the tomb of St. James in Santiago de Compostela in northwest Spain, will tell you that walking the Camino is not just a personal growth experience, but it’s also a spiritual, cultural ...

This story appears in the May 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. During the summers of 2012 and 2013, I walked more than a thousand miles on the Camino de Santiago. Also called the Way of ...

The focal point and namesake of the Camino de Santiago is the city of Santiago de Compostela, located in Spain’s far northwest. The city, where legend has it that the martyr St. James is buried ...

For more than 30 days, Tobias Schlegl walked the Camino de Santiago – the world’s most ... also known as the Way of St James, and Schlegl, a journalist and paramedic, wanted to reconnect ...