cargo flights. During the 1990s, the airport had non-stop service to South America operated by Viasa.
On 13 October 2011, a new passenger terminal opened at the airport, replacing the old terminal, opened in 1969 and remodeled in 1993.
Terminal
The airport currently has one operating terminal. The old terminal at Santiago de Compostela airport opened in 1969 and was often expanded. The old terminal closed on the night of 13 October 2011 when operations transferred to the new terminal.
The new terminal at Santiago de Compostela Airport officially opened on 13 October 2011 and passenger operations transferred there the following day. It is adjacent to the old terminal and has a size of 74,000 sq m. It has 22 check-in desks, 3 security checkpoints, 4 baggage carousels, and 13 gates of which 5 have airbridges. The baggage hall is split into two zones, one for Schengen flights and one for Non-Schengen. It can handle as many as 4 million passengers per year. The terminal is due to be expanded in the future. This includes adding another five airbridges to five of the current gates as well as three more baggage carousels and an expanded shopping area.
Statistics
During the early 2000s, numbers increased significantly at the airport, from 1.24 million in 2002 to peak at 2.46 million in 2011. Because of the financial crisis in Spain, those numbers decreased to 2.1 million in 2014. Cargo has decreased significantly over the last ten years. The Spanish economic recovery in the mid-2010s and the rise of Santiago de Compostela as an international destination are again increasing passenger numbers, breaking the 2.50 million mark for the first time in 2016."
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THE PERSON:Rosalia de Castro
(Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 1837 - Padrón, id., 1885) Spanish writer in Castilian and Galician languages. Belonging to a noble family through her maternal line, her adolescence was dominated by a profound crisis due to the discovery of the illegitimate daughter of a priest, and by her delicate health, which she never improved.
Her first book, La flor, was published in Madrid in 1857 and received rave reviews from Manuel Martínez Murguía, a prominent critic of the Galician Renaissance, with whom Rosalía de Castro married the following year. She lived in the midst of constant economic hardship, dedicated to her home and her children; the death of her mother and that of one of her children were two hard blows for her.
His first work of maturity refers to this bitter experience, the book of poems A mi madre (1863), which was followed by the Galician Songs (1863), a song to his rural Galicia, full of longing and denunciation of the exploitation of the reapers. by Castilla. With Cantares Gallegos, written entirely in the Galician language, the poetic renaissance in that language began, which would soon be endorsed by Manuel Curros Enríquez and Eduardo Pondal.
She later returned to the novel with Ruins (1866), the story of three exemplary and unhappy women in a modern environment that they perceive as alien. A year later, her most successful narrative work was published, The Knight in the Blue Boots (1867), a mysterious and fantastic novel that connects with the best of her lyrical work.
In 1880 her second book appeared in Galician, the Follas novas, an anguished and intimate expression about the death and loneliness of the human being. Her literary production is closed by the novel El primer loco (1881) and the poetry book in Castilian language En las orillas del Sar (1885); the latter continues the line of metaphysical meditation begun with Follas novas, although this time accentuating the religious sentiment.
Rosalía's work, which moves between a social concern for the harsh conditions of Galician fishermen and peasants and another of a metaphysical nature that places her within existential literature, has been equated with that of Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer as What a late representative of Spanish Romanticism, although this relationship comes more from the community of literary sources than from a real affinity of literary and vital attitude. Bécquer and Rosalía are pointed out by critics as the initiators of contemporary Spanish poetry; Rosalía's verses anticipated some aspects of Rubén Darío's modernism, and her influence extended, through Antonio Machado and Juan Ramón Jiménez, to the generation of '27.
Rosalía de Castro's poetry, in particular, denotes anxiety, an anguished restlessness in the face of strange forebodings that are perceived as one's own in the closest environment. Likewise, her painful sensitivity projected a set of magnificent visions of the Galician landscape in which a gray atmosphere of indefinable sadness predominates. That sensitivity was the one that conveyed a conception of nature as that of an animated, mysterious reality, whose most visible signs speak of a suffering life.
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