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8/Apr/2019

The Xunta announces the 2019 Camino de Santiago Awards that distinguish the role of society and institutions in the Jacobean field

The awards can receive entries from city councils and local entities, Jacobean collectives, small and medium enterprises, researchers or works of educational centres, among...

19/Oct/2017

Xunta to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Way of St. James as the first European Cultural Route over the next few weeks

Today, Nava Castro and Anxo Lorenzo presented a special programme organized by Turismo de Galicia, which will kick off next Monday with an official ceremony and a concert by...

1/Nov/2017

The Xunta celebrates UNESCO’s inclusion of the ‘Codex Calixtinus’ in the Memory of the World Register, thus recognising its great value

The medieval manuscript, preserved in the Santiago Cathedral, is now part of the most important documentary heritage in the history of mankind The proposal to request its...

15/Feb/2017

The Xunta is making progress in the projects to improve the integration of the landscape of the Caminos de Santiago in Compostela, with an investment of 4.2 million euros

In accordance with the agreement signed today, the Xunta will address adaptation work in, at least, four areas of entry of the Caminos de Santiago into the city, where the Town...

14/Oct/2019

The Xunta supports projects for the dissemination of Jacobean culture in 21 Associations of Friends of the Camino de Santiago

Today the  Official Gazette of Galicia publishes the resolution providing aid to the Associations of Friends of the Camino de Santiago to boost their projects related to...

26/Feb/2019

The Regional Government will expand the pilgrim hostel in Pontevedra on the Portuguese Way, an itinerary in which it is investing EUR 6.5 million

Román Rodríguez visited the facilities of this space of the Xacobeo Public Network which, for the last twenty years, has been managed by the Association of Friends of the...

12/Jun/2019

The Codex Calixtinus and the Cancionero da Vaticana will be exhibited for the first time together in Galicia thanks to an agreement between the Xunta and the Vatican

The works will be exhibited this year at the Cidade da Cultura within the framework of Galicia, un relato no mundo (Galicia, a story in the world), the first major international...

11/Apr/2017

The Xunta contributes more than 1 million euros for conservation and promotion of the French Route and cooperation with Galician municipalities along this route

The improvements will be made in Arzúa, Melide, Monterroso, Palas de Rei, Paradela, Pedrafita do Cebreiro, O Pino, Portomarín, Samos, Sarria and Triacastela These municipalities...