THE PILGRIM TRAIL- Through the village of St. Antoine France, Thousands travel on foot and donkey

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Channel: John's Baking Recipes. · 2010 · Travel & Events

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Santiago de Compostela, the "European City of Culture" for the year 2000, is located in the northwest of Spain. The city's cathedral is the destination of the important medieval pilgrimage route, the Way of St James (in Spanish the Camino de Santiago), which is still walked todayPilgrims would walk Way of St James for months to arrive finally at the great church in the main square to pay homage, and so many pilgrims have laid their hands on the pillar just inside the doorway to rest their weary bones, that a groove has been worn in the stone. A symbol of the Pilgrims is a white cockle shell, used to drink water along the route.

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