"El Camino de Santiago means freedom, culture, sport, nature, tradition,
challenge, peace but above all it is freedom.
El Camino has been walked by emperors like Charlemagne, popes like Calixtus II, kings like Alfonso II, brave knights like the Spanish “El Cid” or the Knights Templar, noblemen, St. Francis of Assisi, thousands of priests, farmers, beggars, travelers, the healthy, the sick, the blind, the lame, the rich and the homeless.
All of them were pilgrims and all of them were treated the same, because no one knew if the dirty and tired pilgrim that just arrived in the village was a king, a bishop or a pauper. They were and still are all pilgrims always looking for something, always bringing new ideas."
El Camino has been walked by emperors like Charlemagne, popes like Calixtus II, kings like Alfonso II, brave knights like the Spanish “El Cid” or the Knights Templar, noblemen, St. Francis of Assisi, thousands of priests, farmers, beggars, travelers, the healthy, the sick, the blind, the lame, the rich and the homeless.
All of them were pilgrims and all of them were treated the same, because no one knew if the dirty and tired pilgrim that just arrived in the village was a king, a bishop or a pauper. They were and still are all pilgrims always looking for something, always bringing new ideas."
