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The Many Routes of Camino de Santiago – A Pilgrimage Trail not Just for Pilgrims

July 30, 2012

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Santiago del Compostela on the Coast of Spain

For more than a thousand years pilgrims have walked this trail across northern Spain and every year more and more people join that number. There are five main routes that are walked: the Camino Frances, the Via de la Plata, the Northern Routes, the English Road, and the Portuguese Road.

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The Authentic Seville: The Market of Jueves (Thursday) and the Church of Macarena

July 15, 2011

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We can start our tour in the Plaza de la Encarnacion radically transformed by the shopping center Parasol, better known as the mushrooms. Its architecture design leaves no one indifferent. In the basement, the Antiquarium with Roman mosaics which put us in Hispalis (roman name for Seville) 1600 years ago.

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