sillydoll
Veteran Member
- Time of past OR future Camino
- 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:
http://www.diariodeleon.es/noticias...-senalizar-camino-invierno-bierzo_912757.html
Google translation:
Although the true flood of pilgrims on the Camino de Santiago chooses to cross the Bierzo through Piedrafita, each year there are those who choose to follow the alternative route of the Sil river to Valdeorras, by municipalities Bercianos Priaranza, Borrenes, Carucedo and Puente de Domingo Flórez. The so-called Winter Trail, which carried pilgrims wanting to avoid the cold to get into Galicia Lugo mountains, is being increasingly promoted by the hotels and the beneficiaries mayors, especially those in areas Galician Ribeira Sacra and Valdeorras .The tourism business day is inescapable and are stepping up efforts to attract these pilgrims.
For this purpose a meeting at which representatives of restaurants, hotels, lodges and cottages married with organizations promoting the Winter Trail participated was held in Monforte de Lemos. Most of them Galicians, but especially active from Bierzo by mayors and Priaranza Bridge.
This association meeting came the decision to conduct a campaign to promote and attract pilgrims on the Bierzo to take on the Camino de Invierno. The idea is to indicate precisely this alternative section of the business establishments Bierzo region and also in the Camino de Santiago before Ponferrada. Thus, the aim is to celebrate when they finish -pre-visiblemente summer vacation in the month of September-a meeting with mayors also places to ask permission and get them involved in signaling with posters of the Winter Trail Sil Valley to Valdeorras.
The promoters of this initiative are to enhance contacts to achieve official recognition of the Winter Trail, that much with the support of the Xunta de Galicia.Among the initiatives that have been put on the table is that of signaling the hospitality industry with an identifying logo of the pilgrim. It would in particular the 'P' pilgrim as a partner and also intended to serve as an added plus to the government to include in its guidelines and promotional campaigns this winter route, also used today as an alternative to the now crowded General section Camino de Santiago.
Google translation:
Although the true flood of pilgrims on the Camino de Santiago chooses to cross the Bierzo through Piedrafita, each year there are those who choose to follow the alternative route of the Sil river to Valdeorras, by municipalities Bercianos Priaranza, Borrenes, Carucedo and Puente de Domingo Flórez. The so-called Winter Trail, which carried pilgrims wanting to avoid the cold to get into Galicia Lugo mountains, is being increasingly promoted by the hotels and the beneficiaries mayors, especially those in areas Galician Ribeira Sacra and Valdeorras .The tourism business day is inescapable and are stepping up efforts to attract these pilgrims.
For this purpose a meeting at which representatives of restaurants, hotels, lodges and cottages married with organizations promoting the Winter Trail participated was held in Monforte de Lemos. Most of them Galicians, but especially active from Bierzo by mayors and Priaranza Bridge.
This association meeting came the decision to conduct a campaign to promote and attract pilgrims on the Bierzo to take on the Camino de Invierno. The idea is to indicate precisely this alternative section of the business establishments Bierzo region and also in the Camino de Santiago before Ponferrada. Thus, the aim is to celebrate when they finish -pre-visiblemente summer vacation in the month of September-a meeting with mayors also places to ask permission and get them involved in signaling with posters of the Winter Trail Sil Valley to Valdeorras.
The promoters of this initiative are to enhance contacts to achieve official recognition of the Winter Trail, that much with the support of the Xunta de Galicia.Among the initiatives that have been put on the table is that of signaling the hospitality industry with an identifying logo of the pilgrim. It would in particular the 'P' pilgrim as a partner and also intended to serve as an added plus to the government to include in its guidelines and promotional campaigns this winter route, also used today as an alternative to the now crowded General section Camino de Santiago.
