Avoid the crowds and start your Camino de Santiago in the Algarve
Avoid the crowds and start your Camino de Santiago in the Algarve This largely off-road route avoids the pilgrim-clogged ‘classic route’ through France and Spain Discover a secret stretch of a classic pilgrimage Credit: Try Portugal “There are as many caminos as there are pilgrims travelling to Santiago,” anthropologist Nancy Frey writes in her book Pilgrim Stories. That might surprise anyone who thinks there is one definitive route to the supposed burial place of St James at Santiago de Compostela, the third holiest place in the Christian world after Rome and Jerusalem. Theoretica...
Source: telegraph.co.uk