SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA - Valle Benedetta
16th stage
martedì18
May 2457 km
sun
The day of goodbyes. About
home, who to Finis Terrae.
Four steps to see that for all of Europe until the discovery of the Americas was
unequivocally the end of the world: the ocean.
The budget of our mission is to be welcomed.
addition to the physical condition and resistance to water, the staff was satisfied by so much history, so many landscapes and nature, but above all, a good lesson in simplicity.
mission of promoting Francigena has gone beyond all expectations. I'm sure the master Massimo Tosi has received many compliments in his career as a painter, but I have really a lot of ambassador. Also wonder at the sight of the silver coins the Mint of Lucca as a gift. We have seen hospitaleri run to call pastors, mayors and directors of museums because it was something unique happening. Among
Molinaseca Ponferrada and we were chased by car from the head of the Museum and Information Center of all the wanderings of the World, because he had
material from Brazil and Japan, but he lacked the Francigena!
The same thing happened in the Museums of Sarria, Santiago, in the offices of tourism in all big cities, but above all in hospital for 400 km.
Who does not hurry to attack it immediately at its point of reception he had a reason: thought that it would take glass and frame to keep it.
Now that this decision not to spread leaflets are disposable, but leave a lasting mark, honored, it should continue as do the other paths. The Brazilian
Camino del Sol has a fixed location and a hospital, equal to the Way of the 100 Japanese Temples, the Templars of Jerusalem and the Knights of Malta are fixed on the Way, as well as our Confraternity of Perugia manages one of the most beautiful and Authentic Hospital del Camino de Santiago.
a fixed location on the Way right now that there will be this huge influx of pilgrims is essential to inform the Francigena.
Paradoxically the fact that here the number of pilgrims is still content would be the answer to the common complaint of this period the English way.
this will work for tomorrow and now I have to fall in relation to the speed of an aircraft or a train.
Thanks to all the people who have allowed the creation of this unique adventure.
John
SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA
15th stage
Monday, May 17
sun A day to prepare the return, especially to its rhythms.
I thought that on Monday there would be more quiet, but today is the feast of the National People Galego (Galician). Here independence is a peaceful and cultural demands of the left against the centralization of the values \u200b\u200bof the Castilian monarchy.
Suddenly everything becomes secular: dancing, endless stalls of books, boxes for meetings yesterday and then there were bagpipes and drums and singing from morning until late at night.
I still can summarize:
three times on the Route to Santiago strictly on foot and with luggage still on his shoulders.
pilgrims I met on the way from Australia, from Brescia, Germany, France, Abruzzo, Holland, Korea, Alaska, by United States, Canada,
Perugia, Chile, Sardinia, Argentina, from Mestre, from the Basque Country, dall'Aragona from Rioja, from Castilla, from La Mancha, the Balearic Islands, from Galicia, from Turin, from Colombia, Israel, Norway, Uruguay, Brazil, Japan, from London, Belgium, Finland, from Trento, Mexico, from Bergamo, Chile, Denmark, England, Serbia, Portugal.
Those are places for you readers, are intended for me.
secret path
Inside the Cathedral of Santiago there is a church.
not just a church but a chapel. That of the ninth century ..
John
Labacolla - SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA
14th stage Sunday, May 16
10 km
sun
An error is getting.
Just today, which is the last stage, which is only 10 km., Which is a walk up the hill of Gozo and from there you can already see the spire of the Cathedral ... wrong road today! Paola
chat with Peter, I chatted with James, in short, we do not see a yellow arrow and after a while 'we are at a crossroads.
We were wrong. I'm sure. There are no arrows, there are pilgrims neither forward nor back, and there are no footprints in the gravel and sticks. So I find
a country from the beautiful name: "Refuge de las Animas.
There's no one around when I do the medieval pilgrim: I knock on a door to ask for the road. A lady like the most obvious thing in the world faces, it shows me the way and asked us if we want a coffee. Then ask him the name and she says that before the road passes from there, but there were more bars then the other way ...
