Catherine. France
Catherine has known the Camino for a long time. She remembers that she was about 35 years old and was working in the advertising world when a colleague told her that he was going to do the Camino de Santiago. The idea pleased her and surprised her. She remembers...Lillian Joppert – Associação Brasileira dos Amigos do Caminho de Santiago AACS (English subtitles)
INTERVIEW WITH MANUEL F. RODRÍGUEZ: THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE OF THE ENGLISH WAY
Manuel F. Rodríguez is a journalist and a researcher. Recently he won the International Prize Aymeric Picaud and his life is a good example of dedication to the Camino de Santiago: from his intellectual production, his work on the Xacobeo of the Xunta de Galicia...
Julie. Australia
Twenty years ago Julie read Shirley MacLaine’s book about the Camino de Santiago. She well remembers that time because she was pregnant with her daughter and she thought: “I want to do that”. But she was pregnant and was also a single mother, so she...Maxi Ruiz de Larramendi – Los Amigos del Camino de Santiago de Estella (II)
Iria Flavia and the origin of the Saint James tradition in Galicia
The town and river bank of Iria Flavia was, according to tradition, the landing place of the boat that carried the body of the Apostle from the port of Haifa (Palestine). Iria Flavia is thus linked to the origin of the legend of Santiago: to the Traslatio de Santiago,...