All about the Camino de Santiago de Compostela

Turgalicia is responsale for the promoton of Galicia to the rest of the world. The Camino is ofcourse and important part of this promotion.

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Luar na Lubre (more on them at Wikipedia here) is one of the most known groups from Galicia and I thought it would be fitting to add this video to the blog today since it has been raining in Santiago for the last 2 weeks. We need the water…. but some sun would be nice [...]

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A few days ago the new high speed train service (AVE) between Madrid and Barcelona was introduced. Could be useful for someone trying to get to/get home from the camino.
Some more information:
– 17 departures daily Madrid to Barcelona (and another 17 going back)
– Duration: About 2 hours and 40 minutes (speeds up to 300km/h)
– First [...]

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José Alvarez has a production company and has made several pilgrim documentaries on the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. This video is 10 minutes of one of them, Spanish is spoken but there are English subtitles.

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If you have walked the street of Santiago de Compostela old town, you may have heard some blues guitar played by our own Jazz Man. He used to sit in Rua de Vilar, but lately I have seen him on Plaza de Quintana.

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