At the Galician Council’s press conference today, the President of the Galician Government, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, announced that the Council of Europe was being recognised as Ambassador of the Way of Saint James. This title was created in 2013 to distinguish the work of individuals and institutions that have contributed to raising awareness and publicising … Read more
The International Pilgrim Welcome Centre, which used to be a nursing home on Rúa das Carretas and was designed by local architect Jesús López de Rego, now has an enormous new space in which pilgrims, arriving in the capital of Galicia to collect the Compostela (accreditation of the pilgrimage to the Tomb of St. James), … Read more
The Xunta de Galicia has just convened the new edition of the 2019 Camino de Santiago Awards, as published today in the Diario Oficial de Galicia (DOG) journal, which recognises progress and commitment in the Jacobean field of various groups at both national and international level, including public and private actions designed to conserve and … Read more
The Galician Ministry of Culture and Tourism has just submitted a tender for the contract of repair, restoration and preventive conservation works on the ethnographic complex of pallozas (traditional huts) at Cebreiro, in the municipality of Pedrafita do Cebreiro, at the amount of 180,000 euros. The main works will comprise the replacement of the thatched … Read more
This infrastructure, of 647 square meters and with capacity for 42 pilgrims, will contribute to making the city of Ourense more able to take advantage of the opportunity of the Xacobeo 21. He also recalled that the network of hostels of the Camino make up 70 establishments throughout the various official itineraries This project complies … Read more
The Regional Minister of Culture and Tourism, Roman Rodríguez, met today with the mayors of the municipalities of the Via de la Plata, before whom he presented the project of comprehensive action that his Department will carry out next year 2019 in this Jacobean itinerary, the largest in the Galician Autonomous Community. In order to … Read more