Larsen was completing the 500-mile walking journey from the edge of France to the edge of Spain, better known as the Camino de Santiago, or The Way of St. James in English.

For 44 days, I walked El Camino de Santiago de Compostella. "The way to Santiago along the field of stars." The standard icebreaker along the dirt path is simply, expectedly, "Why are you walking?" ...

We began the Camino in St. Jean Pied de Port, France on June 2, and completed the course in Santiago, Spain on July 15. The trail’s distance is 500 miles although we skipped some monotonous ...

To walk the most popular leg of the Camino, the last 100 km from Sarria to Santiago de Compostela, pilgrims should fly into Madrid and take a bus or train to their starting point, Sarria.

MaryLou Herrman marked her 60th birthday by walking Spain's Camino de Santiago. ... The Camino de Santiago is a walk ending at Santiago de Compostela, where, according to Catholic lore, ...

The Camino de Santiago reached its modern-day record in 2022, with more than 438,000 pilgrims walking to what many believe to be the final resting place of the apostle Saint James.

For more than a millennium, the Camino de Santiago (the Way of St. James) has attracted pilgrims, many seeking self-reflection and spiritual insight as they journey hundreds of miles to Santiago ...

In 2023, nearly half a million people walked the Camino de Santiago in Spain. About 40 percent of those walked for purely religious reasons, according to statistics released by the pilgrims’ office.

Few know about the vastly more-meditative, nearby Camino dos Faros, or Lighthouse Way, along the wild and deserted Finisterre coast that's known as "the end of the earth".