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 positions at the next...
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Interview with Máximo Ruíz de Larramendi: President of the Friends of the Camino of Estella-Lizarra talks about the 60 years of the association
Máximo Ruíz de Larramendi is the president of Los Amigos del Camino de Santiago – Center for Jacobean Studies, a Jacobean association from Estella-Lizarra, a pioneer of Jacobean associationism that this year celebrates its 60th anniversary. - The Association of...
Report 2021: 178,912 Compostelas delivered, majority of Spaniards and extremes of 3 pilgrims in February and 43,675 in August
El Camino resisted with 178,912 Compostelas delivered in a year still very marked by the pandemic in which we find unprecedented delivery extremes of Compostelas: from 3 delivered in the month of February to 43,675 in the month of August. In 2021 they collected the...
The Camino resists! 1,193 pilgrims collected the Compostella in December, 30% foreigners!
The Camino resists with 1,1193 Compostelas delivered in a month of December marked by the sixth wave of covid-19. The majority of Spaniards, but 30% of foreigners from various countries in Europe (1,084), America (79), Asia (22), Oceania (5) and Africa (3), confirm...
The Fundación Jacobea presented its project “The memory of he pilgrims II”
Last Friday the 17th we presented our new book The Memory of the Pilgrims. The year 2020 on the Camino and the audiovisual project Memory of Jacobean associationism !! Now much work awaits us, but we face it with enthusiasm and joy knowing that we have all of you with...
The Memory of the Pilgrims II
Next Friday the 17th at 1pm, we will introduce in Monte do Gozo "The memory of the pilgrims II", a project that includes the book "The year 2020 on the Camino" and the audiovisual project in progress "Memory of Jacobean associationism". We will keep you informed and,...
November ends with daily delivery figures of 150 to more than 200 Compostelas!
The proximity of winter has not emptied the Camino, on the contrary the pilgrimage seems to recover its essence: long-distance pilgrims of many nationalities have returned to the Camino! More than 150 pilgrims continue to arrive daily at the end of November, sometimes...
The Camino is once again multicultural: 31,465 pilgrims in October, 48% foreigners!
The Camino is reborn ... and is again multicultural !! 48% of the pilgrims who collected the Compostela in October were foreigners. In October 31,465 pilgrims collected the Compostela: 16,241 men and 14,929 women. Of them 29,236 traveled the Camino on foot; 1,875 by...
The Way is reborn: 37,465 pilgrims in September, the month in which the return of foreigners was consolidated!!
The Camino is reborn, the wishes and dreams of thousands of pilgrims are already being fulfilled !! In September 37,465 pilgrims collected the Compostela: 18,736 women, 18,728 men, 1 unknown. Of this number 35,152 travelled the Camino on foot; 2,240 by bicycle, 41 on...
The Way is reborn: 43,675 pilgrims in the month of August !! Pilgrims return from Europe, America and China !!
The Camino is reborn, the wishes and dreams of thousands of pilgrims are already being fulfilled !! In August 43,675 pilgrims collected the Compostela: 22,262 women and 21,313 men. Of them 41,332 traveled the Camino on foot; 2,132 by bicycle, 53 on horseback, 41 by...
The Way is reborn: 33,962 pilgrims in the month of July !! Pilgrims from Europe and America return to all the routes !!
We return from the holidays with the data from last July: the Camino is reborn, the wishes and dreams of thousands of pilgrims are already being fulfilled !! In July, 33,962 pilgrims collected the Compostela: 17,464 women and 16,498 men. Of them 31,762 traveled the...
July and August confirm the recovery of the Camino: every day more than 1.000 pilgrims arrive in Santiago!
July and August confirm the recovery of the Camino: every day more than 1.000 pilgrims arrive in Santiago! Spaniards continue to be the majority but there are more and more foreigners and it indicates that in 2022 the Camino de Santiago will once again be...