36 Astorga to Rabanal del Camino
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How long is the Camino De Santiago? | CaminoWays.com
How long is the Camino De Santiago? is quite a common question. The answer is simple and complex at the same time.
The easiest answer is the Camino De Santiago is as long or as short as you want it to be. There are many routes and many different starting points. In fact, the most popular Camino de Santiago starting point is the town of Sarria, some 100km away from Santiago de Compostela, along the so-called French Way. Walking over 100km means they can apply to receive a Compostela certificate when arriving in Santiago.
The French Way, or Camino Francés (as seen in The Way the movie), is the most famous and better known Camino de Santiago route. It starts in Saint Jean Pied de Port, at the foot of the Pyrenees, and covers nearly 900km all the way to Santiago de Compostela, in Galicia. Over 22,000 pilgrims started the Camino de Santiago in Saint Jean Pied de Port in 2012, according to statistics from the Pilgrims Office in Santiago, making it the second most popular starting point.
However, many other Camino de Santiago routes converge in Saint Jean Pied de Port, such as the Le Puy Way, the Vezelay Way and the Camino coming from Paris and Tours for example. This means, you could add another few hundred kilometres to your Camino experience before even reaching Saint Jean!
In addition there are other Camino de Santiago trails heading to Santiago from other parts of the Peninsula: the Portuguese Way starting in Lisbon, for example, the Northern Way starting in the Basque coast or the English Way, starting in the port city of Ferrol, in Galicia. The longest Camino de Santiago trail is the Via de la Plata, starting in the city of Seville, in the South of Spain.
So how long is the Camino De Santiago? the definite answer is that it is up to you!
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Camino Day 10
A 16.5km rough road today from Rabanal del Camino to Acebo. A beautiful new albergue where we could nurse our blisters !!
CAMINO FRANCÉS (FRENCH WAY) STAGE 21 RABANAL DEL CAMINO - MOLINASECA - PONFERRADA
Those interested in acquiring the complete narrative of the pilgrimage to the French Way, both in digital form as in print edition, can access the site below:
Aqueles interessados em adquirir o relato completo da peregrinação ao Caminho Francês, tanto na forma digital quanto em edição impressa, podem acessar o site abaixo:
Day 26 Camino De Santiago. Full Journey. Astorga-Foncebadón 26K A beautiful day includes chocolate
Top rated documented journey showing El Camino De Santiago-Frances.
In this video I see the landscape continue to change and feel the frost in the air. My spirits were up, my body healing and feet feeling better. The stone buildings in the ancient villages amaze me. Brilliant stone puzzles. Small doors perfect for Frodo. I walked by 1/2 mile of wooden crosses stuck in the wire fence, a beautiful thing. I enjoyed every step and every breath. I really loved the village of Foncebadon. Wow. It was like going into a time warp with how primitive it was.
I also saw a poem on a piece of slate:
last night as i lay sleeping
i dreamt-marvelous error!-
that i had a beehive here inside my heart
and the golden bees were making
white combs and sweet honey
from my old failures.
~antonio machado
spanish poet.
LOVE!!
I explored and loved every minute of the crisp cold air, the view of the mountains and the path I am walking on.
Counting my blessings every day. Thanks for the love, Alaskan Pilgrim - Jeanee
34-35 Astorga, Spain
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Camino de Santiago || Day 14 || Viana to Logroño
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Madrid-Ponferrada: los 6 lugares de Castilla y León que deberías conocer
Viajando por la Autovía A6 camino de Galicia, encontramos toda una serie de lugares que merece la pena visitar. Es una lástima que esta vida que nos lleva a toda velocidad de un sitio para otro nos impida a veces disfrutar las maravillas que el camino nos ofrece.
Hemos seleccionado 6 paradas obligadas en la comunidad de Castilla-León tan bonitas que es increible que no sean mucho más conocidas. Así que te proponemos un viaje sin prisa entre Madrid y Ponferrada, parando en al menos 6 sitios que te sorprenderán: Arévalo, La mota del marqués, Urueña, Astorga, Ponferrada y el paraje de las médulas.
Por supuesto que había muchos más sitios interesantes, como La granja de San Ildefonso, Medina del Campo, Tordesillas, Benavente, las lagunas de Villafáfila... Pero ese será otro viaje.
El CAMINO DE SANTIAGO Hospitaleros Welcome
Refuge, refugio, albergue (del peregrino), pilgrim hostel these are all terms for the pilgrim shelters along The Way of St James. What are they? Where are they? What are they like? Are they all huge, noisy, crammed dormitories with snoring, snuffling pilgrims? What are the beds like, and the showers? Do they give you meals?
Welcome, you will get a sense of what the volunteer hospitalero service and the pilgrim albergues are all about.
This film directed by Jose Alvarez is the second documentary in the series about this popular Northern Spanish route.
Pilgrim shelters - albergues - are places for pilgrims (not tourists) to sleep overnight while on their pilgrimage. Found in almost every town and village, they follow in the thousand year tradition of providing shelter to pilgrims on their way to the tomb of Saint James in Compostela.
They are found in restored churches, halls, renovated barns, private homes and many other structures. In Hospital de San Nicolas, 10 people sleep on mattresses in the loft of a restored hermitage church. The monks wash the pilgrims' feet - following the tradition of Maundy Thursday when Christ washed the feet of his disciples - you have a pilgrim blessing and sing pilgrim songs at dinner by lamplight.
In Manjarin, a donativo albergue, 10 people sleep in a small stone barn on mattresses laid out on a wooden platform. There is no running water, toilet or electricity. Tomas Le Paz is a Knight Templar who conducts a Templarios ceremony every morning at 11am (when it is 12pm in Jersualem). He provides an evening meal -cooked on a gas stove - and a breakfast. He also provides tea or coffee to passing and visiting pilgrims throughout the day.
Some modern albergues are like university campus digs with all mod-cons including vending machines, cafeteria, bar and computer room for internet. Not much atmosphere and little camaraderie with other pilgrims. There are over 120 pilgrim albergues (refuges) on the Camino Frances.
Some are provided by the church, some by the local government or municipality; others are owned and run by volunteers from different Confraternities of St James around the world such as the 'donativo' Gaucelmo albergue in Rabanal which is owned and run by the CSJ - UK.
There are albergues that are owned by individuals or families who have devoted their lives to providing shelter to pilgrims, such as the refuge -Ave Fenix- at Villafranca del Bierzo which is run by Jesus Jato and his family for the last 50 years. Most of the church, municipal and confraternity owned albergues are donativo donation.
(Text by Amawalker)