Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Journeys through here in Santiago de Compostela

Every curated route, theme and story in the Atlas that passes through Santiago de Compostela. None of them was written to fill this page.

1 curated route through Santiago de Compostela, drawn end to end on the same projection as every other map here. Drawn from Natural Earth 1:110m admin 0 countries, public domain.

Camino & Sacred Europe

The long jump west, and the last hundred kilometres walked in from Sarria.

15 days

Sacred Europe

The end of the Camino, where people still arrive on foot every afternoon.

Theme

What a pilgrimage is for when you do not believe

Three hundred thousand people a year walk to Santiago. Most of them do not describe the reason as religious, and the Camino has absorbed that without much difficulty.

8 min

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