Santiago de Compostela - Plaza de los Literários (Plaza de la Quintana)

On the south side of the Plaza de la Quintana is the long colonnade of the Casa de los Canónigos (17th-18th C.), once the residence of the Cathedral canons.

The whole of the east side of Plaza de la Quintana is occupied by the sober, almost forbidding, facade of the Convento de San Pelayo, which was given its present aspect in the 18th century. On the north side of the square a grand flight of steps leads to the Plaza de la Inmaculada on the north front of the Cathedral.