"The Camino de Santiago, known in English as the Way of St James, is a
network of pilgrims' ways or pilgrimages leading to the shrine of the
apostle Saint James the Great in the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela
in Galicia in northwestern Spain, where tradition holds that the remains
of the apostle are buried.
Most popular route (which gets very
crowded in mid-summer) is the Camino Francés which stretches 780 km
(nearly 500 miles) from St. Jean-Pied-du-Port near Biarritz in France to
Santiago. This route is fed by three major French routes: the Voie de
Tours, the Voie de Vezelay, and the Voie du Puy. It is also joined along
its route by the Camino Aragones (which is fed by the Voie d’Arles which
crosses the Pyrenees at the Somport Pass), by the Camí de Sant Jaume from
Montserrat near Barcelona, the Ruta de Tunel from Irun, the Camino
Primitivo from Bilbao and Oviedo, and by the Camino de Levante from
Valencia and Toledo.