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Camino de Santiago - Walking with the Stars by Christoph Lingg
To the End of the Earth on the St. James Trail from Santiago to Finisterre.
The sea, stretching out into the distance. And then, somewhere out there, nothing. The water suddenly comes to an end and an abyss of oblivion opens up. Anyone who falls into it is lost forever. For thousands of years people feared this point in the ocean where the bottom dropped out of the world. The place from which one could look out toward this horror was called Finisterre, the end of the earth. And where was it? On the most western point of the Iberian Peninsula, everyone believed, on a cape of the Galician coastline. A magical place – and for centuries the goal of pilgrims who made their way to Santiago de Compostela on the St. James Trail. After they got to Santiago, they wanted to press on further, to go all the way to the sea and see what the end of the earth looked like. The old trails from Santiago to the cape are still known, but hardly anyone ever uses them anymore.
