Jorge. Spain-France

Jorge. Spain-France

Jorge made his pilgrimage with his family, with his partner and his daughter of only a few months old. His partner is French and he is Spanish, and they met on the Camino in 2005. For him it was his second Camino, he had already done it in 2004. Now they live together...

Endika. Spain. 2018

Endika. Spain. 2018

Endika is from Navarre and lived 35 years alone, in the mountains, having the beach very close - about 20 kilometers - but he lived and always went to the mountain. As a child, at night, he saw the Milky Way with his grandfather and asked him about it. His...

Mario. Spain. 2018

Mario. Spain. 2018

In October 1987 he travelled often to Lugo, where he would cross paths with lean backpackers, who were making their weary way up to Lavacolla : these were the pilgrims of 1987. He learned the peregrinero cry, ultreia eia eia !, Up and up !, It was stimulating. He had...

Antonio. Spain. 2018

Antonio. Spain. 2018

He knew about the existence of the Camino from a very young age. He is the son of Galician emigrants to the United States, but in summer he came on holiday to his hometown: Esteiro. On one of those occasions, when he was 7 years old, a cousin took him to see the...

Interview with Antón Pombo: A reflection on the Camino de Santiago

Interview with Antón Pombo: A reflection on the Camino de Santiago

Antón Pombo is a specialist on the Camino de Santiago. He is an historian and researcher -with a doctoral thesis linked to the history of Compostela- and a writer specialized on the Camino with decades of experience as an author of books, articles and guides, and also...

Jaime. Spain. 2018

Jaime. Spain. 2018

He was born in Santiago 62 years ago. His first Camino was by bicycle, about ten or eleven years ago, and he traveled this way because he had inherited the bicycle of a Chilean pilgrim. His son had met a pilgrim, a Chilean man who asked him where the bus stop was to...

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