This Saturday, July 25, is the day on which the Catholic Church commemorates the feast of Santiago Apostle. It is usually a special day for pilgrims what do the Santiago’s road towards the Galician city of Santiago de Compostela and we wonder How is the new normal affecting this activity? We have asked you in Today for Today Cuenca to the president of the association of Friends of the Camino de Santiago de Cuenca Pepe Cava.
Listen The Ruta de la Lana de Cuenca keeps the pilgrims’ shelters closed in Play SER
Interview with Pepe Cava in Hoy por Hoy Cuenca. / Paco Auñón
–
This summer, pilgrims who decide to walk through the Wool Route they will meet the closed shelters.
Plan of the Wool Route. / Friends of the Camino de Santiago de Cuenca Association
It is one of the measures taken by the associations that manage them in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. The Wool Route is one of the Ways of Santiago that cross Castilla-La Mancha. Recovered at the end of the nineties by the pilgrims of Cuenca, crosses this province from Valencia and Albacete, to later enter the province of Guadalajara and continue, for Soria, until Burgos, where it links to the French Way.
On the occasion of the pandemic, the associations of Friends of the Camino de Santiago de Requena, Albacete, Novelda and Cuenca, who manage the lodges on the route, decided last spring to keep them closed this summer. Pepe Cava, explains that they are not “In a position to guarantee the security established by the new normal.”
–Castle of Monteagudo de las Salinas (Cuenca) on the Ruta de la Lana. / Tourism of Castilla-La Mancha.
On the Lana route, as it passes through the province of Cuenca, an average of about 250 pilgrims pass each year.
–
–
