The Ways of Santiago
We already have the number of pilgrims in 2018: 327,342 took the Compostela!
We already have the number of pilgrims in 2018: 327,342 took the Compostela! In 2017 the number of Compostelas was 301,036 ... The pilgrimage to Santiago continues to encrease!
Each day more than 30 or 40 pilgrims take their Compostela: never before had so many pilgrims arrived at Christmas!
Pilgrims continue to arrive in Santiago this December!
Pilgrims in Santiago: winter pilgrims in the streets of Compostela!
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...
The Portuguese Way: A little history
In the Middle Ages the Portuguese Way was developed on the fluvial, maritime and terrestrial routes traced by the Romans and the Muslims. Its antiquity could be as great as that of the French Way, its origin being -according to some historians- a political path of...