The Way of St. James or the Pilgrims' Route to Santiago de Compostela
The tomb of the Apostle St. James in Compostela has been the destination of pilgrims from all over the world since the Middle Ages.
Undoubtedly, the most traditionally rooted route is the French Way. But to reach it, pilgrims had to follow other secondary routes, such as the Jacobean Route of the Ebro. Pilgrims from the Mediterranean consolidated this route along the Ebro from Tortosa to Gandesa, Caspe, Zaragoza, Tudela, Alfaro and Calahorra to Logroño. It is really the Roman road that for more than two thousand years has linked Tarraco with Astorga, a historic communications axis that reveals to the traveller the lands and people of Catalonia, Aragon, Navarre and La Rioja.
