The Camino de Santiago has existed as a Christian pilgrimage ... “However, the rules are you need to walk at least the last 100 km and get stamps. Other than that, it’s open.

This story appears in the May 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. During the summers of 2012 and 2013, I walked more than a thousand miles on the Camino de Santiago. Also called the Way of ...

I was going on El Camino de Santiago, or the Way of St James. This is a network of pilgrim routes that leads to the city of Santiago de Compostela in north-western Spain. The most popular route ...

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