PLETTENBERG BAY NEWS - Plettenberg Bay’s first “Camino” has been labelled a massive success after eight “pilgrims” walked their way through some of the area’s most breathtaking nooks and crannies.
The idea behind the original Camino was born in the ninth century after the discovery of the relics of Saint James the Great.
Initially named the Way of St James in English, it became a major pilgrimage route for medieval Christianity from the 10th century onward. In 1492, the Camino de Santiago was officially declared one of the "three great pilgrimages of Christendom", along with Jerusalem and the Via Francigena to Rome.
It involves a network of pilgrimages leading to the shrine of the apostle Saint James the Great in the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia in north-western Spain.
In Plettenberg Bay however, the journey took on a slightly a different form, being a five-day pilgrimage through the forests and highlands of the greater Plettenberg Bay region.
Read more on Thursday.
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