Live the Experience of the Way of Saint James

I Want Galicia, I Want Camino

"More than 300,000 people a year travel the oldest pilgrimage route in Europe on foot, by bicycle or on horseback. Choose your way of living the Way"

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A route runs through EUROPE with destination Compostela

The discovery of the tomb of the Apostle Saint James in Galicia around the year 820 was one of the most important events of the Middle Ages in all the continent

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1,200 years of HISTORY at our feet

Today, twelve centuries later, the Way of St. James is the first European Cultural Itinerary and is a World Heritage Site

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DIALOGUE of cultures and “highway” of KNOWLEDGE

On the walk to Compostela arose the Romanic style, the Gothic Cathedrals, the medieval lyrical poetry of the “cantigas” or the “chansons de geste”

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Example of HOSPITALITY and SOLIDARITY

Fraternity, hospitality and voluntary service are the three grand values of the Way

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From the Codex Calixtinus to the ten historical ROUTES

There are ten historical routes of the Way. The Codex Calixtinus describes one of these in the XII century, the French Way

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A Way of the SPIRIT which venerates the first martyr of Christianity

Santiago the Elder was decapitated in Jerusalem about the year 44 and his disciples wanted to bring him to Hispania, where several documents dating from the VI century situated his pilgrimage

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The EFFORTS of the walker obtains their REWARD

There are kilometres of effort and illusion. The pilgrim knows that “the goal is the Way” and he enjoys each experience until the culmination of the route

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SANTIAGO: The city which is “more eternal than ancient”

Santiago de Compostela, capital of Galicia, with a historical quarter which is a World Heritage Site and is one of the cities with more green areas in Spain

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Emergency guidebook

Follow the advice given in this guidebook, prepare your Way well in advance...

Current events of Xacobeo

15/Oct/2018

Galicia welcomes its 300,000th pilgrim with predictions to close 2018 with a new record above 320,000

This increase in the number of pilgrims, arriving from 172 countries and on more and more pilgrimage routes, shows that "Galicia gusta" and that everyone's work has made the...

13/Oct/2018

The Xunta stresses the importance of the new International Federation of Associations of the Portuguese Camino de Santiago

Tui (Pontevedra), 13 October 2018 The Xunta de Galicia highlighted the importance of the new Federación Internacional de Asociaciones del Camino Portugués de Santiago...

12/Oct/2018