Camino de Santiago

About Camino de Santiago

For more than a thousand years, pilgrims have walked across Spain to the shrine of St. James in Santiago de Compostela, and the web of routes they wore into the landscape — the Camino de Santiago — has become one of the world's great journeys, sacred or secular. The final stages through Galicia are the classic experience: eucalyptus and oak woods, stone hamlets and horreo granaries, scallop-shell waymarks, and the ritual greeting of 'Buen Camino' passing between walkers of every nation.

The destination earns the journey. Santiago's granite old town, arcaded and rain-polished, wraps around the great Cathedral of St. James, where pilgrims have laid hands on the Portico of Glory since the twelfth century, and where the giant botafumeiro censer swings through the transept on feast days in a cloud of incense. Walk even the last hundred kilometers and you'll understand why so many arrive in tears — and why so many come back to walk again.

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