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8 Tips for doing the Camino de Santiago with your dog
27 July 2018The Camino is an unforgettable experience for anyone who decides to follow the yellow arrows to Compostela. Doing it accompanied by your best friend will undoubtedly be an experience that will change your life and will unite you even more. However, we must recognize that the Camino with your dog is a complex journey that you have to prepare before for enjoy together one of the best moments of your life.
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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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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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The Way of St. Andrew in Scotland, an Atlantic Custom
17 September 2015The example of the Way of St. James has opened up more than one route beyond continental Europe. While we have previously written about how the Jacobean example has reached as far as Japan, today we focus on an initiative in another Celtic country: Scotland.
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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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Maps of the Camino de Santiago: Game of the Goose
11 August 2015The secret maps became more sophisticated over the millennial and any route known for the heroic years of the Middle Ages official maps available and those a bit "cryptic". Among the maps of Camino Santiago it stands, especially the popular Game of the Goose a continental version for Snake and Ladders.
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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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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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"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.
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Kumano Kodo pilgrimage in the Empire of the Rising Sun
20 April 2015Fairway is the forum for pilgrimages. This phenomenon has the quality of universalism: it happens in any human community, wherever it is established, anywhere on the planet. Today we talk about the way Kumano Kodo, the most important pilgrimage route from Japan. We choose this path because it represents the human spirit like no touring a way to order thoughts and spirit. A road in the Far East that has its counterpart in the far West, such as Santiago and Finisterre.
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Exposure El Camino. The origin
10 April 2015A City of Culture in Compostela offers up to 13 September 2015 the possibility of "a journey that brings us to the minute one, the seed, the root cause of a historical and cultural phenomenon that continues to this day: the pilgrimage ".