Camino news

From Sarria, we are waiting for you here at the association's premises to seal your credential in 2021, a greeting and Bon Camiño! Jorge López Rodríguez, president of the Association of Friends of the Camino de Santiago of Sarria.  

I just wanted to say one word in fact and that is We will return! I would like to return myself (if possible) in 2021 to do the Camino Primitivo. Arthur Rogers. Pilgrim. UK

Merry and Blessed Christmas and all the best for the year 2021 that is about to begin, for all the pilgrims and their families! ENCOURAGEMENT THAT WE WILL WALK AGAIN, THE WAY IS WAITING FOR US ... Rosana Montano. President of the Association of Friends of the Camino...

My wishes for the Camino in 2021 are the same as my wishes for the whole of society. For once I think that in the next year what is good for the Camino will be good for people in general. If the spread of Covid-19, the main collective concern at the moment, begins to...

Peace and good-will: the end and the beginning of a new year is always an invitation to continue moving forward. The time, the calendar, like the Camino de Santiago, delineates and supposes a series of stages that must be completed ... Always looking ahead, but with...

Very best wishes from the Confraternity of Saint James (CSJ, UK) to all pilgrims to Santiago. Despite everything, the Camino will always go on, and we look forward to seeing you there soon. In the meantime, stay safe and ultreia!   Freddy Bowen, General Manager...

There are 6 days left until the scaffolding that appears in the photo will be taken down, the hidden door will then be reopened and the Holy Year 2021 will begin... Next year will bring us goods, spiritual and material: Christmas is a preview. With best wishes from...

Perhaps, one of the key aspects that this year has brought us to the Santiago world is to highlight the things that really matter to us. In a time of a crisis, unprecedented in the last hundred years of the Camino de Santiago, it is more necessary than ever for us to...

TO ALL THOSE PILGRIMS WHO KEPT THE LIGHT OF PILGRIMAGE GOING IN THIS DIFFICULT YEAR, AND TO ALL THE HOSTEL-KEEPERS WHO WELCOME THEM. Antón Pombo. Anton Pombo. Journalist, researcher, writer, pilgrim. Picture: pilgrim crossing the Pyrenees in the ascent to the Col de...

Greetings from Albergue Castrotarafe in Fontanillas de Castro, on the Vía de la Plata just north of Zamora. It's been a strange year of course, with just a few dozen pilgrims staying since people started walking again in July. Ramiro, now 90 years old, is still...

This sinister year has ended: this leap year 2020 has not failed to correspond to its popular image. The atmosphere seems to be full of the desire to leave behind this time which has changed us globally and amidst sorrows, uncertainties and pessimism the old desire...

Le camino est dans notre coeur. Bonjour à tou(te)s, Depuis de nombreuses années, j'ai le plaisir de marcher sur le Camino de Compostelle dans la Péninsule Ibérique. Chaque fois, c'est une expérience et un vécu extrêmement riches sur le plan humain. Partir sur les...