I had to leave a lot out as its long enough but i hope you can get the flavor of. Although the number of travellers decreased compared to those of medieval times, this journey is still popular today. The camino primitivo is a difficult, but beautiful christian pilgrimage, extending 310 kilometers 192. James, is the name given to any of the pilgrimage routes to the shrine of the apostle st. With ananda spiritual travel experienced trip leaders the orientation is an uplifting spiritual one connected to spirit in nature, through the lives of inspiring saints, and in sharing the experience with others. It owes its origin to the king alfonso ii of asturias who walked this route to visit the newly discovered tomb of the apostle santiago in the 9th century. It is here, in the cathedral that the remains of st. After several years working along the camino we have found several reasons that keep pilgrims feet moving over every kilometre of the route to santiago. It passes several beautiful historical towns and cities like sahagun, coca or segovia. Peregrinatio compostellana, pilgrimage of compostela.
Here is a link to wikipedia, including its history and modernday. James is a large network of ancient pilgrim routes stretching across europe and coming together at the tomb of st. We will fill you in on all of them, and we hope that you can identify with some of them. If you use the maps on your own site please reference the original source. This route can be traced all the way to the 12th century when it served as the main access route to santiago for pilgrims coming from england, scotland, ireland and other nordic countries. You can get a copy of the free guide to download in pdf format from our. For over years human feet, animal hooves, and recently bike and motor vehicle tires have literally carved this majestic and historical camino main highway. James is the name of any of the pilgrimage routes, known as pilgrim ways. I then continued on bus from point b to finisterre which is due west of point b, but unfortunately is not on this map. The information in this destination guide has been compiled with care. We actually started in ireland, then flew to spain to connect with the ingles. Reader pdf file, to be accessed through smartphones and tablets or printed by you.
James is famous the world over, this sacred pilgrimage walk has been undertaken by millions of people, over s of years. James is the name of any of the pilgrimage routes, known as pilgrim ways, to the shrine of the apostle st. Follow the camino frances pilgrimage, portuguese way, camino del norte and finisterre. Every marker in the itinerary its a end of stage counting up to 31. The route is very beautiful, it mostly goes on footpaths and rarely do you step on the asphalt. We just returned from completing the ingles with our sixmonth old baby boy. Whats new new posts new media new media comments new resources new profile posts latest activity.
This was a great post on the forum here is the first part of it. The tradition of walking the camino goes back to the 9th century when spanish king alfonso ii completed the first ever pilgrimage. The silver way starts in the andalusian city of seville in the south of spain and then continues north in parallel to the portuguese border crossing the spanish regions of estremadura and castile to finally enter galicia. We had booked a selfguided tour on the portuguese camino with walks in spain for september 2020 having been very happy with the arrangements they made for our 2008 sarria to.
A journey that would take them to the final resting place of st. There are many reasons that might inspire you when it comes to going on a pilgrimage to santiago. Whatever route you choose to follow, you can be sure to soak up regional spanish culture and visit historic cities. This is called the celtic camino, and we did about 170km total. A donation to the forum removes ads for you, and supports ivar in his work running it. Its updated every year to take account of all the new pilgrim hostels opening along the camino. In 1986, less than 2,500 pilgrims were issued a certificate of completion, whereas over 270,000 registered pilgrims walked into santiago in 2016.