Xacobeo 2010. The Milky Way

Xacobeo 2010 Now is when, Gallicia is where.
The Milky Way in the Middle Age was very crowded, later it was forgotten lightly and in the current epoch it has taken a big heyday again, has been declared by the UNESCO Patrimony of the Humanity.

There is a Holy Year Xacobeo the year in which on July 25 (festivity of Apostle Santiago) it falls down in Sunday. The next one will not be even in 11 years, for it this year there is a good motive for visiting Gallicia. In the holy year the pilgrims to Santiago can gain the jubilee visiting the grave of Apostle Santiago in the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela.
For his historical and spiritual transcendency, the Milky Way represents a milestone in the evolution of the western Culture, a millennial tie established between the different peoples of an Europe that, in the central centuries of the Middle Age, pilgrim does to herself and directs his steps towards the Hispanic finisterre to visit the grave of Apostle Santiago. Concerning this tomb he was constructing himself a cathedral and arranging a city, in order to shelter the sacred relics, to attend to the requirements of the cult jacobeo and to prepare appropriately the arrival of the pilgrims who, already in the Xth century, were coming to Locus Sancti Iacobi of the Christian Spain and of other parts of Europe. With the time, most of the grounds of Occident managed to be related thanks to the welfare infrastructure, devocional and of thought formed by the ways of peregrination and turning into the principal route of European cultural transmission.
From the Holy Year 1982, a new resurgence lives through the way with the rehabilitation and valuation of the Milky Way like cultural property. A patrimony that materializes in the physical infrastructure and in his historical-artistic monumental wealth intimately tied to the spiritual, hospitable demand and of services needed for peculiar and devout. Known it is that, along this sacred itinerary, there arose cathedrals, monasteries, churches, chapels, hospitals, towns, villages, defensive sets, bridges and, finally, a big number of historical places children of the peregrination to Santiago and that in the holy years it complements itself with a rich cultural offer.