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Nuestro tema del mes es el Camino de Santiago, una de las principales rutas culturales europeas. Cada a\u00f1o miles de peregrinos procedentes de toda Espa\u00f1a y Europa recorren un largo trecho para llegar a la ciudad de Santiago de Compostela, donde se veneran las reliquias del ap\u00f3stol Santiago el Mayor. La creencia cada vez m\u00e1s extendida en los milagros de Santiago, provoc\u00f3 que la gente comenzara a peregrinar hacia Santiago de Compostela para obtener su gracia.<\/p>\n
El Camino de Santiago signific\u00f3 el primer elemento vertebrador del viejo continente en la historia europea y supuso encontrar un punto de referencia indiscutible en el que pod\u00eda converger la pluralidad de distintos pueblos ya cristianizados pero necesitados en aquel entonces de unidad.<\/p>\n
\u00a0Ha estado unido indisociablemente a la cultura, a la formaci\u00f3n y a la informaci\u00f3n. Lo que se dec\u00eda, predicaba, contaba, cantaba, esculp\u00eda o pintaba en el camino alcanzaba siempre a m\u00e1s gente y a m\u00e1s lugares. Gracias a su influjo en el arte y la literatura, Compostela junto con Jerusal\u00e9n y Roma se convirti\u00f3 en meta de la sociedad cristiana, especialmente a partir del siglo XI al XIV. El camino llegar\u00eda a ser un foco catalizador de toda la sociedad cristiana.<\/p>\n
Durante toda la Edad Media fue muy popular, despu\u00e9s fue ligeramente olvidado debido a diversos factores (la peste, la reforma protestante y los conflictos pol\u00edticos). En la \u00e9poca actual ha vuelto a tomar un gran auge. El Camino de Santiago Franc\u00e9s y las rutas francesas del Camino fueron declarados por la Unesco Patrimonio de la Humanidad en 1993 y 1998 respectivamente, Itinerario Cultural Europeo por el Consejo de Europa y ha recibido el t\u00edtulo honor\u00edfico de Calle mayor de Europa.\u00a0En el A\u00f1o Santo Compostelano de 1993, el gobierno aut\u00f3nomo gallego decidi\u00f3 potenciar su valor enfocado a un recurso tur\u00edstico, de este modo se lanz\u00f3 una gran campa\u00f1a de publicidad para el Jacobeo de ese a\u00f1o: Xacobeo 93. Gracias a este plan se restauraron tramos de la ruta y las infraestructuras para peregrinos.<\/p>\n
Desde entonces, hacer el recorrido a pie, en bicicleta o a caballo e incluso en burro es un destino popular que re\u00fane lo religioso, espiritual, deportivo, cultural, econ\u00f3mico, etc., tal y como ha venido ocurriendo desde el principio a trav\u00e9s de los siglos. El camino se halla indicado por flechas pintadas de amarillo, postes y otras se\u00f1ales.\u00a0La mayor\u00eda de los peregrinos llega a Santiago por el llamado “Camino Franc\u00e9s”, pero existen otras seis rutas hist\u00f3ricas por las cuales se puede hacer el camino santo.<\/p>\n
Si quieres preparar tu viaje de peregrinaci\u00f3n a Santiago o simplemente saber m\u00e1s sobre el Camino, en la biblioteca tenemos una amplia selecci\u00f3n de obras que te pueden ayudar.<\/p>\n
Our topic of the month is the Camino de Santiago (The Way of St James), one of the most important European cultural routes. Every year thousands of pilgrims coming from all parts of Spain and Europe go a long distance until arriving to Santiago de Compostela where the remains of the apostle Saint James are venerated. It started when people started to believe in St James\u2019 miracles and therefore they started to do the pilgrimage to Santiago to get his grace.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0Camino de Santiago was the first backbone of the old continent in the European history and an indisputable reference point where the different conceptions of Christian peoples could find a common unity.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0It has been linked inherently to culture, education and information. Everything that was said, preached, told, sung, sculpted or painted in the Camino got to a large number of people and places. Thanks to its influence in art and literature, Compostela along with Jerusalem and Rome became a meeting point of Christian society, especially between the 11th and 14th century.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0It was highly travelled during the Middle ages but several factors (the Black Death, the Protestant Reformation and political unrest) led to its decline. By the 1980s, only a few pilgrims per year arrived in Santiago. Later, the route attracted a growing number of modern-day pilgrims from around the globe. The route was declared the first European Cultural Route by the Council of Europe in October 1987; it was also named one of UNESCO’s World Heritage Sites in 1993.<\/span><\/p>\n In 1993, a Jubilee Year, the Galician government decided to increase its popularity and planned a big advertising campaign to promote the Camino and the infrastructures were highly improved.<\/span><\/p>\n Today tens of thousands of Christian pilgrims and many other travellers set out each year from their front doorstep, or popular starting points across Europe, to make their way to Santiago de Compostela. Most travel by foot, some by bicycle, and a few travel as some of their medieval counterparts did, on horseback or by donkey.<\/span><\/p>\n In addition to people undertaking a religious pilgrimage, the majority are travellers and hikers who walk the route for non-religious reasons: travel, sport, or simply the challenge of weeks of walking in a foreign land. Also, many consider the experience a spiritual adventure to remove themselves from the bustle of modern life. It serves as a retreat for many modern “pilgrims”.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0Most of the pilgrims arrive to Santiago by taking the French Way but there are other six historical routes to do the Camino.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0 If you want to prepare your pilgrimage route to Santiago or simply to know more about the Camino, in the library we have an ample selection of works that can help you.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nuestro tema del mes es el Camino de Santiago, una de las principales rutas culturales europeas. Cada a\u00f1o miles de peregrinos procedentes de toda Espa\u00f1a y Europa recorren un largo trecho para llegar a la ciudad de Santiago de Compostela, donde se veneran las reliquias del ap\u00f3stol Santiago el Mayor. La creencia cada vez m\u00e1s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,39,42],"tags":[605,470,527,282,791,1203,39],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/dublin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/dublin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/dublin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/dublin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/dublin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9115"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/dublin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10913,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/dublin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9115\/revisions\/10913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/dublin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/dublin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/dublin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}