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The Monbus Obradoiro presents the documentary with Petrovic on the Camino
11 October 2018Monbus Obradoiro will present on October 18, Thursday, the documentary 'Aleksandar Aza Petrovic: The Way Ends in Obradoiro', which shows the experience of the former Croatian coach and current coach of Brazil during the five stages he made of the Camino Portuguese between Valença de Minho and Santiago in the past months of May and June.
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5 reasons to walk the Winter Way
14 February 2018If you are planning to do the Camino de Santiago, probably the route of the French Way is the first one that comes to your mind. However, there are other alternatives less piled and just as exciting and beautiful as the Winter Way. If you want to discover all the qualities that make this route an experience to live, keep reading!
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The role of Civil Protection in Santiago de Compostela
5 May 2016As head of Civil Protection Santiago, Begoña del Río has extensive experience in citizen protection and actions in case of emergencies related to the Way.
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Rafael Sanchez Bargiela and the perspective of Xacobeo
30 March 2016Today, we bring you the Fairway intervention of Rafael Sanchez Bargiela about the Camino de Santiago and S.A. of Xestión do Xacobeo Plan.
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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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“Afterways”: What road to take after completing the Camino
5 October 2015The “Afterway” panel features a good number of speakers that have reflected with insight on the effect of the Way of St. James on those undertaking it.“Afterways”: what road to take after completing the Camino.
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A look at the material management of the Ways of St. James
24 September 2015Fairway is also a forum where we will be updated on more earthly matters affecting the Way of St. James: such as the work of preserving and promoting the immense cultural heritage scattered throughout different localities...
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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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Camino de Santiago, a journey to cast off
29 July 2015The Camino de Santiago is a particular route where we face ourselves and our way of being in the world and we ake part of a community for a while so...Should we bring with us this chain of air that holds us to our ordinary “me”? Is it necessary to carry our mobile devices to ensure the connection routine state of affairs? Many pilgrims, especially the US, take this clear: the Camino de Santiago is a journey to cast off.
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The illuminated pilgrimage: four holy places for Buddhism
21 July 2015One of the humanity oldest religions, a mystical phenomenon that escapes of theism, an oriental compendium of wisdom that returns from time to time to seduce more westerners. The philosophy of the Four Noble Truths is not an organized religion like the others but does have some points in common; one of them is the phenomenon of pilgrimages. Today we speak of enlightened pilgrimage: four holy places for Buddhism.
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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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Way to Avalon, a pilgrimage of the past returns to the present
25 June 2015Today we can find celebrations recover the holidays in places where tradition and archaeological evidence indicate a sacred character. For several years, the pagan pilgrimage to Glastonbury is booming; It is the way to Avalon, a pilgrimage of the past returns to the present.
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Shalosh Regalim, a memory's peregrination
15 June 2015The phenomenon of pilgrimages goes beyond a single culture or religion and is subject to political changes. If in a previous post we talked about the ancient tradition of pilgrimage to the shrine of Kumano Kodo, in Japan, today we bring how this is lived in the Jewish tradition. Shalosh Regalim (Hebrew שְׁלֹשֶׁת הַרְגָלִים, the three pilgrimages) summarizes what were the three roads to the temple in Jerusalem that every observant of the Jew law should take over his life. When the temple was destroyed in 70 AD, this obligation of pilgrimage disappeared.
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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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Fairway: a forum with fair to reunite all the Ways to Santiago
29 May 2015The team reunited to make Fairway real could observe, thanks to their implication in Jacobean phenomenon, that the Way to St James includes a lot of experiences: from people which goes on the road to Compostela with a self knowledge purpose to people which want to meet people without a safe zone like the working environment, previously friendship or family relations…but in the end, all the people you meet is a little bit a partner, a friend and a family. Also we count all the people which reach Compostela to enjoy its culture, gastronomy or historical patrimony. That’s how we got the idea of create Fairway: a forum with fair to reunite all the Ways to Santiago.