Santiago de Compostela

It was contested above all by its own townspeople. In 1318, led by the noble Afonso Suárez de Deza, they rose against a new French archbishop, Berenguel de Landoria, and fought him for two years, until on 16 September 1320 the rebel leaders were killed at his castle of Rocha Forte, a day remembered as the Day of Wrath. The crown took a firmer hand under the Catholic Monarchs, who visited in 1486 and ordered a great hospital for the pilgrims beside the cathedral, built between 1501 and 1511. Its next great change came from its own masons. From about 1670 Galician architects such as Domingo de Andrade, who raised the cathedral's clock tower, rebuilt church after church in the Baroque style, giving the pilgrims' goal a new face of carved granite.