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Silver Way
14 March 2018Each of the roads that lead to Santiago de Compostela is perfect for a type of pilgrim. Those who seek a challenge on their route or wish to cross a mountainous landscape, choose the Primitive Way; those who prefer to meet hundreds of pilgrims on their trip, opt for the French Way, and those who wish to discover all Spain take the Silver Way. Do you want to know why it's perfect for you? In Fairway we have the answer for you!
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The most surprising pilgrims of 2017
26 January 2018The Camino de Santiago closed 2017 with numbers that break records once again. What can we say? The Camino sums more and more adepts that, this year, exceeded 300,000 pilgrims arriving from all over the world. As expected, among all of them, there are those who walk to Compostela for religious, touristic and personal reasons; as well as those who comes by foot, by bike or even by wheelchair. Therefore, from Fairway we wanted to collect the most amazing stories that will fill you with emotion, inspiration and amazingness.
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Juan Antonio Naveira and patrimonial system in Galicia
18 March 2016The mod. General Cultural heritage, Juan Antonio, exhibited is the patrimonial system in Galicia and has been its evolution.
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10 February 2016
An exploration spirit and the love for nature have always been present in the Susan Mann's life and helped her to discover Spain and Galicia through the Camino de Santiago.
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Antonio Catalán, 25 years on the Way
18 January 2016Antonio Catalán tells us about his experiences on the Camino de Santiago, which is considered a big fan, and his point of view from some areas for the improvement and future of the Camino.
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Mari Luz Viñas and "El Reto del Camino"
15 January 2016The dominican Mari Luz Viñas talks about her emotional experience doing the Camino de Santiago in "El Reto del Camino", after running 790km in only 15 days.
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From Santiago de Shikoku, the Way is circular
6 September 2015One of the leitmotifs of the Fairway congress –and, of course, of this blog– is promoting the universality of pilgrimages. It is no longer surprising that human communities repeated the same phenomenon down through the ages and in different territories.
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An interfaith pilgrimage to give a message of peace to the world
31 August 2015From August 30 a group of 120 people will travel 107 kilometers from the French Way in its course by León. The particularity of this large group of pilgrims is that it is composed of people of many faiths: Jews, Muslims, Catholics, Hindus and Baha'is will complete the road to make a plea for dialogue and peace.
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The legend of the Grail myth for a globalised Camino de Santiago
5 August 2015The Holy Grail myth, one of the first stories that any inhabitant of the continent could meet and many churches and holy sites claimed to possess. Of course, the pilgrimage route also part of the Grail legend, which made its com overall myth to the Camino de Santiago.
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Compostela blues: how affect the Camino to our state of mind?
14 July 2015You know when you start wandering but what is left behind when we went to the pilgrim? It seems a superficial issue but there are few that speak of post-Camino blues so the question arises: How does our spirit remains after doing the Camino de Santiago?
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The Camino de Santiago is facing globalization
7 July 2015News of the process of globalization faced by all the Ways to Santiago have happened throughout the week. From a headline announcing that 36,000 pilgrims reached the city of the Apostle in June to the statement of Camino del Norte and Primitivo as a World Heritage Site by Unesco or the anticipation that this 2015 will be more people on pilgrimage to the city ever. It seems that more than two decades after that Xacobeo 93, the global popularization of the Camino de Santiago seems certain
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Amigos del Camino de Santiago, the community wants to remain
10 June 2015Last weekend was held in Santiago de Compostela the first international meeting in Galicia of the Association of Friends of the Camino de Santiago. A forum where the associations born around the phenomenon of pilgrimages found a place to reflect on the tasks and challenges facing the way friends in their defense of the roads to Compostela. The main challenge was diagnosed generational change because the Friends of the Camino de Santiago is a community that wants to remain in time.
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"The Way’s Challenge" athletic prowess to help sick children
13 May 2015The marathon athlete Mariluz Viñas will run along the French Way for a good cause: raise funds for St. Jude Foundation which Helps children with cancer in her country, the Dominican Republic. “The Way’s Challenge", is the name that receives this charity run presented yesterday May 12 in Room Eisenman of the City of Culture.