Convention Programme

Convention Programme

Colloquium Conference: Routes and Roads

Colloquium Conference: Routes and Roads
12/02/2019
16:00 hs

Immersed in the process of living an experiential journey,  learning to enjoy the journey itself. The question is not to move from one place to another, but rather that the route we make brings us closer to cultures, landscapes or unique monuments.

This table was born with the intention of addressing this phenomenon and also concrete examples of paths that have been created under these premises. Do we observe similarities?

Moderator: Olalla Gómez, La Voz de Galicia


You can see the conference at the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oN18zp7zeT0

Speakers

Jorge Daries

Jorge Daries, an economist and a renowned expert in strategic planning of destinations and design of tourist products, is a great champion of the so-called "scenic routes". Traveling, for him, is not just about reaching a destination. Why can not the path itself be destiny? It is a question that we can extrapolate to the Camino de Santiago: Can anyone think that this myriad route is limited to covering a distance to embrace the Apostle?

O Camiño dos Faros is a 200-kilometer hiking trail that links Malpica with Fisterra bordering the Atlantic and linking the main points of interest of the Costa da Morte. Promoted by a private non-profit association, in less than a decade it has managed to establish itself as a recognizable tourism product. The desire of Cristina Alonso, president of the association and raised in the lighthouse of Cabo Vilán, is that the O Camiño dos Faros lasts.

Concha Allut

Portus Apostoli, an entity that promotes and disseminates the historical and cultural heritage of Noia, has been carrying out since 2010 a whole series of actions aimed at a very specific goal: to ensure that the English Way along the Muros and Noia estuary is recognized as a route Jacobean official. Precisely 'The Compostela by sea' will be the axis of the intervention in Fairway of Concha Allut, technique of the Council of Noia.

Carlos da Barreira ( Geira Arrieros Way)

Based on the discovery of a document dating from 1589, and after years of research, he is working for the homologation of the official Jacobean route of the Geira Romana Arrieiros route, also known as Camino Miñoto Ribeiro. The Camiño dos Arrieiros goes from Braga to Santiago and has a distance of 240 km. It crosses the border through the natural park of Geres-Xurés in Portela do Homem and crosses a total of fourteen Galician municipalities in the provinces of Ourense, Pontevedra and A Coruña passing through places such as Lobios, Ribadavia, Pazos de Arenteiro, A Estrada or Pontevea.