El Camí de Sant Jaume no es troba només a França, Portugal o Espanya.
There is another route, far less anomenats però deeply rooted in the medieval history of pilgrimage: the Celtic Camí, a journey que connecten Ireland with Santiago de Compostela mitjançant l'Atlantic i continus in Galícia al llarg del Camí Anglès.
Per centuries, Irish pilgrims crossed the sea in search of the tomb of Saint James.
Tothom, que ancient relationship is being rediscovered.
A Camí born on the Atlantic
The links between Ireland and Santiago go back centuries.
From at least the Middle Ages, pilgrims from Ireland travelled from ports such as Cork, Limerick, Waterford or Wexford towards el nord-est de la Iberian Peninsula.
The crossed the Atlantic in males boats, often in extremely difficult conditions, before continuing their journey on foot towards Compostela.
Those journeys helped create a maritime pilgrimage tradition that would later become closely associated with what we now know as the Camí anglès.
Per Irish pilgrims, Santiago no simply a distant Spanish destination.
It became part de molt wider Atlantic religious and cultural world linking Ireland, Galícia i altres regions of Western Europe.
The Celtic Camí totay
The modern Celtic Camí combines walking in Ireland with the Camí Anglès in Galícia.
Pilgrims can complete at least 25 quilòmetres of an accredited route in Ireland and then walk the approximately 75 quilòmetres from La Corunya to Santiago de Compostel·la.
Totalment, les dues seccions reach the minimum 100 quilòmetres traditionally required to request the Compostela on foot.
The Camino Society Ireland issues a pilgrim credential que allows walkers per recordar les irish stages before travelling to Galícia.
El connection between both sections és necessarily made by sigui or air.
It is therefore one of the most unusual versions of the Camino:
walk, cross the Atlantic and keep walking.
Saint Patrick and Saint James on the same journey
The route als brings per a dues enormous traditions of European Christianity.
Ireland is inseparable from Saint Patrick, while Galícia and the Camino are linked to Saint James the Apostle.
Walking the Celtic Camí therefore creats a symbolic bridge between two ancient pilgrimage cultures.
The Irish stages pass through landscapes filled s early Christian heritage, monastic history, Cèltic traditions and places associated with centuries of religious life.
Then, after reaching Galícia, els pilgrim joins the historical route used by travellers arriving by sigui from northern Europe.
Why start from La Corunya?
Per many modern pilgrims, the Camí Anglès begins in Ferrol.
Historically, however, La Corunya també té un alt dels ports d'arrival per pilgrims com per Ireland and Britain.
Ships carrying pilgrims would arriba al Galician coast, allowing travellers to continue towards Santiago on foot.
Aquest maritime history explains why the Celtic Camino uses La Corunya as its Galician starting point.
From there, pilgrims continue through the countryside of La Corunya province before joining the final stages towards Santiago.
The last stage traditionally approaches Compostela from Sigüeiro, with approximately 16 quilòmetres remaining to the Cathedral.
One of the Camino's best-kept secrets
Per many international pilgrims, el Camí de Sant Jaume est still almost synonymous with the Camí Francès.
But the Celtic Camí reveals a molt broader story.
The pilgrimage to Santiago was never exclusively a Spanish or French phenomenon.
It was European.
Pilgrims arrived by land and by sea.
They came from England, Ireland, Scandinàvia i altres parts de nord-Europa.
And many of them assabentar Galícia through its ports.
El modern revival del céltic camí és tan simple com una invenció d'un altre route.
És la recuperació d'un Atlantic connection.
From the Emerald Isle to the Obradoiro
Tothom, a pilgrim can begin am green landscapes of Ireland, collect stamps al llarg d'Irish Camino route, cross to Galicia i continu guanyant towers the towers de Santiago Cathedral.
Two countries.
An Atlantic crossing.
One pilgrimage.
And one destination.
El céltic camí és remei un dels anomenats routes associats amb Santiago, però perhaps que és necessària part d'aquesta atracció.
Per pilgrims searching for something different, it offers history, spirituality, dramatic landscapes i un most unusual ways imaginable to reach Compostela.
From Ireland to Santiago, the Camí als crosses the sea.
