Cathedral of Romanesque, Gothic and Baroque style, in its side Chapel it houses the Holy Chalice (Grail) of the Last Supper
The only Church dedicated to St Paul in Tarsus, his birthplace, still standing in the region. The building hosts today a Museum
In a way, pilgrimages are as old as mankind. Being at the very base of ancient traditions still practiced and preserved by millions of people, pilgrimages are far from being…
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Ignacio de Loyola, the founder of the powerful Society of Jesus, lived for two years as a beggar in Barcelona, near the Cathedral of Santa María del Mar. Find out…
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.