The Cathedral of Valencia houses a relic that may be the wineglass used by Jesus at the Last Supper: it is an Alexandrian piece from the first century.
Saint James’ cake is almost synonymous with Galicia. But the cake’s main ingredient, almonds, do not grow in the region.
For Abraham, the search for the promised land also became an existential search for the unknown, the transcendent, the radically other.
Whereas, literally speaking, the Latin word peregrinus means one who has come from afar, a pilgrim is not a just a tourist
The English word pilgrimage comes from the Latin peregrinatio, which strictly translates “to travel abroad,” most of the time to an unknown place.
Ancient Greeks would infuse white wine with wormwood already around 400BC, as a remedy for stomach aches and to get rid of intestinal parasites.
Garum - an ancient fermented fish sauce dating back to Roman times Fanfo - Shutterstock
Garum was the literally omnipresent ingredient of any dish in a Roman banquet.
A hiking trail runs through the places that the biblical text says that Jesus visited –the Jesus Trail.
The church that houses a rock on which Jesus multiplied the loaves and fishes, according to the Gospel of John, to feed 5,000 people