Silver Route https://blog.caminodesantiago.gal Mon, 17 Dec 2018 12:02:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 /wp-content/uploads/2026/07/cropped-favicon-xacobeo2027-32x32.png Silver Route https://blog.caminodesantiago.gal 32 32 The Vía de la Plata has a new hostel for pilgrims in the city of Ourense https://blog.caminodesantiago.gal/en/the-via-de-la-plata-has-a-new-hostel-for-pilgrims-in-the-city-of-ourense/ https://blog.caminodesantiago.gal/en/the-via-de-la-plata-has-a-new-hostel-for-pilgrims-in-the-city-of-ourense/#respond Mon, 10 Dec 2018 09:00:52 +0000 http://blog.caminodesantiago.gal/?p=9522 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 with all the rules on accessibility, elaborating on the objectives of the Tourism Accessibility Plan of the Camino de Santiago. This infrastructure, Ourense has recovered a disused building in a strategic location that will allow pilgrims to enjoy the city during their stay.

The building bears the name of Eligio Rivas Quintas, one of the pioneers in the study and dissemination of the values associated with the Camino, particularly, to the Vía de la Plata or Mozarabic route.

]]> https://blog.caminodesantiago.gal/en/the-via-de-la-plata-has-a-new-hostel-for-pilgrims-in-the-city-of-ourense/feed/ 0 The Regional Minister of Culture and Tourism met with the mayors of the municipalities of the Via de la Plata https://blog.caminodesantiago.gal/en/the-regional-minister-of-culture-and-tourism-met-with-the-mayors-of-the-municipalities-of-the-via-de-la-plata/ https://blog.caminodesantiago.gal/en/the-regional-minister-of-culture-and-tourism-met-with-the-mayors-of-the-municipalities-of-the-via-de-la-plata/#respond Wed, 28 Nov 2018 11:28:12 +0000 http://blog.caminodesantiago.gal/?p=9411 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 promote its conditioning, improvement and signposting, 3 million euros will be invested to enable this route to arrive in an optimal condition to the celebration of Xacobeo 21.

The objective of the meeting was to inform the general lines of work, since the drafting of the intervention project is being finalised. After its completion, it will be sent to each of the city councils of the Via de la Plata—more than thirty in the provinces of Ourense, Pontevedra and A Coruña—in order to take into account their possible observations.

This gives continuity to the initiatives developed during this time in the hostels of A Bandeira (Silleda), A Gudiña, Faramello (Teo), Cea, Xinzo de Limia, Riós, Verín, Vilar de Barrio, Vedra or Sandiás. Likewise, the first edition of the Galicia Parabens award also went to the Vía de la Plata, recognising the beautification works promoted by the City Council of Boqueixón around the Pico Sacro, one of the symbolic references of the Jacobean pilgrimage.

Along these lines, it is planned the imminent intervention in the hostel of Bendoiro, in Lalín, whose repair was contracted for an amount in excess of 250,000 euros. This investment will make it possible to work on the illnesses that it has been dragging and that caused special deterioration in different parts of the structure, roofs, carpentries, façades and terraces.

It is also planned to prepare or build a hostel along the Via de la Plata to meet the needs of pilgrims on horseback, one of the options for getting to Compostela. In this regard, it should be borne in mind that, since the approval of the Master Plan for the Camino de Santiago, the Government of Galicia has been working on the specialisation of the Via de la Plata as an itinerary preferably specialised in this modality.

In recent years, the Vía de la Plata has had a constant influx of pilgrims that has led it to exceed 9,000, with a significant growth margin ahead. 60% of them are Spanish, although other nationalities also stand out, such as Portuguese, Germans, Italians, French, Americans, British, Dutch and Belgians.

Currently, the network of public hostels dependent on the Regional Ministry of Culture and Tourism has 13 hostels and more than 400 bed-places. In recent years, the S. A. de Xestión del Plan Xacobeo has taken on the direct management of some of them, which were ceded by the city councils.

The actions planned on the Vía de la Plata for 2019 extend the scope of those already carried out on the Camino Francés in 2015, on the Camino del Norte and the Camino Primitivo in 2016, on the Camino Inglés and on the Camino de Fisterra y Muxía in 2017 and on the Camino Portugués and on the Camino Portugués de la Costa in 2018. The programme will be completed in 2020, in time for Xacobeo 21, with works on the Camino de Invierno and the Mar de Arousa and Río Ulla Route.

