Educational booklets

Short illustrated books for discovering the people, stories and heritage of Galicia.

A collection for discovering Galicia

Cadernos Mestre Mateo is an educational collection aimed especially at readers aged 8 to 12. Each volume starts from a person, work, place or episode in Galician history and turns it into a short, visual and accessible story, originally written in Galician.

How the notebooks work

The format combines narrative, illustrations, short “Did you know?” boxes and prompts to observe, compare and investigate. The aim is to offer rigorous knowledge without turning the notebook into a school textbook: above all, it should invite readers to look, ask questions and stay curious.

Documentary accuracy

For real works, monuments and historical figures, documentary accuracy is an editorial rule. What is known with certainty is distinguished from hypothesis or tradition: “we know”, “it is believed” and “legend says” do not mean the same thing.

First titles

• No. 1 · Mestre Mateo. Master of the Pórtico da Gloria.
• No. 2 · Mestre Mateo and the stone choir. A journey through the lost stone choir of Santiago Cathedral and the music suggested by its sculptures.

Topics in development

The collection is conceived as an open-ended series. These are some of the subjects already considered for future notebooks:

People and creativity

• Rosalía de Castro · one voice, many voices
• Martín Códax and medieval Galician music
• Castelao · drawing and thinking Galicia
• Emilia Pardo Bazán
• María Pita, Isabel Zendal and Concepción Arenal

History and heritage

• Stonecutters and the building of the great churches
• The Camino de Santiago
• Hillforts and Castro culture
• The Irmandiño revolts and the Kingdom of Galicia
• The arrival of the Vikings in Galicia
• Santiago Cathedral, Lugo’s Roman Wall, the Tower of Hercules and the Ribeira Sacra

Cadernos Mestre Mateo can work both as standalone reading and as support material for families, schools, museums and heritage sites.