The Civil Guard locates a Paraguayan pilgrim on the Camino de Invierno: The Civil Guard located a difficult-to-access section of the Winter Road to a pilgrim who his family had lost track. The man's mobile phone had broken shortly after entering Galicia and his relatives thought that something could have happened to him. The agents found him in the municipality of Quiroga.
The pilgrim is a man born in Paraguay who has family in Italy. These relatives are those who were in contact with him since he began the Camino to Santiago along this route, an alternative itinerary to the French Way that separates from it in Ponferrada and continue south along the bed of the Miño River to avoid the mountains of O Cebreiro.
These relatives, who They live in Milan, they were counting on the man to arrive in O Barco on the 12th, but on the 11th they lost contact with him. On the morning of the 13th they decided to report his disappearance to the police in Milan. The Italian authorities forwarded the notice to Interpol, which in turn forwarded it to the Civil Guard.
The Civil Guard began searching for him in the provinces of León and the provinces of Ourense and Lugo. The agents toured the different sections of the Camino de Invierno and they asked in the accommodations that there is along this route.
The search bore fruit in the early afternoon of that day, January 13. Agents of the Quiroga Civil Guard found the pilgrim in the vicinity of Bendilló, a town in Quiroga, the municipality through which the Camino de Invierno enters the province of Lugo from the Ourense region of Valdeorras.
A view of the town of Bendilló, in whose vicinity the pilgrim was located CARLOS RUEDA
The man was fine and explained to the guards that if it had been days without contact with his relatives is because his mobile phone had broken down. The section of the road on which the pilgrim was at that moment is a pedestrian route, hardly accessible for motor vehicles.
FOUNTAIN: THE VOICE OF GALICIA