]]> https://blog.caminodesantiago.gal/en/the-regional-minister-of-culture-and-tourism-met-with-the-mayors-of-the-municipalities-of-the-via-de-la-plata/feed/ 0 Welcoming and Hospitality on the Camino de Santiago. Photographs by Manuel G. Vicente (Seville) https://blog.caminodesantiago.gal/en/welcoming-and-hospitality-on-the-camino-de-santiago-photographs-by-manuel-g-vicente-sevilla/ https://blog.caminodesantiago.gal/en/welcoming-and-hospitality-on-the-camino-de-santiago-photographs-by-manuel-g-vicente-sevilla/#respond Thu, 28 Sep 2017 08:03:22 +0000 http://blog.caminodesantiago.gal/?p=7527 Read more]]> A creative experience of hospitality and solidarity lived through beside the pilgrims on the Camino de Santiago, in the hostels and at the goal of the Jacobean Pilgrimage.

A shared area of universal values
Hospitality, the welcoming of the pilgrim is a value which for centuries has been considered the cornerstone of the Camino de Santiago. A form of spirituality poetically depicted in the photographs which Manuel G. Vicente took along the Camino, on the route and in hostels during recent decades. The heart-warming welcome is fused with the experience of the encounter, solidarity, friendship and mutual understanding. Added to this are the values of the landscapes, the shared history and culture.

An experience of communication and affection
As the days pass, communication at several levels occurs on the Camino. In the first place, the pilgrim communicates with himself, the interior language is essential in the pilgrimage experience. Introspection leads to reflexive, personalised self-construction, in which each person recreates his experiences through memory and affection.

In the second place, communication is established with the Camino itself and, finally, with the companions on the route, with the “hospitaleros” and the local people. The mental or spiritual space of the Camino de Santiago, evoked and recreated, is shaped through the affectivity of the person experiencing it; towns, cities, historical places and natural landscapes assume affective values in this spontaneous construction. A sensitive framework in which fertile communication takes place among the pilgrims, their natural environment and other persons.

Venue: Faculty of Geography and History
Addresse: San Fernando nº 4. Seville

Dates: 3 October – 28 October, 2017
Timetable: from Monday to Friday, 9:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m. Saturday, 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Organiser: S.A. de Xestión do Plan Xacobeo. Turismo de Galicia. Xunta de Galicia
Collaborators: Asociación de Amigos del Camino de Santiago Vía de la Plata de Sevilla and Faculty of Geography and History.

]]> https://blog.caminodesantiago.gal/en/welcoming-and-hospitality-on-the-camino-de-santiago-photographs-by-manuel-g-vicente-sevilla/feed/ 0 Lecture: ‘Celebration of the Hispano-Mozarab Eucharist from the Mystagogy of the Fathers of the Church’ https://blog.caminodesantiago.gal/en/lecture-celebration-of-the-hispano-mozarab-eucharist-from-the-mystagogy-of-the-fathers-of-the-church/ https://blog.caminodesantiago.gal/en/lecture-celebration-of-the-hispano-mozarab-eucharist-from-the-mystagogy-of-the-fathers-of-the-church/#respond Mon, 19 Dec 2016 09:17:44 +0000 http://blog.caminodesantiago.gal/?p=6114 Read more]]> Speaker: Rev. Salvador Aguilar López

Date: 29 December

Time: 8.00 p.m.

Location: Headquarters of the Friends of the Way of St. James Association of Seville (C/ Castilla, 82, local)

Organized by: Friends of the Way of St. James Association of Seville

The term Mozarab is often used without understanding its specific meaning (or its relationship to the world of the Way of St. James). When referring to its living and continuously evolving liturgical aspect, this lack of knowledge and understanding can be substantial. The speaker will discuss both the Easter mystery in the form of the Mozarabic Rite and its meaning. This will help those who will be attending the commemoration of the Translation of the Apostle St. James – to be held on 30 December at Santiago el Mayor Church – to understand and prepare for participation in the Eucharist. Father Aguilar, a native of Málaga who trained in Toledo, specializes in the Eastern and Mozarabic rites. He is an expert in liturgy and currently holds a post in Rome.

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]]> https://blog.caminodesantiago.gal/en/lecture-celebration-of-the-hispano-mozarab-eucharist-from-the-mystagogy-of-the-fathers-of-the-church/feed/ 0 VIII Photography Competition https://blog.caminodesantiago.gal/en/viii-photography-competition/ https://blog.caminodesantiago.gal/en/viii-photography-competition/#respond Fri, 07 Oct 2016 10:10:50 +0000 http://wp-camino.webturga.es/?p=5858 Convener: Asociación Cultural Amigos Vía Plata – Camiño Mozárabe Ourense

Collaboration: S.A. de Xestión do Plan Xacobeo. Xunta de Galicia

Deadline: The deadline for submitting entries will be October 18, 2016

Contact: 988 391 110 – www.viaprataourense.ceo.es – viaprataourense@ceo.es

Terms of the call: VIII Photography Competition

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