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caminoasantiago.com Carlos has already started the pilgrim Caminos on september the 8th. You can suscribe on the left and we will let you know when carlos is publishing journals through the historical trails to Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, Spain. Everything will be on the web site: diaries, photos, videos, interviews and reflections.

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The 8 walks of Santiago. Résumé It’s been a month since I finished the 8 walks of Santiago in its Galician section, 69 days and 1.800.000 steps that left an inedible mark on me; the experiences I collected have settled and I hope that this résumé will help those pilgrims who still haven’t decided which walk to do the following Holy Year to find out what they will encounter, and those who hadn’t planned to do the walk, to find their own “Walk”. Time predictions given are based on the existing shelters (=pilgrims’ hostels) and in legs of up to 25km, except for the parts where there are no shelters in-between. The differences encountered in signposting and vegetation along the Walk will be settled next Holy Year. I have more questions concerning the shelters, which are clearly too few to host all pilgrims. I have received many e-mails asking for advice, something very difficult for me; it’s like asking a mother which of her kids she loves most, each Walk has its own virtues and flaws. I’m doing the résumé in strict chronological order, so that my preferences, which I undoubtedly have, are not noticed, although they are completely subjective, as the best thing about the Walk is always the pilgrims you... »Read whole article

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The Way to Fisterra, from Santiago to Olveiroa Ponte Maceira. One of the enchantments Santiago holds for me is that once you've walked ten minutes out of Obradoiro you're already in the countryside, and this is what characterizes the Way to Fisterra. After passing through the oak woods of San Lourenzo, to which Rosalia de Castro dedicates a poem in "Follas Novas", one of her most famous works, the Camino becomes completely rural. In Trasouto is the country house of San Lourenzo, of medieval origin, with a church containing baroque and Renaissance works of art, and a beautiful boxwood garden. Autumn in NegreiraYou walk among cultivated vegetable gardens and green meadows where cows graze tranquilly. One of the characteristics of Galician cows is that they often have their own names, since these are family operations... »Read whole article

The Muxia-Fisterra Pilgrimage The Finisterrana, the pilgrim´s certificate. It's the only pilgrimage route that doesn't end in Santiago. The Compostelan city is the point of departure, and the end is the impressive silhouette of the tip of Fisterra (Finisterre in Castilian), the westernmost part of Europe and - until America was reached - considered the End of the Earth, which is what "Finisterrae" means in Latin. The continuation of the Milky Way route brought pilgrims to this locale, fostered by multiple pagan rituals and beliefs, as when the Romans were overcome with fear when they saw the sun disappear in the sea - a ludicrous concern wherever they were, given that the same thing happens anywhere on the west coast of Italy. As is typical, pagan customs were adapted to the needs of the Church. The... »Read whole article

The Maritime Way - Arousa and the river Ulla 4 hours earlier was pouring. The Maritime Way is probably the least known of all the pilgrimages to Santiago, although in recent years it has become more popular because of famous pilgrims like Prince Felipe, the Spanish King’s son (maybe he asked the Apostle to find him a girlfriend). It commemorates the 1st century journey that, according to tradition, the disciples of Santiago made with the Apostle’s beheaded body: they started out in Jaffa (Palestine), came to the Galician coast, went up the ria of Arousa and the rivers Ulla and Sar, finally landing in Padrón, which was then the river port of the Roman city Iría Flavia. The boat and its captain, Antonio PesadoThe Codex Calixtinus or Liber Sancti Iacobi, written in 1139 by a French priest, recounts in detail this... »Read whole article

Silver Way. From Orense to Santiago Orense Cathedral. Orense is a city that merits an attentive full morning visit. The early fog clears up slowly and people take to the street seeking the warmth of the autumn sun. The Cathedral, dating back to the twelfth century, has a portal, called the door of Paradise, which bears the handy work of disciples of Maestro Mateo. The Roman Bridge..Orense is well know for its hot springs that surge, at a high temperature, from the fount of das Burgas; there are public thermal baths at the edge of the Mino river, as well as many thermal private facilities. Walking about the old section of Orense is a delight: cobbled streets, arcaded stone squares and Roman and Baroque churches. Leaving the city one crosses one of the most beautiful, and better preserved, Roman bridges in Spain; it... »Read whole article