CRUCEIRO
Subtitle: Spanish Galicia at some crossroads in Philippine History and Culture 1521-1898
Publisher: Center for Kapampangan Studies and Centro Gallego de Filipinas
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Angeles City Philippines
Format: Paperback
Description: This pioneering book highlights the coalescent and identifiable but often disregarded role of the Galician region of north-western Spain and its people-the gallegos-in the history and culture of the Philippines, from 1521 to 1898.
Performing historiographical rearrangement inspired by the motif of a cruceiro, or the tall, enduring stone cross unique to Galicia, the blending of the region and its people are presented at some crossroads or meeting grounds that transpired in the Philippine archipelago during the three centuries of Spanish presence. These crossroads, serving as chapters, feature the different facets of Philippine history and culture where the Galician influence has been enormously felt. The multidisciplinary presentation is done in the spirit of a romero, a pilgrim on the way to Santiago de Compostela -the Xacobeo or Camino Jacobeo-roaming the Galician topography of classic and artistic churches, monasteries, and other structures en route the tomb of the Apostle since time immemorial. 
Through the perspective of regional and local studies, the cruceiro also serves as the element that the publication intends to achieve: the fostering or encouragement of enduring relations between two cultures, those of the Philippines and Spain.
Table of contents: title: Chapter I  Gallegos and the First of the Castilas / 2; title: Chapter II  Fortalezas: Gallegos and the Building of Early Philippines/ 18; title: Chapter III  Gallegos and Labor Evangelica / 42; title: Chapter IV  Gallegos and Philippine Scholarship/ 68; title: Chapter V  Galician Toponyms and Patronymics/ 112; title: Chapter VI  Galicia in Philippine Society and Culture/ 128; title: Chapter VII Gallegos and the Last of the Castilas/156; title: Bibliography/ 185