His first Camino was when he was 56 years old, the age at which he could retire. “I wanted to do something new and to take my mind off this moment of great change in my life. I had worked for 40 years in the same job and at that moment I wanted to try to do something...
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 and had children and...
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 one circle, and the...
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 in my adolescence I...
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History has too often been written by and about men. For centuries, authors of all kinds and conditions have told us about intrepid adventurers, travellers and navigators, but completely leaving women like Egeria or Santa Elena, pilgrims and travellers of the fourth...
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Domenico Laffi was an Italian clergyman originally from the 17th century city of Bologna, a pilgrim to Compostela on several occasions and the author of an extraordinary account of his pilgrimages published and republished numerous times over the centuries. Through...