Santiago Spain Europe culture "the first road"

In the Christian world in Jerusalem, Rome and Santiago are three big religious shrine. Santiago in Spain after Jerusalem and Rome are the third most important city, is one of the most important city in Europe, is also a cultural place.

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In Spain the pilgrim road map Sina BloggerOrientalis/ photograph

In the upper left corner of the Spanish territory, Santiago de Kong Post La (SANTIAGO DECOMPOSTELA) corner, quite some day tall emperor is far means. In fact, it has a population of about 100000 small town in Europe as a whole is nobody do not know, known, is one of the three holiest city of Christianity, and due to the geographical location of the remote, in the Middle Ages was called the end of the world.

The interior of Santiago CathedralColor mapSina travel picture / photograph

Santiago road is a UNESCO world cultural heritage, is Europe's first big cultural tourism. The road to Santiago, the whole line combination of natural scenery, history and culture, is an important pilgrimage to the European way, also is a very good tourist routes. Now Santiago road has gone beyond the religious meanings, people in the long journey on foot to Santiago in addition to the beautiful natural scenery to northern Spain, also can feel the pilgrim pious heart."

Santiago the pilgrim road signsLi ShuyanSina travel picture / photograph

Santiago pilgrimage originated 900 years ago. The legend of Jesus one of the twelve disciples of St. James (Saint James, called Santiago, in Spanish, Santiago, also is the Chinese version of the Bible in the St. James) at the time was very remote Spanish mission seven years later, returned to Jerusalem and there martyr, his disciples put his bones back to his beloved Spanish burial, the coffin lay in Santiago. In fact, the city is named to Santiago. But with the Arabs in Spain 800 years of pagan rule, the graveyard of Santiago was damaged and buried, where nobody knows. Until the early ninth Century, a shepherd with the sky starlight guidance, finally found the Santiago tombs and remains, the city became famous, and widely circulated in Europe, with the passage of time, gradually formed a 800 km long road, every year attracts more than 500000 visitors pilgrims and tourists set foot on the journey, and eventually became one of the Christian holy land. Santiago pilgrimage in 1985 was officially identified as the UN World Cultural Heritage, followed by the European Parliament as the first European cultural route. Santiago is located in the northwest of Spain of the Galician coast, also known as Santiago de hole wave Stella, which is now the pilgrim road end.

The whole foot pilgrim hands covered medal certificateColor mapSina travel picture / photograph

The pilgrim Road starting point in the south of France, but the location is not fixed, scattered lines up six, these pathways converge in France and Spain border Pyrenees region, respectively, through the pine Poulter peak and Yibanieta peak two into Spanish territory, eventually converge to the Navarra area Pengtelaleina, forming a fixed line across the northern Spain, Aragon, Navarra, La Rioja, Castilla - Leon area, finally reached the quiet tired lying in fierce shore of the Atlantic, known as the border area with Celia. In the pilgrimage, the most traditional route is known as "the French road".

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