Jorge Martínez-Cava – Asociación de los Amigos de los Caminos de Santiago de Madrid
Sagrario. Spain.
The first time I went to Santiago it was the result of something like “where do you go Vicente, where do people go”, I signed up for what everyone was doing and I did it wrong. But on the Camino de Santiago there is always something that marks you and there was also...
Camino Francés Federación (CFF) has been created: We have interviewed its coordinator Miguel Pérez Cabezas
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...
Interview with Antón Pombo about his new guide to the Via Francigena
Antón Pombo is an experienced pilgrim, a leading figure in Jacobean associations and a specialist on the Camino de Santiago. As a historian, researcher and writer, he has been publishing books, articles and guides for the different itineraries of the Camino de...
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...
Interview with Manuel F. Rodríguez: The Primitive Way in 2021
Manuel F. Rodríguez is a journalist and a researcher. Recently he won the International Prize Aymeric Picaud and his life is a good example of dedication to the Camino de Santiago: from his intellectual production, his work on the Xacobeo of the Xunta de Galicia...
The Camino in the time of Covid: Endika Armengol, pilgrim in July and October 2020
Endika Armengol is a pilgrim with more than 70 long-distance Caminos behind him, several books of anecdotes and stories of the Camino and a particular feature that everyone knows: he always wears sandals when he walks. Accustomed to travelling between 4 and 6 ways a...
Melina Frías. Spain
There is a hostel in Palas de Rei, which has quite a a lot of pictures hanging on the wall. One of them is a frame with only letters, one of those so fashionable now. It was at the back of the common area, there wasn’t much light down there. Thank goodness, because at...
MIGUEL. SPAIN
I had heard about the Camino, I knew that it was very good, that there were shelters and I was interested in the possibility of travelling it. I wanted to organize a Camino but it had to be with my dog, I need my guide because I am blind. That is how my first Camino...