The English Way, in addition to being one of the oldest routes to get to Santiago, is a good example of the relationship that Galicia had with the English, Irish and other European peoples for centuries. In order to promote this access route and pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, the Provincial Council of La Coruña has prepared a book that compiles all the experiences that the traveler can find along this route, from the disembarkation at the Curuxeiras dock in Ferrol, or in the Coruña Plaza de María Pita, until the end of the route at the Cathedral of Santiago.
Rafael Vallejo , a member of the Turhis Group, has participated in the two editions of this guidebook (English and Spanish) with the chapter entitled "The British pilgrimage of 1909: pilgrims and tourists." The book is illustrated with beautiful color photographs and includes a basic mapping "The English Way" and offers, in addition to basic information about shelters and other servi-ts essential for pilgrims, the narration of facts his-toric that followed the passage of this route: shipwrecks, myths, the first British pilgrimage after the Protestant Reformation, etc.
This work shows that the English Way is a particularly important route due to its historical content and because it exceeds other medieval roads to Compostela in antiquity. Already in the Iron Age there was a fluid corridor that communicated Galicia with the British Isles, leaving signs of a relationship that today explains traditions and common customs in an astonishing way. To travel this route today is to travel the history of Europe through Roman remains, examples of medieval social organization with its feudal lords, monasteries and popular revolts, and a multitude of events that show the British and Irish influence in Galicia.
