Near the Cathedral

This is the door to the Catholic Kings Hotel, a very impressive 5 star hotel situated right next door to the cathedral.


This guy is a "Mimo" who basically stands on this little platform really still-like and pretends to be a statue, until somebody gives him money and then he'll move or do something funny, but is always silent. He actually really caught me offguard, because of course Pedro couldn't resist giving him a few "centimos" (euro cents)


This picture was taken from the steps of the back-door of the cathedral (the first photo I uploaded)... this is in the "silver district", named as such because there are about eleventybillion jewelry stores specializing in silver (okay, I didn't exactly count.. but there were a lot.)
This is the "Xunta de Galicia" (or "Junta" for the Spanish... I was surprised at just how much of the town was actually completely reliant on Gallego instead of Spanish), just across the plaza from the Cathedral. Anyway, this is basically a government building, since Santiago is the capital of the Galicia region (as Oviedo is the capital of Asturias).