Heidi Verbruggen – Vlaams Compostelagenootschap
O CEBREIRO SEEN BY PILGRIMS OF OTHER CENTURIES
O Cebreiro is today a magical place, known and loved by pilgrims from all over the world. In the past, however, its geographical location in a high mountain area, in the Galician-Leonese massif, which reaches 1,300 meters of altitude, made it an extremely fearful...
The Codex Calixtinus: Book II. The Miracles of Santiago
We are continuing to go through the books that make up the Codex Calixtinus… Book II occupies 16 folios (f. 139v – 155v) of the codex, being the second smallest of those that compose it. After the extensive book I, dedicated to the liturgy and festivities of Santiago,...
Santiago: The park of La Alameda
There are many pilgrims who, when arriving in Santiago, look for a place to eat or sleep for a while, where they can share their experiences with other companions and where they can reflect or meditate on the experience that has just been completed… Those...Steve Lytch – American Pilgrims on the Camino
Report 2023: The number of pilgrims and foreigners is growing and the number of American Pilgrims is soaring!
The Camino continues to grow with 446,039 Compostelas delivered in a year without a jubilee but in which the shadow of the pandemic seems to have definitively disappeared. In 2023, 187,185 Spaniards and 243,141 foreigners collected the Compostela, that is, only 44%...
The Museo do Pobo Galego: history, architecture, collection and temporary exhibitions
The history The Museo do Pobo Galego was founded in 1976 with the aim of investigating, conserving, disseminating, defending and promoting Galician culture in all its fields, particularly through the development of a museum that would represent these aims. The...
Margery Kempe, pilgrim to Santiago in 1417
In 1934 the manuscript of the biographical stories of Margery Kempe (1373-1438) was discovered – a very long text from the early fifteenth century of which until then only seven pages were known. It is one of the oldest pilgrimage itineraries, a very different...