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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dj gamaya" data-source="post: 10847124" data-attributes="member: 61857">Meeting the locals <img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_iTGXYFIkfkA/TEffLO4_A9I/AAAAAAAAanE/zpT2HweXyvk/s1600/Explored+On+Foot+-+001.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Plan in hand and shunning a guided tour, I made my way to the cathedral  in Santiago de Compostela. As inevitably happens, the map always looks  different than the reality and I decided to ask directions of an elegant  lady on the street. We fell into a conversation. "If you are looking  for something really typical of Santiago," she said, "you should visit  the statue of the 3 Marias, our local heroines." She continued to explain that said Marias had been three sisters who,  during the times of Franco, had suffered serious hardship. Bound on  pulling themselves out of misery, they began to design and sew their own  clothes and, every day at the dot of 3pm, set out on a walk around the  city center, modeling their clothes and, as they had a lot of wit and a  sharp tongue, flirting with the students and providing entertainment for  an entire city during dreary times. After their death, a statue was  erected in their honor and Galician poets even dedicated poems to them.  No guidebook mentions this story, which I would not have discovered  without taking to the street. </blockquote>

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