In Spain, a record-breaking number of pilgrims have attempted the Camino de Santiago (or the Way of St. James), turning the once contemplative pilgrimage or secular hike into a popular tourist ...

The Galician capital may be best known for a certain walking trail, but it’s the soulful, delectable seafood that makes this a destination to race towards, discovers Emma Henderson as she’s taken on a ...

The Camino de Santiago de Compostela ... Once pilgrims complete the pilgrimage, they are given a shell as a reward. In recent decades, interest in the Camino has surged, driven by a desire ...

Participants in the St. Junípero Serra Walking Pilgrimage arrive at Mission San Buenaventura Aug. 11, 2024. This mission is one of the stops on the new summer ‘California Camino’ route.

and now run a hostel for pilgrims. The Camino de Santiago is a network of footpaths that run across western Europe, all converging upon the Cathedral at Santiago de Compostela in northern Spain.

whose remains are traditionally believed to have been buried in Santiago de Compostela, in Galicia, Spain. In the Middle Ages, Compostela was one of the great pilgrimage centers of Christendom and ...

The members of Eberle’s group each left something before Our Lady, much like pilgrims on the Camino de Santiago do at the ... in my case, a shell from the Pacific Ocean) they had carried from ...

Clare is on the Camino de Santiago in Spain ... desire of hiking one of the world’s most famous pilgrimage footpaths, the Camino de Santiago. Translated roughly as The Way of St. James, the ...

Chelsea Leu is a writer and critic whose work has appeared in The Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic and elsewhere.

It’s got elements of a religious pilgrimage but, in stark contrast to northwestern Spain where almost 500,000 registered walkers hiked the Camino de Santiago pilgrim trail last year, I barely ...