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Camino de Santiago
CAMINO DOWNUNDER presents classes, workshops and corporate consultancies for Australians and New Zealanders wishing to walk the great pilgrimage routes of France and Spain which have been in existence since the 9th century, to Santiago de Compostela in north western Spain.
What's new?
New “Reviews” page coming soon!
Invitation to all Australian, New Zealand and resident writers, artists
and performers who have connected with either France or Spain by walking on the Spanish and/or French tracks and paths and who, as a result have produced or created "a text".
For some time now, Camino Downunder has been regularly receiving requests from publishers and others to review...read more here
NEW PRODUCT available on our online shop very soon.
The Camino de Santiago Map from the French Pyrenees to Santiago de Compostela and on to Spain's Land's End: Finisterre/Fisterra.
This bold and unique map is in portrait orientation, forward up and is over 2 metres long. See Camino Downunder's Blog for further details.
Included on the map are the 8 World Heritage listed sites on or near the Camino de Santiago track.
This new map is responding to returning pilgrims wishing to have an extraordinary product to proudly frame and hang in their homes; thereby allowing them to relive their pilgrimage and to communicate to family, friends and associates their unique time on the Camino track.
All former Camino Downunder class participants since 2007 will enjoy a discounted price off the retail Internet price. Postage and handling will be free anywhere in the world if the product is purchased from the Camino Downunder website.
The guide for the SPANISH CAMINO - Walking the Camino Francés as a 21st
century pilgrim 5th Edition - REVISED AND UPDATED FOR 2012 is now
available for purchase online.
Same price: A$39.90 plus postage and handling.
The American film about the Camino de Santiago "THE WAY" is being released in Australia and New Zealand.
The Emilio Estevez's film THE WAY and starring his father Martin Sheen will be showing in various mainstream cinemas from Thursday,26 April throughout Australia and New Zealand. See Camino Downunder's Blog about this film here.
Camino de Santiago:
30 all-weather walking maps
These thirty maps weigh approximately 100 grams and are virtually indestructible in any weather situations. After nearly two years of research and development and road testing them in late 2009 they are now ready to be used by any pilgrim undertaking any section of the Camino Francés or the whole of it from the Pyrenees to Santiago de Compostela.
Or click here for where to buy in France.
What is the Camino de Santiago?
The Camino de Santiago (Spanish) or Saint James Way (English) is a network of Christian pilgrimage routes in France and Spain which have been in existence since the ninth century. The pilgrimage route which is the focus for Camino Downunder is called the Camino Francés. In the 12th and 13th centuries Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela exploded in popularity, overtaking the other two pilgrimage routes to Rome and Jerusalem. Read more »
The Spanish pilgrimage route Camino de Santiago is known in many languages:
- St James Way (English)
- Le Chemin de Saint-Jacques de Compostelle (French)
- Jakobsweg (German)
- Il Cammino di Santiago di Compostela (Italian)
- O Caminho de Santiago (Portuguese)
- Camiño de Santiago or Ruta Xacobea (Galician)
- Donejakue Bidea (Basque)
Camino Downunder website has its focus on the original medieval religious pilgrimage route dating back to the 10 century and called: the Camino Francés or the French Route.
THE Camino FrancÉs
The Camino Francés (which is the oldest pilgrimage route in Spain) is called the French route precisely because at the time it came into existence, the majority of pilgrims traversing it came from France.
However, the Somport Pyrenean pass (between France and Spain) was the preferred entry point until the 12th century, when the route between Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port and Roncesvalles took over in popularity because mountain banditry was better suppressed and massive new infrastructure built at Roncesvalles: the Real Colegiata including their famous pilgrim’s hostel was formally opened (consecrated) in 1219.
In the 21st century, people from around the world commence their pilgrimage at many different locations along this long route (freedom of choice), but are now no longer solely motivated to undertake it as a religious pilgrimage in the medieval traditions.
For many, they are motivated to commence this challenging journey because they want to have a unique Spanish, walking holiday. However, modern, long distance pilgrims gain a deep introspection and are changed. Along the journey, the original motivation gets modified. And serendipity plays itself out. The journey over time acts like a catalyst: it induces change.
You’ve come to the Camino Downunder website because you’re doing serious research and preparation to undertake the Camino Francés as an independent pilgrim-walker?
If yes, then read on…
To be a successfully independent pilgrim-walker along the Camino Francés when so many figuratively fall by the wayside… you should be armed with our just in time all-weather walking maps which double up as your one-stop guide with not too much information, but just the right amount, at the right time, when you so dearly need it.
These 30 all-weather maps will empower you:
- designed solely with the pilgrim-walker in mind
- the empathy of knowing what you will be feeling and needing
– nothing more and nothing less - You will be stronger each day and more confident.
When you’ve been walking some 6, 7 or 8 hours
- and the afternoon is wearing you down, you’ve had it and you’re sore
- within seconds and irrespective of any weather conditions (atrocious or beautiful)
- you will know exactly where you are and you will know which pilgrim hostel you wish to go and how much more walking you’ve got to do before getting there.
THAT’S PRICELESS
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21st Century Camino de Santiago maps:
Hi-tech 3D: waterproof - washable - renewable
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