For purists: the journey is like our old Aurelie, Emilie Appia or covered with asphalt. In
900 with the advent of the internal combustion engine instead of wagons, the goods they bring the trucks always the best way and that everyone knows.
So the current route is decided to be honest or historical, or honest environmentalists or corrupt local government. 5 km from Santiago, the pilgrim, after thousands of kilometers into the unknown could be seen from the top of this hill, Monte del Gozo (Mount of use), the peaks of the House of the Apostle James, the Cathedral.
Now, as a surveyor's nightmare of the '80s can be spread on the Hospital Hill half of 1600 beds.
A hive that seems more "Castrorama" a sacred place. But no matter, now the Pilgrims Way to us is over. We must make ourselves aside and make way for the religious tourism of mass. This year
Jacobean Holy Year, since July 25 (Saint James) falls on a Sunday. You open the Holy Door and anyone the gates receive a plenary indulgence.
The blow of emotion when we come to Piazza de Obradoiro is always strong, we did business, made the pilgrimage.
But just a tear of joy, a cry, a hug and now we take pictures of communion, we're pretty shabby perdiventare souvenirs ... There
queue for everything: to enter the Cathedral, to leave their knapsacks, to deliver and receive the credential Compostela, perbrindare tail, tail to eat. We leave the old town and only in the Franciscan Seminary
are a bit 'of peace. We'll sleep here. Solidarity among pilgrims is expressed now in a new way: in the place the tourists do not go to dinner at that hour there lacattedrale tail, etc ...
And we're in season! If we now arrive each day between 700 and 1,000 pilgrims than five times the number of tourists in June, July, August and September all multiply by 4.
For the period around the 25th of July, now that it is safe to visit the Pope, the army will mount tents and field kitchens ...
Ribadiso - Labacolla
13th stage Saturday, May 15
30 km
sun and clouds
A Ribadiso the hospitalera is called Lola.
as a federation of Samos, as Thomas, like Jesus, like Angel, as the pastor of Casanova, and like many others I have not had the fortune to know, are in place for over 18 years. Bear who treats them as a hotel, the food and the religious fundamentalists, hygienists, alcoholics, the fanatics of kilometers, the researchers of buses and depressed because there is no place ... With infinite patience suggest alternative solutions, providing blankets, indicate places of art, pharmacies and physiotherapists ... always with a smile, always with an 'ethical exactitude. At dawn, when the pilgrims leave, clean up the whole hospital for the pilgrims who come.
Without them, the Camino de Santiago would not exist, but do not feel
never brag about it.
We're all feeling the imminent arrival. I feel
the need for this Thanksgiving. After
Ribadiso, the town of Arzua and then on to Santiago, endless forests of eucalyptus trees. The sun does reappear newcomers in the last 100 km. I'm singing, I'm always the phone, especially there are many. The mechanism is simple: after 20 km maximum, stop. So the ten that we
more per week are among the noises of the forest only.
The sun today was there all day
secret path I do not agree with the hazing of the veterans who see these people as pseudo pilgrims, as the profane. This is a place of peace and more people have, the more I am happy because it means which is not a 'peace elite. I've never seen a brawl or a fight on the way, I've never seen anyone go indifferent to another who needed help and this is the feature that unfortunately only meeting here.
What then in 2010, Spain and Lourdes Romagna or do their characteristics, 80% of GDP seems normal in a capitalist world.
If instead of pretending you learn to ask politely, a path similar to that intimate and medieval and Renaissance would still be possible.
must leave aside the glossy guides and a list of phone numbers, and trust.
Twelve centuries that this beautiful land of Spain welcomes pilgrims and we will continue to do so peacefully and happily as does Lola.
But we must be humble, admit to needing others.
There are only relations with the portfolio, there exists the reception.
And the warmth is not free, the warmth is priceless
John
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