Tomaso Antonio. Italy
His first Camino was in 2010 and he did it for a promise. He is a deacon in the Catholic Church and for a time he worked with a parish priest who always talked about the Camino de Santiago. He always told him that he was interested and that if at some point he decided...
Svend. Denmark
Svend has suffered from depressions since 2009. That year he suffered a particularly strong depression and his therapist recommended that he walk. He found information about the Camino and decided to come to Spain and visit it. His first experience was the French Way...
Janet. United States of America
She made her first Camino in 2013. About a year previous to that, she used to work as a volunteer at the Indianapolis Film Festival, and it was there that they screened the movie The Way. In that film she recognized something of herself: a desire for adventure and, in...
Clinete. Brazil
Clinete Brazil. 2018 She did not know anything about the Camino. She and her husband had lived in Germany for a while, where they returned for the teachers’ retirement pension which was due to her husband for having worked there. They travelled to Madrid, where they...
Gianchi. Italy. 2018
His first Camino was when he was 56 years old, the age at which he could retire. “I wanted to do something new and to take my mind off this moment of great change in my life. I had worked for 40 years in the same job and at that moment I wanted to try to do something...
María. Spain-Australia
Maria. Spain-Australia, 2018. María is Spanish, but has been living in Australia for 59 years. In 2002, she made a trip to Spain to attend a family wedding. She had recently divorced and, after attending the wedding, decided to tour Galicia with two relatives. She...
The North Way: A little history
The Northern Way is the pilgrimage route that borders the Cantabrian Cornice, it is an overland pilgrimage route but also a maritime one, since many pilgrims did the Camino by ship and then disembarked in one of its ports. These ships came from countries of northern...
The English Way: A little history
The importance of pilgrimages by sea is unquestionable, some specialists like Lacarra even maintained that the sea was the oldest route of pilgrimage, since it was by the maritime route that the news of the discovery of the tomb of Santiago spread to the Carolingian...