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Camino Portugués, Etapa 3
18 Kilometers on the Way to Santiago (Camino de Santiago, Portuguese Route, Stage 3)

May 5th 2017
My time in Galicia/Spain is nearing an end. I’ve lived in Galicia around 15 months in total, so I figured it was time to do some of the Camino de Santiago. If you haven’t heard of it, it’s an increasingly popular pilgrimage route that leads to the city of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia. People have been traversing it since the Middle Ages for religious purposes (they say St. James the ... read more
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Spanish Flag Spain's powerful world empire of the 16th and 17th centuries ultimately yielded command of the seas to England. Subsequent failure to embrace the mercantile and industrial revolutions caused the country to fall behind Britain, France, and Germany in ... ... read more
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