Adriana Fernández – Asociación de Amigos del Camino de Santiago de Uruguay
Oriella – Italy
Video in Italian with English subtitles, you can find them in the bottom bar of the video, clicking on the “cc”...
The French Way: Torres del Río
Torres del Río is a small village of fewer than 200 inhabitants, one of those tiny settlements that are full of history and closely linked to the pilgrimage to Compostela. In this case it also is internationally known for its majestic church of the Holy Sepulchre. The...
The Monte do Gozo seen by pilgrims of other centuries
The pilgrimage of the 21st century is undoubtedly very different from that of medieval times, but there is one aspect in which the two experiences seem to be similar: the emotions experienced during the Camino and those that are experienced when reaching the goal,...
Churches of Santiago: Collegiate of Santa María del Sar
The site of the Collegiate of Santa María del Sar, outside the medieval walls of Compostela, plays an important part in the long Jacobean tradition. The Sar neighborhood is named after the river which runs through it and is the entrance for the pilgrims who come from...
Interview with Jacinto Fuentes Mesa, President of the Andalusian Federation of Associations of Friends of the Camino de Santiago
The Jacobea Foundation dedicates part of its space and projects to the work and history of the Jacobean Associations, some of which have formed federations or groups to unite their efforts and work collectively. This is the case of the Andalusian Federation of...
Pilgrimage rites today: What do pilgrims do when they arrive in Santiago?
The most famous and indispensable of the traditions is the one that takes the pilgrim to the high altar of the cathedral: to embrace to the Saint, and later to visit his tomb in the crypt. The embrace or “tightening”, as it is called in Galician, is given...Andree Lombard – Confraternity of St. James of South Africa
