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There are several Pilgrimage-related sites on the web. They vary from commercial to cultural. This listing is a beginning point for places to look. Note: we are finding that some web sites are being dismantled. Be prepared to encounter obselete addresses. If you know of any other interesting or valuable website related to the Camino de Santiago, please pos it on the Message Board found in the Home Page. Ultreia!
* The Galician Xunta's site contains several pages of interesting information and a way to sign up and put yourself in contact with others intending to make the pilgrimage. You'll need to read Spanish or Gallego for this site.
* For information from a British point of view, and with special information for bikers:
* The British Confraternity has a wide following and a guide book that is updated with some frequency.
* A Canadian based website, the Little Company of Pilgrims has good information and interesting links.
* This information website was developed by the Carnegie Library of Pittsburg, the public library in Pennsylvania city, and is an excellent first source of information about the route as well as a place to begin a web search. It includes a good list of guidebooks and where they can be obtained.
* "The First Cybernetic Confraternity of Friends of the Pilgrim Road to Santiago"
* One American web site, developed by university professor John Dagenais, connects pedagogical aims with the Road, affording an attractive platform with useful information, especially historical and cultural.
* The confraternity of Madrid has created a very useful web site(in Spanish) with links to other confraternities and web sites about various routes.
*For history and culture, you might want to try:
*An excellent starting point for someone gathering information on land transportation to a trailhead and home, or some other point along the Camino Francés. In Spanish:
* Another site set up exclusively with links can be found at the following address.
*Linda Davidson, through the support of the University of Rhode Island, has set up a list serve sponsored by the Friends of the Road to Santiago. To sign up, e-mail to listserv@pete.uri.edu. In the message area write only: subscribe gocamino and your name. Be sure to turn off any automatic signature. You will receive a reply with all the necessary information about how to receive and send correspondence to the group and how to access the archives of previous discussions:
* If you are interested in the Codex Calixtino, you will find this on-line translation interesting. (It is in Spanish.)
* Amongst other information, Michel Beson has set up a page dedicated to music related to the Camino de Santiago.
* For a brief glance at information on hiking routes on foot in France, this is a good starting point.
* For a brief glance at the Portuguese Route in Galicia, with an alternate route along the Vú} de al Plata, you can take a look at this site.
* For a brief glance at various routes in Portugal along the Camino Portugues, you might like to check this site. The site is in Portuguese.
* For a at a nice web site set up by Maria Schell and her family, you can check out www.caminopilgrim.net. In addition to some basic packing and reference information, it includes a nice FAQ sheet.
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