Where does the Camino de Santiago Start?
Where does the Camino de Santiago Start?The Camino de Santiago is a pilgrimage to the tomb of St James in Santiago de Compostela. But where does it start?Answer: The Camino de Santiago begins from the front door of your house. This is not intended in some kind of metaphysical way (though some take it in that sense). Rather, before tourists adopted the Camino as the physical challenge it is today, pilgrims took the easiest route possible to Santiago. If you happened to live 50km away, that was all you walked. If you didn’t live on one of the prescribed routes, you didn’t walk all the way to the ‘beginning’ of one of them. You just did your best and joined the route when you could. Of course, if you live in London or New York, walking from your doorstep would take a long time. But, in fact, plenty of people in Europe do begin from their homes, a few weeks at a time over a number of years. But that takes a hu
