A journey to the end of the world

Take a walk with Liz O’ Brien to the literal end of the earth at Finisterre, on the rugged Atlantic coast of Galicia in Spain, where for centuries pilgrims have completed the Camino de Santiago.

THE Camino Way has existed for centuries and one of its routes, The Way of St James, was one of the world’s most important Christian pilgrimages in medieval times.

In less than a decade the number of Irish pilgrims walking the Way of St James — or Camino de Santiago in Spanish — has increased almost ten-fold, from 563 pilgrims in 2004 to 5012 last year.