Location: Galicia in Spain
Nearest Airport:
Santiago de Compostela (Ryanair) at 16
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Nearest Train:
Santiago de Compostela at 3
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Nearest Motorway:
Santiago Sur at 2
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Nearest Beach:
beach at 50.0
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Car: recommended
The Camino de Santiago de Compostela, also known in English as The Way of St James, is a collection of old pilgrimage routes which cover all Europe. They all have Santiago de Compostela in north west Spain as their final destination. For more than 1000 years pilgrims have been walking along the Camino de Santiago.
The main route, featured here, is more commonly known as the Camino Frances,. This part of the Camino de Santiago traditionally starts in St Jean Pied de Port and finishes in Santiago de Compostela about 780km later, after traveling the breadth of Northern Spain.(In Santiago you can collect your Compostela) However you can start anywhere and even continue past Santiago to the sea at Finisterre. Finisterre was thought to be the end of the world in medieval times.