If you are passionate about the world of the Camino de Santiago and its countless mysteries, this is your site. The Camino has a huge amount of curiosities that will make you jump off the couch, put on your backpack and start walking. Myths, legends, and even countless stories are hidden behind the paths of the Camino, and in this section we tell you all of them. What are you waiting for?
A very important asset of the Camino de Santiago, and part of the pilgrim community, is undoubtedly the associations of Friends of the Camino de Santiago. Friends, pilgrims, hospitaleros, businessmen, lovers [...]
Surely some rainy afternoon or some tedious Sunday you have occupied them playing card games or board games such as Parcheesi, chess, checkers or goose. The latter, the Game of the [...]
We have to go back to the 12th century to talk about the Jacobean Holy Year, when Pope Calixtus II granted the Cathedral of Santiago the privilege of celebrating the Jubilee [...]
Every pilgrim knows the benefits of the Camino de Santiago, and one of them is none other than the region where all the routes converge, the green and generous Galicia. If [...]
Today Santiago de Compostela receives hundreds of thousands of pilgrims every year, despite how the pandemic may have affected tourism and the pilgrimage. But it was not always like this, as [...]
the Camino de Santiago leaves a deep mark for anyone who has ever walked it, whatever route it is, because all of them offer a vital experience that, once finished, brings [...]
At this point in the month of December, and with Christmas just around the corner, you're probably already thinking about the gifts you want to give to your loved ones, sometimes [...]
The Way of Santiago returns to the red carpet and is the protagonist of the celluloid once again. In this year 2021, a very special year as Holy Year, the Jacobean [...]
The development of new technologies in recent years has gone at breakneck speed, offering us more and more new technological utilities for everyday life. Today our mobile phones are like computers [...]
The Galician "queimada", which literally means "burnt", is an alcoholic drink based on brandy which, along with other ingredients, is literally burnt and cooked to be consumed hot. However, before handing [...]
One of the elements with the most history and symbolism of the Camino de Santiago is the Iron CrossAlso known in Leonese as "Cruz de Fierro", which in Spanish is the [...]
The stony city of Santiago de Compostela is, in itself, an open-air museum, with a historic quarter that was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO on 4 December 1985. In [...]
