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Map of Pilgrims Way near Titsey, Surrey.The upper route, on the brow of the North Downs, is the ancient trackway (note the archaeological finds at the top left); the lower, almost in the valley, is the route surmised by the Ordnance Survey in the 19th century A section of the lower route, eroded into the slope, in Surrey
The Camino de Santiago (Latin: Peregrinatio Compostellana, lit. ' Pilgrimage of Compostela '; Galician: O Camiño de Santiago), [1] or in English the Way of St. James, is a network of pilgrims' ways or pilgrimages leading to the shrine of the apostle James in the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia in northwestern Spain, where tradition holds that the remains of the apostle are buried.
A route marker painted on an old nautical measured mile on the Cantabrian Coast.. The Northern Way (Spanish: Camino del Norte) (also known as the "Liébana Route") is an 817 km, five-week coastal route from Basque Country at Irún, near the French border, and follows the northern coastline of Spain to Galicia where it heads inland towards Santiago joining the Camino Francés at Arzúa.
Route maps of the Pilgrim's Way can be downloaded from the main website, and the committee has approved a guide book [18] - The Pilgrim's Way / Taith Pererin Gogledd Cymru by Mike Stevens, published by local publishers Kittiwake Books. Chris Potter has produced an up-to-date guide book on behalf of the North Wales Pilgrim's Way Committee.
The English Way or Camino Inglés (Galician: Camiño Inglés and Spanish: Camino Inglés) is one of the paths of the Camino de Santiago.The Spanish section begins in the Galician port cities of Ferrol (110 kilometres or 68 miles) or A Coruña (75 kilometres or 47 miles), with multiple additional sections in the UK and Ireland, and continues south to Santiago de Compostela.
The route has been growing rapidly in popularity in recent years, with corresponding improvements to waymarking and thanks to the provision of hostel accommodation for pilgrims (the so-called albergues). In 2016, 12,089 pilgrims, representing 4.35% of the total completing the Camino de Santiago in that year, walked the Camino Primitivo.
Sign showing the path near Ivrea, Italy. In the Middle Ages, Via Francigena was the major pilgrimage route to Rome from the north.The route was first documented as the "Lombard Way", and was first called the Iter Francorum (the "Frankish Route") in the Itinerarium sancti Willibaldi of 725, a record of the travels of Willibald, bishop of Eichstätt in Bavaria.
Basilica of Our Lady of the Angels – the pilgrims walk from all around the country with the goal of arriving on 2 August to the Basilica in Cartago, that date is the feast day of the feast day of Our Lady of the Angels of the Portiuncula (on which the Portiuncola Indulgence could be gained) and a national holiday due to the pilgrimage.