The cathedral’s façade and towers have had several reforms since the 16th century. In the 18th century it was decided to build the current Baroque façade with large...
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Tag Archives: hiking
The Cathedral’s Just Around the Corner!
Do you ever just want to get there? Do you ever get the feeling that the closer you get, you’re farther away? Can you see your final...
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Mount Joy…
… so appropriate!! The last hill and the last stop before arrival in Santiago, about an hour away. Monte de Gozo, or Mount Joy, was once the...
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Lavacolla, Spain
I, and I suspect my friend, Nancy, as well as many visitors to the churches and cemeteries of El Camino de Santiago, had opportunities for comtemplation along...
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A Rúa to Santiago, 21 km
Our final 13 miles!!! Leaving A Rúa through more countryside and wooded trails. We’d be passing through the hamlets of O Pino, O Pedrouzo, Amenal, San Paio,...
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Forest Through the Trees
Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there will be, along with the feelings of curiosity...
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Fitting Words and a Celebratory Moment
As soon as we saw this graffiti, we and several other pilgrims in the vicinity, were singing this song by The Proclaimers! In fact, some of us...
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Wisteria Along the Way
Great colors and the amethyst is my birthstone! ...
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30 Km to Go!!
There’s a light at the end of the tunnel and it’s not a train! Both of us had to capture this mile post in Outeiro. We were...
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Dew-Dropped Pink Rose in Oil
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Calla Lilies in Oil
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Arzúa to A Rúa, Spain
Only two more days of hiking, this leg being the second to last of our journey on El Camino de Santiago – 17.5 km, or about 11...
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Scenic Furelos, Spain
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Classic Furelos Image
Probably one of the most often-shot scenes by pilgrims entering the medieval village of Furelos: having exited a wooded section of the Camino trail just around a...
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Making Use of Negative Space
While strolling through Leboreiro, this dark brown, rusted, pair of huge, thick metal plates caught my attention. Perhaps the carved out sections represent the iconic scallop shell...
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