I am 81 years old. I retired in 2002 and cared for my sick mother until 2004. In 2006 I decided to take my 15-year-old great-niece to do a seminar in O Grove and, from there, one weekend we went to visit Santiago. At the Obradoiro we saw the...
Memory of the pilgrimage
Miguel Ángel. México
My contact with the Camino de Santiago was quite accidental. One day while surfing the internet, I came across a video that spoke of that wonderful journey and I was immediately struck by it. I had no doubt that, at some point, life would take me...
Iris. Holland
I am Dutch, I am 24 years old and I have just finished my studies. I am blind, and when I was born I had 10 percent vision, but only until I was 6. Now, I can only distinguish the differences between light and dark. I practice sports and I like to...
Bycios. Italy
Bycios discovered the Camino de Santiago in the 90s through magazines, especially those with a medieval theme, but also some of the "new age" world, although he was interested in actually doing it. His life went on, in the year 2000 he got married...
Aaron. United States
Aaron arrived in Santiago with his friend Michael, the two having just walked together from Astorga. They met in a congress concerning Spanish national exams, a congress in which between two and three thousand teachers meet. They became friends...
Donna. United States
I live in California and I am an English teacher, but I also write. I have written poetry for children and I have been published in some anthologies, I have also written poetry about my experience and I continue to write. In my poetry I speak of...
Arlindo. Portugal
Llega a Santiago después de recorrer el Camino Primitivo, antes había caminado por casi todas las rutas: dos veces el Camino Central Portugués desde Valença, también el Camino de Fisterra-Muxía, el Camino Inglés, el Camino Francés desde O Cebreiro;...
Sylvia. Germany
In 2016 Sylvia decided to separate from her husband. They had been together for 25 years but they were not happy and at that moment she decided that it was not possible to continue like this and she left her husband. Her husband was a very...
Benedetta. Italy.
In 2002 I heard about the Camino for the first time. It was from a friend who had come to walk it and I liked the idea. Then I wanted to do it, but I wanted to wait for a suitable moment. And this moment finally appeared. It was a moment of closing...
Michael. United States
Michael is a Hispanist. The first time he heard about the Camino was in the years 84-85. He was in Castellón de la Plana, he had just completed his teaching practice and he decided to travel with his wife through Spain. On their journey they passed...
Mina. Italy
I was sick and spent a lot of time in the hospital. From my bed I could see a mountain in front of the window and I used to imagine myself barefoot on it, there, touching the ground with my feet. I knew that the Camino de Santiago existed because...
JACINTO B. MOYA – USA / ECUADOR
The Camino… THE WAY IS FOR EVERYONE! … It is very special, whether you do it for religious reasons or just for the sake of it. You see people from all over the globe, all ready to live it. THE WAY IS LIKE YOUR LIFE… every landscape, every change in...
Way of silence – Rafa Prieto
My path, this path, was special. It started in Seville, in front of the Cachorro* in Holy Week 2019, when I promised Him that I would do it and bring Him the Compostela, if He helped me in a very complicated work situation. This was because, after 32 years in the same...
Oihana Trojaola tells us about her experience as an ACC volunteer, receiving and caring for pilgrims in Compostela!
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 Christian Reception in...
Gabriela. Romania
I think the Camino calls you, if you have to do it, I'm sure you'll end up doing it. I felt that I was being called by several signs of different events: the first was that I read that someone from Romania did the Camino, then I discovered Paolo Coelho's books, which...
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 years old, but...
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:...