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The Association of Southeast Camino de Santiago signaling after endorsing power to 50,000 pilgrims to Compostela
04/02/2013 | elperiodic.com

• The City Council and volunteers have prepared 29 posters to make recognizable the initial stage of the route, from the Basilica of Santa Maria to the Cemetery
• The Camino de Santiago Southeast extends about 1,150 kilometers from the center of Alicante to the grave of the saint in Galicia, the pilgrims cover in 45 stages
• Alicante Culture cooperates with the voluntary association of the road in the program of events to celebrate the twentieth anniversary

The Association of Friends of the Camino de Santiago Southeast - that part of Alicante to Compostela - celebrates its twentieth anniversary with a program of conferences and exhibitions. Taking advantage of the anniversary, this group of volunteers and Culture of the City Alicante have prepared 29 signals that highlight the initial kilometers of the route, which run from the point O, the Basilica of Santa Maria, to the cemetery. The posters will be posted the next day.

The Association of Friends of the Camino de Santiago has already granted Southeast from its headquarters in Alicante 50,000 credentials to so many pilgrims have undertaken the pilgrimage route any of its routes (the most popular is the French way). Some 3,000 of them are Alicante which have been directed towards the tomb of the apostle from our city, as reported by the chairman of that group, Federico Ramirez.

Ramirez, founder of the association, its vowel of Culture, Juan Latorre, with the deputy mayor Miguel value have appeared today before the media to invite Alicante to take part in the acts with which commemorate the twentieth birthday.

Value has recognized the work of these pioneers of South Road, which operated from the Middle Ages and regains its prominence through the work of the volunteers of this association and of the 15 groups working together to improve support endowments pilgrim paths and targeting signals to Compostela. "The road is a human experience, history and culture", has referred Value.

The Way of Southeastern part of Alicante, passes Yecla, Albacete, Cuenca, Toledo, Ávila, Valladolid, Zamora and Benavente, where it forks and offers two alternatives: Orense direction for where it joins the Via de la Plata, or to Astorga , which connects with the French route.

The two spokespersons of the Association of Southeast Camino explain that "Alicante is very pilgrim, but the route from our city is for seasoned hikers.'s Beautiful, but hard. Need to cross the Channel and at certain times, like summer, is tiring. Among the advantages, as a way virtually untouched, not overcrowded and you can feel better with your inner "recount.

Calendar of events, which has already set in motion, the next is Feb. 15, at 19 pm: lecture at MACA. Escarabajal Palau Thomas, who has been director of several archaeological excavations, will discuss "The tomb of a pilgrim Alicante XIV century".

On Wednesday 27, Jesus Sanchez Leader, will speak on "The Road Mozarabic". In the cultural field of the English Court. 19 hours.

On March 1, new conference in the MACA: "Humanism and the pilgrimage route to Compostela", offered by the teacher, priest and theologian Gonzalo Tejerina.

The activities will continue in April and May.

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