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...
32,069 pilgrims from the U.S. collected the Compostela in 2023: Anne Born writes about the success of the Camino in the United States
When I finished my first Camino de Santiago on New Year’s Eve in 2010, I was very likely the last pilgrim to receive their Compostela that year. The pilgrims’ office was closed, the Holy Door was also closed, and the celebratory Mass to conclude the Holy Year had...Danielle Sagné – Compostelle 2000
Chloe Tassel – Compostelle 2000
Manuel Castiñeiras: Past and present of the Declaration of the Camino de Santiago as Unesco World Heritage (1993-2023).
A current look. Past and present of the Declaration of the Camino de Santiago as Unesco World Heritage (1993-2023). Manuel Antonio Castiñeiras González President of the International Committee of Experts of the Camino de Santiago On December 16, a commemorative...