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26/Jul/2017

Nava Castro congratulates the International Committee of Experts on the Way of St. James for its work over the past 25 years

The Turismo director closed today’s working meeting of this team of nine specialists from throughout Europe, which advises the Xunta on issues around the pilgrimage route The...

20/Dec/2016

Nava Castro highlights the importance of the Camino de Santiago Awards recognising the initiatives which improve the route

The Director of Tourism of Galicia, Nava Castro, stated that the Camino de Santiago Awards are of the utmost importance for the recognition of the public and private initiatives...

19/Dec/2016

Nava Castro notes that the Chair of the Way of St. James will promote research, education and awareness of the Way and its traditions

The director of Galicia Tourism, Nava Castro, underscored that the creation of the Institutional Chair of the Way of St. James and Pilgrimages will yield advances in the knowledge...

5/Feb/2017

Nava Castro stresses the valuable work of the International Committee of Experts on the Camino de Santiago

• She pointed out that this organism is an example international dimension achieved by the Camino and the European interest in the pilgrimages to Compostela. • She referred to the...

23/Feb/2017

Nava Castro stresses the role of scientific and informative publications in the preservation of the Camino de Santiago

The Director of Turismo de Galicia attended the presentation of the book ‘Translating the relics of St. James', directed by Antón Pazos, Assistant Director of the Instituto de...

10/Mar/2017

Nava Castro highlights that the Portuguese Route has now established itself as the second most popular pilgrimage route to Santiago

The Turismo de Galicia director and the archbishop of Santiago, Monsignor Julián Barrio, attended the opening of the new pilgrim hostel in Milladoiro, Ames Last year, almost...

20/Jul/2017

Nava Castro celebrates the increasingly closer ties linking Galicia and Japan through the Way of St. James and Shikoku pilgrimage routes

The Turismo director welcomed a delegation from the World Heritage Committee for Japan’s Shikoku Trail with an official reception held today The two pilgrimage routes have been...

21/Apr/2010 0

In Search of Solidarity

A group of pilgrims suffering from Familial Spastic Paraplegias have completed in 10 days their Camino de Santiago along the Camino Francés from Pamplona to Santiago. Their...