Santiago de Compostela

Learn more about the 7 most popular Camino de Santiago Routes to Santiago de Compostela – the most popular pilgrimage in the world.

Camino de Santiago: A pilgrimage across northern Spain to the sanctuary at Santiago de Compostela is the finest journey in Spain.

Toulouse boasts many wondrous sights, but the biggest and most famous is the enormous Romanesque Basilica of Saint-Sernin. The huge brick and stone structure was begun in the 11th century to serve the crowds of pilgrims on their way to Santiago de Compostela, in Spain.  It’s 115 meters (377 feet) long, 64 meters (210 feet) …

  If it weren’t for the cell phones and sunglasses, I’d have sworn we were in 16th-century France, walking on cobblestones and avoiding donkey dung on the streets of Le Puy-en-Velay. Peasants in plain brown tunics and aristocrats in velvet cloaks filled the narrow lanes, drinking ale from horns, buying meat pies, watching jugglers and …