The Camino del Norte and Primitivo are alternatives to the Camino Frances, offering more mountains, Basque cuisine, and tranquility.

For more than 1,000 years, pilgrims have been walking to Santiago in northern Spain where the remains of St. James the apostle are believed to be buried. A cathedral was built over the site of the ...

The rhythmic crunch of my hiking boots on the gravel lulls me into a reverie, as the October sunrise backlights the grasses along the trail and casts a warm glow over the fields in Spain. I’m walking ...

The medieval pilgrim trail has been revitalized by a new generation of voyagers. These days do people really believe that the apostle James, a fisherman from the Holy Land, was buried at Santiago? Get ...

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