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[QUOTE="Bradypus, post: 721906, member: 42372"] I do find the insistence on SJPDP as the definitive starting point of the "Camino Frances" puzzling. The architect of the modern Camino revival was Don Elias Valina - for many years parish priest of O Cebreiro. The creation of a specific waymarked walking route fully mapped and signposted with a guidebook and dedicated pilgrim accommodation was largely the work of Don Elias and his associates in the 1970s and early 1980s. I have a copy of his seminal 1984 guide book. Don Elias begins by describing the Aragones route from Somport - the Navarra routes from SJPDP come second in his guidebook and do not seem to have any special priority. Throughout his book he refers to "El Camino de Santiago" and not "the Camino Frances" though he uses "Caminos franceses" as a generic term for the routes in France itself leading to the border. Why has one specific starting point and one specific route over the border come to be regarded as canonical? That also raises a deeper question for me on the nature of pilgrimage: is it defined by the path one follows or the destination in mind? When someone dismisses my journey to Santiago on the Camino Primitivo as an inferior ersatz experience by asking if I intend to walk "the [I]real[/I] Camino" some day then I fear that the concept of pilgrimage has been sadly undermined and distorted. [/QUOTE]
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