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For 1100 years,
pilgrims have taken up staff, gourd and cockleshell for
the journey to Santiago de Compostela. As the story goes,
after the Apostle St. James was martyred in the Holy Land,
his remains were brought to Galicia in northwest Spain
where they lay undisturbed for 800 years. When the tomb
was discovered in the 9th century, the King of
Galicia ordered a church built on the site and the
pilgrimages began. The fame of Santiago's powers
spread, and by the 12th century the Camino de
Santiago was the busiest road in the Christian world.
There are actually several Caminos converging to
Santiago from various places in Spain and Europe. One
popular departure point used to be the Tour St. Jacques
("Santiago Tower") in Paris. 
The paths are
marked with tiles in the shape of a cockle shell, or
sometimes with simple yellow arrows painted on posts,
walls and trees. The best known path, and also the
busiest, is known as the "French Route", which
runs from the French border to Galicia across Northern
Spain, through the Rioja wine country, El Cid's
Burgos, medieval towns in Old Castile, by ancient
monasteries, shrine sites and thatch-roofed Celtic
villages, through ghost villages, stands of eucalyptus,
fields of corn, alongside rivers and across bucolic
valleys. A couple of Saranjan staffers also recently
walked a less traveled path that runs north from Portugal
and offers other wonders along a shorter route.
Saranjan Tours
offers several predesigned itineraries and tours along the
Camino, and can make all arrangements for your own special
experience, whether you want to walk the whole route, or
mostly see it from the comfort of an air conditioned
vehicle. Note that accommodations can be very tight and
require as much advance notice as possible.
A deluxe tour can be arranged at custom times at your convenience.
We can also arrange longer, more active tours at custom
dates, see our sample
Camino
walking tour,
Camino by bike tour,
Camino by bike short tour,
Camino 4 Pax tour
Practical information about the Camino de Santiago.
