http://www.gregspurgin.net/walking-the-camino-de-santiago/2010/09/24/day-29-santa-catalina-de-somoza-to-foncebadon/ Greg and Judy's Camino de Santiago pilgrimage across Spain Wed, 27 Mar 2013 19:38:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.1 http://www.gregspurgin.net/walking-the-camino-de-santiago/2010/09/24/day-29-santa-catalina-de-somoza-to-foncebadon/#comment-711 Sun, 28 Aug 2011 05:44:28 +0000 http://www.gregspurgin.net/walking-the-camino-de-santiago/?p=318#comment-711 [...] the camino can take one of any large amount of pilgrimage routes to Santiago de Compostela. Most often, as with most pilgrimages, the Way of Saint James began at one’s home and ended at the pilgrimage site. However a few of the routes are considered main ones. During the Middle Ages, the route was highly traveled. However, the Black Plague, the Protestant Reformation and political instability in 16th-century Europe led to its lessening. By the 1980s, only a few pilgrims arrived in Santiago annually. Since then however the journey has interested a growing number of modern-day pilgrims from around the globe. The route was declared the first European Cultural Route by the Council of Europe in October 1987; it was also named one of UNESCO’s World Heritage Sites.australia camino [...]

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beun camino.

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