Pilgrimage with Simon Reeve on BBC 2 Tonight 6/3/18

Tonight on BBC2 at 15:50 is another chance to see episode 2 of Pilgrimage with Simon Reeve; this is the episode which features the Camino.

Image taken from http://www.liontv.com/Our-Work/Documentaries/Pilgrimage-with-Simon-Reeve

According to the BBC website Simon 'visits a Church with a bizzare display of live chickens' (Santo Domingo I guess), visits hostels (from watching it before I remember him visiting one on the Meseta) and meets some Pilgrims.

He then heads to Santiago Cathedral for the Pilgrim's Mass - having watched the programme before this gives a nice, although short, overview of the Camino Frances and is worth a watch.

This episode Simon also visits the Great St Bernard Pass on the Pilgrimage to Rome and goes to the east of Italy to the Shrine of the monk Padre Pio who died in 1968 before arriving in Rome.

Episode 3 is on tomorrow (Wednesday) at 15:55 and follows Simon on the route to Jerusalem following a similarly shortened route to the one he uses on the Camino as he starts in Istanbul in turkey which was a staging post for the Pilgramage to the Holy Land in Mediaeval times before he goes to the West Bank and then on to Jerusalem. he finishes the programme by walking the Via Dolorosa, the route followed by Jesus as he carried his cross to the crucifixion.

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The Camino Primitivo

The Camino Primitivo (or the Original Way) is reportedly the very first Camino Way to Santiago in the 9 th century when most of Spain was under the control of the Moors and it runs from near the city of Ovideo in Asturias as it starts in Villavicosa (which also lies on the Camino Norte so many people follow this Way from Basque city of San Sebastian (Donosti in Basque) or in from the French border at Irun ( this route then hugs the Bay of Biscay passing through Guernica, Bilbao, Santander, Llanes before going under the Picos de Europa and then heads along the coast to Ovideo) before branching off onto the Primitivo which goes across the mountains and through the city of Lugo before joining the Frances at Melide. The route is 320km long. Image taken from https://viaalpina2013.wordpress.com/2013/04/14/camino-del-norte-camino-primitivo/

Symbols of the three main Christian Pilgrimages

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Camino Mascot

Those who have walked the Camino will probably have seen one or more of the Camino mascots along the Way but do you know their names? http://m.elcorreogallego.es/xacobeo/ecg/xubi-jubila-pelegrin-mascota-xacobea/idEdicion-2010-06-08/idNoticia-555962/

On the Camino

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