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- 2002 CF: 2004 from Paris: 2006 VF: 2007 CF: 2009 Aragones, Ingles, Finisterre: 2011 X 2 on CF: 2013 'Caracoles': 2014 CF and Ingles 'Caracoles":2015 Logrono-Burgos (Hospitalero San Anton): 2016 La Douay to Aosta/San Gimignano to Rome:
europapress.es reports that about 300 people will start today from the Cathedral of Santander as progress between Santander and Santiago de Compostela, organized by the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Sport on the occasion of the celebration of Xacobeo 2010. They will travel for twelve days the Camino de Santiago by Northern route.
This is a great place of pilgrimage, organized by the Ministry under the title 'Cantabria on the Road', which will take place from 16 to 27 June and will travel the Camino de Santiago on the coast from Santander to Santiago de Compostela.
With this initiative, included in the program of activities of Cantabria Xacobeo 2010, the Ministry seeks to enhance the way north, the historic pilgrimage route first, earlier known as the Camino de Santiago French, begun in the eleventh century.
85 percent of participants come from Cantabria, although there arrived from Vizcaya, Madrid, Burgos, Murcia, Asturias and Barcelona. Trang Nguyen, a Korean resident in the United States who has traveled only to Spain to participate in the march. Similarly, the meteorologist José Antonio Maldonado, head of the program on the internet 'The Time', will participate in it and offer daily predictions at the end of each stage.
The march will take place over twelve stages, the longest 35 km and the shorter, the four km that will walk on June 27 from Monte Do Gozo in Santiago, with an entrance enlivened with music and folklore from Cantabria regional the streets of the capital of Galicia.
The pilgrimage, which has the support of the Federation and Associations of North Camino de Santiago, the main European countries, will be monitored and controlled by a score of technicians and support staff as trainers, doctors, nurses, cooks, drivers, etc..
The road will run parallel to the coast by natural landscapes, punctuated with art and history. In addition to visiting some of the great and historic fishing villages of the region (Santander, Santillana del Mar, Comillas and San Vicente de la Barquera) envisages the completion of Lebaniego Road to visit the Holy Monastery of Thorium.
On Sunday, June 27, coinciding with the arrival of the march to Santiago de Compostela, a Peregrino Mass dedicated to Cantabria will be held at the Cathedral of the Galician capital .
The Eucharist will take place at 13.15 and be officiated by the Archbishop of Santiago, Julian Clay, and co-officiated by the parish priests of Guemes, Laredo and Polanco. Assisted the Minister of Culture as well as pilgrims from Laredo, Polanco and Santander Santiago reach for this purpose.
This is a great place of pilgrimage, organized by the Ministry under the title 'Cantabria on the Road', which will take place from 16 to 27 June and will travel the Camino de Santiago on the coast from Santander to Santiago de Compostela.
With this initiative, included in the program of activities of Cantabria Xacobeo 2010, the Ministry seeks to enhance the way north, the historic pilgrimage route first, earlier known as the Camino de Santiago French, begun in the eleventh century.
85 percent of participants come from Cantabria, although there arrived from Vizcaya, Madrid, Burgos, Murcia, Asturias and Barcelona. Trang Nguyen, a Korean resident in the United States who has traveled only to Spain to participate in the march. Similarly, the meteorologist José Antonio Maldonado, head of the program on the internet 'The Time', will participate in it and offer daily predictions at the end of each stage.
The march will take place over twelve stages, the longest 35 km and the shorter, the four km that will walk on June 27 from Monte Do Gozo in Santiago, with an entrance enlivened with music and folklore from Cantabria regional the streets of the capital of Galicia.
The pilgrimage, which has the support of the Federation and Associations of North Camino de Santiago, the main European countries, will be monitored and controlled by a score of technicians and support staff as trainers, doctors, nurses, cooks, drivers, etc..
The road will run parallel to the coast by natural landscapes, punctuated with art and history. In addition to visiting some of the great and historic fishing villages of the region (Santander, Santillana del Mar, Comillas and San Vicente de la Barquera) envisages the completion of Lebaniego Road to visit the Holy Monastery of Thorium.
On Sunday, June 27, coinciding with the arrival of the march to Santiago de Compostela, a Peregrino Mass dedicated to Cantabria will be held at the Cathedral of the Galician capital .
The Eucharist will take place at 13.15 and be officiated by the Archbishop of Santiago, Julian Clay, and co-officiated by the parish priests of Guemes, Laredo and Polanco. Assisted the Minister of Culture as well as pilgrims from Laredo, Polanco and Santander Santiago reach for this purpose.
