Alto de Perdon on the Camino de Santiago
Camino de Santiago, Spain
June 26 - August 3, 2018
St John Pied de Port, France, to Santiago de Compostela
Santiago de Compostela to Fisterra, and northward to Muxía
915km
The Camino de Santiago is one of many routes to the tomb of St James, located in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. It is the most popular long distance walking pilgrimage in the world, and I accompanied my husband Sandy Brown as he worked on a new guidebook for this much loved route. Click here to start.
The Route
The idea of walking across a country was enticing to me, so when Sandy said lets go, I went. The Camino di Santiago is one of the most traveled of caminos due to its excellent infrastructure; accommodations, food, water, toilets, and relative ease. This map, a place mat from a restaurant, shows the major towns the route encompasses, but sadly not our start or finish points. We began in St Jean Pied de Port, France, traveled 800km to the great cathedral and celebratory masses in Santiago de Compostela. Many pilgrims stop there, but it was only another three days and 90km to Fisterra, also knows as Finistere, and to the Atlantic coast. I wasn’t about to pass that up. But there’s more. For yet another day and a mere 25kms, we could walk to the desolate and beautiful town of Muxía, and to the church where angels brought the Virgin Mary to help Santiago, aka St James, in evangelizing Spain. All told from June 27 to August 1, we walked 915km or approximately 550 miles.