Appreciating Europe's Cultural and Historical Heritage Through Trekking
If you have walked any of these routes and have stories, route reports, photos or personal reflections from your Caminos that you would like to share with us we would like to hear from you.
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Introduction (historical background) The Camino Sanabrés is 368km long, starting in Granja de Moreruela, in Zamorra, to Santiago via Ourense. Ourense to Santiago represents the last 100 km of this Camino. It starts from where the Cistercians had chosen to built their first monastery in 1143 on the site given to them by Emperor Alfonso …
XirCammini are re-launching the ancient Universal Peace Walk of 1543 AD. Once launched, the walk will be complete with a pilgrim passport and certificate for independent individual or group hikers. What Malta lacks in vast expanses of natural beauty it makes up for it in historical heritage. This will be a walk back in time …
INTRODUCTION There are catalysts, ebbs and flows to ancient pilgrimage practice. For Santiago 2 of the earliest dynamos generating momentum for the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela were the The Ummayyed occupation of Andalusia (Arab Spain) as far East as Autun (Roman/Celtic Augustodunum) and Marseilles in France in the 1st millennium. In Spain, the stories …
INTRODUCTION As the old saying goes, “All roads lead to Rome.” This is also to a great extent true with Santiago de Compostela with so many European trails being re-created (or having been recreated) from all ancient kingdoms, princedoms, dukedoms or bishopric states Santiago-bound. Within this context there is also the discussion of which is …
INTRODUCTION The Via Francigena from Canterbury to Rome was first traversed and documented by Bishop Sigeric in 990 AD to receive his Bishopric Cloak from Pope Paul XV. it was historically known as the Iter Francorum, the Lombard Way or Chemin des Anglois. In medieval times the Franks and the Normans re-established and expanded upon …