It is thought that pilgrims have been walking along Northern Spain's coast in search of Saint James' tomb to the city of Santiago de Compostela since the ninth century. This thousand-year-old ...

My mom and I have completed two routes from the Camino de Santiago together. Our international trips to Europe have helped us ...

There is perhaps no more iconic trail in all of Europe than Spain’s Camino de Santiago. This centuries-old route was once a religious pilgrimage, and has become a popular adventure thru-hike in modern ...

“Tu mochila es tan pesada como tus miedos,” says Leonardo San Sebastián, as he lifts the bottom of my backpack to check its weight. We’re standing before the Santuario de Santa María a Real do ...

Hikers around the world are rediscovering Spain's Camino de Santiago, Medieval Europe's version of the thru-hike. A veteran of the pilgrimage shares his tips for getting your boots on the path. A ...

Ashley M. Biggers (@ambiggers) has been a professional travel writer for five years. She earned her master’s degree from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. The Camino is ...

In her early 30s, Rachael Sanborn found herself in a bad relationship and dreaming of an escape to the Camino de Santiago in Spain, a pilgrimage her father had undertaken that had profoundly changed ...

Pilgrims walking the famous Camino de Santiago have reached a new record. In 2023, nearly half a million people from around the world hiked this historic route. According to the statistics released by ...

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I have always wanted to walk the Camino to Santiago de Compostela but, as a single woman of increasing age and girth – and decreasing time and funds – how would I do it? I wanted the whole caboodle of ...