2002 Pilgrims

[Maura Santangelo]

Rosina,

thank you for all this wonderful information: I have been wanting to
start from Italy, but am having difficulty getting the maps for the
European trails in Italy: does the magazine say where the 27 pilgrims
who came from Italy started from?? Or does anyone on this listserv have
any idea where to get maps of the European walking trails?

Thanks for any clues

Maura
On Tuesday, February 11, 2003, at 11:09 AM, Rosina Lila wrote:

> Hello you all,
> The Compostela magazine shows 102 different points of pilgrimage
> departure;
> most are, naturally, in Spain itself. But many pilgrims are listed as
> commencing the pilgrimage in other countries.
>
> The largest number of pilgrims, 9,311, started out in Sarria which is
> the
> most convenient point for those pilgrims who only walk the last 100
> kilometers.  The other most popular points were, in descending order:
> Roncesvalles with 7,545; Saint Jean Pied de Port with 6,974, O
> Cebreito with
> 5,885; Ponferrada with 5,628; Leon with 5,120; Astorga with 4,382;
> Pamplona
> with 2,384; and Burgos with 2,270.
> Besides those beginning the pilgrimage at SJPP,  1,695 pilgrims are
> listed as
> starting out in Le Puy, 29 in Paris and 1,132 in other places in
> France.
> 492 pilgrims started out in Holland, 367 in Germany, 273 in Belgium,
> and 27
> in Italy.
> Three pilgrims began the pilgrimage in Poland,  three in Jordan,  one
> in
> Luxembourg, one in Hungary and one in Lithuania.
> If you want specific information about a town or country not listed
> above,
> let me know.
> It is worthy of notice, to me, to know that 762 pilgrims commenced
> their
> pilgrimage in Somport, 271 in Jaca and 467 in Sevilla.  -Both the
> Aragonese
> part of the French Way and the Silver Way are longer that the French
> Way-
> Again, let me know if there is anything else you'd like to know about
> the
> 2002 pilgrims.
> Warm regards from a presently freezing New York City.
> Rosina
>