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Over 200 Alicante Santiago pilgrimage each year
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Day 13/1/2013 - 2:54 p.m.
The route of the South from the province is 1,100 km and can be done in 40 days on foot
Two hundred Alicante pilgrimage each year to Santiago de Compostela Camino called Southeast, extending from the city of Alicante Villena through the Galician capital reaching about 1,100 kilometers further.
The president of the Association of Friends of the
Camino de Santiago de Alicante, Federico Ramirez has told Efe that the 200 pilgrims who started the tour in the province last year, they did some 160 bike (about 20 days of travel) and 40 feet (45) .
The association in Alicante was created two decades ago and during this period has distributed some 45,000 credentials, the document to be sealed at least once a day during the Camino in Santiago for the desired "Compostela".
The vast majority of these were pilgrims roamed the credential in Alicante, however, and el
Camino Frances, which starts Roncesvalles (Navarro) or Somport (Huesca) and running through the Castilian plateau reaching Galicia.
According to Ramirez, recently distributed 4,000 to 5,000 annual credentials, a figure that doubles if Jacobean years , and interest in performing the pilgrimage Southeast (driven by the association since 1995) is increasing.
This route follows the route published in 1545 in a book by royal mail Villuga Pedro Ruiz, and is set to be less traveled and to fulfill the motto of the Way "begins at the door of the house", and the disadvantage of few shelters have prepared for the rest of the walker.
The route leaves the Southeast province in Villena and passes through the provinces of Albacete, Cuenca, Toledo, Madrid, Ávila, Valladolid and Zamora before, at the height of Benavente, join the Via de la Plata to join the French to height Astorga (León) or going for Puebla de Sanabria to Orense Way to follow the call Sanabrés, little frequented.
"The Southeast is young but is very much alive and when in a few years will have more infrastructure to walk with all the amenities", said Ramirez.
Because this little traffic, pilgrims Southeast has some work 'extra' in planning since the days prior to his fate should call peoples phones that facilitates the association so that there "will wait" and give them either in hostel accommodation, sports or other enclosure.
The president of the Association of Friends of Alicante on Thursday gave a conference organized by Casa Mediterráneo titled "El
Camino de Santiago: Spirituality, tradition and art".