We began to review the monthly figures of pilgrims: Despite the Covid-19 the Camino is resisting and the month of September passed without incidents or problems, with 10,441 pilgrims taking the Compostela and, although the majority were Spanish, with the presence of...
The Vía de la Plata is, among all the itineraries or routes of the Camino de Santiago, the most intimately linked to a Roman road. The original road, like so many communication routes, would have been created based on natural passage ways - wading across rivers,...
Carrión de los Condes is one of the most outstanding villas of the beautiful Tierra de Campos, a region in the province of Palencia that many pilgrims have fallen in love with. In spite of its scarce 2,500 inhabitants, the town still retains great religious and...
From Conchas del Camino: Susy from Pontevedra, Ana from Toledo, Oihana from Ireland and Guillerme from Lisbon, encouraged by the initiative that emerged on the French Way, with the project "La Luz del Camino", have organized an initiative in which all pilgrims who...
The Xunta de Galicia has launched the Camino Seguro program, a proposal to walk the Camino in the current health situation. In the link https://www.caminodesantiago.gal/es/caminoseguro You can find all the information for pilgrims and for companies and professionals...
You can find all the necessary information relevant to returning to the Camino at the link: https://www.caminosantiago.org/cpperegrino/scriptorium/vuelve.asp?fbclid=IwAR2BqSYzGlkOmHzGZzWdDLB56S54shumV8FEPK3jU4I4tAUn1mgz-gv5W8 Documents and applications in Spanish and...
Currently, what is called the Portuguese Way includes a series of alternative roads and routes that were adopted over the centuries, the most recognized and well documented being the Portuguese Central Way, which links the cities of Lisbon and Santiago. Among the...
The Winter Way can be understood as an itinerary in itself or as a southern variation of the French Way, an alternative route between Ponferrada and Santiago. Therefore, the Winter Road allows the pilgrim several options: 1 To walk it as part of a long-haul itinerary,...
The main places where pilgrims (who took the Compostela) started their Camino in 2019, allow us to know which were the most traveled routes and the proportion of short and long-distance pilgrims: Sarria 96.124 (27,66) S. Jean P. Port 33.197 (9,55) Oporto 27.924 (8,03)...
The data confirm that the Portuguese Way continues to grow considerably and also the important and recent growth of the Portuguese Way of the Coast and the English Way. As for the low number of pilgrims on the Fisterra-Muxía Way, don’t forget that the figures are...
All the numbers have increased, but continuity with respect to 2018 in the data of the Pilgrim's Office on the nationality of pilgrims: Spain 146,350 (42.11%) Italy 28,749 (8.27%) Germany 26,167 (7.53%) United States 20,652 (5.94%) Portugal 17,450 (5.02%) France 9,248...