The Way of Sant James

Turismo de Galicia completes improvement work along three sections of the Primitive Route with a total investment of over one million euros

... In the Lugo municipality of Castroverde, Navas Castro inspected the results of the restoration and signage work to make the pilgrimage route safer and more accessible Over 500 milestones, almost 100 ceramic shells and more than 15 bronze shells were placed ...

The Xunta publishes the call for tenders totalling a little over one million euros for the drafting of landscape integration plans for the Way of St. James in the Official Journal of Galicia (DOG)

... This contract will provide for the drafting of the construction specifications for four actions, two on the French Route, one on the Portuguese and the last on the English The contract will be awarded in September, with the first plans to be drafted by the ...

Camino Kumano

... Located amidst the most sacred mountains of the Kumano Kodo, within the renowned Kumano Sanzan, stand three principal shrines: Kumano Hongu, Kumano Hayatama, and Kumano Nachi, a monumental and sacred complex situated on the Kii Peninsula. In 940, the shri ...

Love and faith on the Camino

... On the way out of Alto de Poio we meet two pilgrims from Alicante. This is their 2nd pilgrimage along the Camino Frances. They talk about the brotherhood they feel with other pilgrims and the rich intercultural exchange that happens along the way to Santia ...

Five monuments on the Camino in Galicia

... The village of O Cebreiro, the Monastery in Samos, the church in Vilar de Donas in Palas de Rei, the church of Santa María de Leboreiro in Melide and the Cathedral in Santiago de Compostela. These are the monuments that Galicia brings to the program “Hitos ...

The Camino in 24 hours

... The camino de Santiago always brings along challenges, personal and in a group. A group of 30 bicyclists from the Basque country has set their goals on Santiago de Compostela. A decade ago, the members of the Club Erandioko Txirrindulari Elkartea did the C ...

Presentado o proxecto solidario "El Camino acaba en el Obradoiro"

... Esta iniciativa, promovida por Río Natura Monbus Obradoiro coa colaboración de Turismo de Galicia, ten o obxectivo de promover o Camiño de Santiago a nivel internacional, converterá ao recoñecido ex-xogador da NBA Terry Porter nun peregrino que percorrerá ...

Korean Experience on the Camino

... Proud over “surviving” a tendonitis that made it difficult to walk, this Korean pilgrim tells us his motives that made him walk the Camino and the things he has learn from this experience. Our pilgrim is in Santiago de Compostela and he has only one thing ...

Stickers on the Camino

Santiago welcomes pilgrim 200,000 in a record year for the Camino

... Pilgrim number 200,000 of this year 2016 stamped his Compostela today at the Pilgrim’s Office in Santiago. She is a Portuguese pilgrim from the city of Fatima who travelled the primitive Way from Lugo in a group together with relatives and neighbours. The ...