"For centuries and centuries, indeed since the very beginning of Christendom many pilgrims have followed Santiago's (St. James's) footsteps across Spain and they still continue to arrive in Santiago de Compostela.
El Camino de Santiago means freedom, culture, sport, nature, tradition, challenge, peace but above all it is freedom. Numerous emperors like Charlemagne, popes like Calixtus II, kings like Alfonso II, brave knights like the Spanish "El Cid" or the Knights Templar, noblemen, thousands of priests, farmers, beggars, travelers, the healthy, the sick, the blind, the lame, the rich and the homeless; all of them were pilgrims and..." More
These are the initial lines on the website www.caminosantiagodecompostela.com which I wanted to reproduce here in order to invite you to visit the website. This blog will be dedicated to El Camino de Santiago and will complement the information given in the aforementioned website.
To begin with, I posted the poem Ithaca by Cavafy, both in Spanish and English, which in my opinion gives a perfect idea of the meaning of El Camino.
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