Oihana Trojaola has collaborated with the Foundation since its inception. She actively participated in our audiovisual ‘The Memory of the Pilgrims’ and in our book ‘The year 2020 on the Camino’- as a pilgrim in Spain and active volunteer of...
Interviews and reflections
Laurie Dennett talks about her new book: Waybread. Memories of the Camino for the Onward Journey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EdAT-jpWbg&t=7s
Interview with Ovidio Campo, responsable for the San Antón Hospital and its Astronomical Observatory, the first on the Camino!
- The San Antón hospital is well known on the Camino, to begin with: Could you briefly introduce the Foundation and Association that take care of the San Antón hospital? The Foundation, a non-profit organization, was created with the aim of...
Norman Sinclair: creator and diffuser of “the Pilgrim Rose” on the Camino de Santiago
Al andar se hace camino y al volver la vista atrás, se ve la senda, que nunca se ha de volver a pisar, Caminante no hay camino, sino estelas en la mar. Antonio Machado Norman Sinclair was born in Venezuela, where he lived until he was 17...
The Association of Friends of Cruz Blanca de Córdoba and its Caminos – Miguel Ángel Caracuel
The foundation of our Association dates back to the first democratic town halls in our town. The “San Francisco de Assísi” Family Home was opened in Córdoba on January 7, 1977, in a small centre for 15 patients. Many ladies attended the house to...
Interview with Alfonso García López about his book “The port of La Coruña on the English Way to Santiago de Compostela”
Alfonso García López (Madrid, 1942), since his retirement in 2012 as a notary for the city of La Coruña, has dedicated his free time to continue writing. He regularly collaborates with personal articles in the press: in El Correo Gallego, with a...
Interview with Fran Lucas Herrero about his book “In Itinerae Stellae. Walking the Camino de Santiago Aragonés”
Fran Lucas Herrero is a pilgrim originally from Zaragoza who, for some time, has shared his experiences on the Camino through a blog and social networks. He has recently taken another step in his work to disseminate the Camino de Santiago by...
We interviewed Anne Born: pilgrim, hospitalera, historian, poet and author of three books on the Camino
Anne Born is the author of three books on the Camino de Santiago and, today, is one of the main connections between the United States and the Camino de Santiago. Poet, editor, historian... although for decades she lived in New York - from where she...
The Camino after the pandemic: Paco Castro
The Camino goes on* Peace and goodness: Saint Teresa of Jesus said (wrote) that they had to live in “tough times” back then, and we could almost apply this same nomenclature to current times, after the break caused by the pandemic; a parenthesis,...
“Words on the Camino”, the most personal book by Paolo Caucci von Saucken
"Words on the Camino" is a journey through more than five decades of scattered texts, talks, presentations, introductions... A rigorous and sentimental work that its author carried out during the forced confinement of Covid-19, "that modern...
We interviewed the writer Silvina Potenza about her Camino and her novel ‘For the magic of the Way’
Silvina Potenza is Argentinian, from Rosario, with a degree in communication and is also a writer. On her website www.silvinapontenza.com, you can consult everything she has written, including her latest book: Por la magia del Camino. Her book on...
Camino Francés Federación (CFF) has been created: We have interviewed its coordinator Miguel Pérez Cabezas
Miguel Pérez Cabezas has just been appointed coordinator of the provisional board of directors of the French Way Federation, of which the Jacobean associations of Burgos, Logroño, Estella and Astorga are part, and will be until they ratify the...
Interview with Alfonso García López about his book “The port of La Coruña on the English Way to Santiago de Compostela”
Alfonso García López (Madrid, 1942), since his retirement in 2012 as a notary for the city of La Coruña, has dedicated his free time to continue writing. He regularly collaborates with personal articles in the press: in El Correo Gallego, with a fortnightly column...
Interview with Fran Lucas Herrero about his book “In Itinerae Stellae. Walking the Camino de Santiago Aragonés”
Fran Lucas Herrero is a pilgrim originally from Zaragoza who, for some time, has shared his experiences on the Camino through a blog and social networks. He has recently taken another step in his work to disseminate the Camino de Santiago by publishing his first book:...
We interviewed Anne Born: pilgrim, hospitalera, historian, poet and author of three books on the Camino
Anne Born is the author of three books on the Camino de Santiago and, today, is one of the main connections between the United States and the Camino de Santiago. Poet, editor, historian... although for decades she lived in New York - from where she told us about the...
The Camino after the pandemic: Paco Castro
The Camino goes on* Peace and goodness: Saint Teresa of Jesus said (wrote) that they had to live in “tough times” back then, and we could almost apply this same nomenclature to current times, after the break caused by the pandemic; a parenthesis, in general - in life,...
“Words on the Camino”, the most personal book by Paolo Caucci von Saucken
"Words on the Camino" is a journey through more than five decades of scattered texts, talks, presentations, introductions... A rigorous and sentimental work that its author carried out during the forced confinement of Covid-19, "that modern plague". These are...