Marta Lois González
Councilor for Equality, Economic Development and Tourism of the City Council of Santiago de Compostela
Councilor responsible for Equality, Economic Development and Tourism, as well as third deputy mauyor in the municipality of Santiago de Compostela.
The topics in which she usually works are related to public policies, gender equality and the search for and ordered tourist model integreated into the urban and social structure of the city. She is part of a broad group of research on gender and politics with teachers and researchers from several universities in the state. In addition, she is a member of the Armela group, which analyzes the impact of the current economic crisis on the development and guarantee of social rights and equal opportunities among citizens.
Presentation: Santiago, universal destination
The Camino de Santiago was born in the Middle Ages as a European-level path directly linked to a concrete religious conception of life and the world. For centuries, in those who lived times of splendor but also periods of decadence, the Way was always a pilgrimage way, with a clear European and Catholic sense.
For most of the twentieth century, the Camino de Santiago was hardly a historical memory with hardly any transcendence in the present. But at the end of the 20th century a resurgence of the Camino de Santiago began to take place, however, it introduces two novelties regarding the original essence of the Way: on the one hand the Way goes from being a European phenomenon to being a worldwide phenomenon, with pilgrims from more than 150 countries on five continents; and on the other hand, the Camino goes from being a pilgrimage way linked to Catholicism to being a spiritual route in a broad sense of the term, traveled by people of different religious beliefs and even agnostics or even atheists.
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