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Codex Calixtinus Synopsis: A key and foundational text of the European identity. This Book V of the “Calixtinus Codex” is the first guide that describes the Camino de Santiago and its goal. Elaborated around the year 1140, probably by Aymeric Picaud, a French monk, it is also the first travel book of the Old Continent.	The Pilgrimage The pilgrim, or The Pilgrim of Compostela, is a novel by Paulo Coelho that narrates in first person the vicissitudes of the pilgrimage of the author on the Camino de Santiago, as it is known to an ancient medieval route which began to travel from the French town of Saint Jean Pied-de-Port. A contemporary quest for ancient wisdom by Paulo Coelho.	The Camino This is the story of a journey. For Shirley, the Camino was both an intense spiritual and physical challenge. With rich insight, humility, and her trademark grace, Shirley MacLaine gently leads us on a sacred adventure toward an inexpressibly transcendent climax. The Camino promises readers the journey of a thousand lifetimes.
Guidebooks with information about the different Caminos: maps, length of the stages, difficulties, accommodations, bars and restaurants, …	Poems Rosalía Castro de Murguía better known as Rosalía de Castro (24 February 1837 – 15 July 1885) was a Spanish writer and poet. A native of Santiago de Compostela in the Galicia region of northwest Spain, she wrote in both Galician and Castilian. Rosalia de Castro, is today considered one of the outstanding figures of nineteeth-century Spanish literature. Her poetry, often compared to that of Emily Dickinson, is characterized by an intimate lyricism, simple diction, and innovative prosody. Writing in the Galician language, after the Séculos Escuros (Dark Centuries), she became an important figure of the Galician romantic movement, known today as the Rexurdimento ("renaissance"). Her poetry is marked by 'saudade', an almost ineffable combination of nostalgia, longing and melancholy. Her home in Padron is preserved as a museum. The Portuguese Camino passes next to it. She is buried in the Pantheon of the Illustrious Gallegos in Santiago de Compostela.	Journey to the Alcarria Camilo José Cela Born on May 11, 1916, in Iria Flavia in the Galician province of Coruña to a Spanish father and English mother, Cela studied medicine, philosophy and law in Madrid before being drawn into the civil war. He then tried his hand at bullfighting, painting and acting before devoting himself to literature. Camilo José Cela was well known in his native Spain for his sardonic humor and irascible personality as well as for his writing. In 1989, he won the Nobel Prize of Literature. Although relatively unknown in the English-speaking world when he won the Nobel Prize. Cela made his reputation with his first , and many say his best novel, ''The Family of Pascual Duarte,'' which is said to be the most widely translated Spanish novel after Cervantes's ''Don Quixote.'' Among his other popular books, ''The Hive,'' ''Mazurka for Two Dead Men,'' ''San Camilo, 1936'' and ''Journey to the Alcarría'' have also been translated into English. He died in Madrid at the age of 85 and was buried in the cemetery of his hometown. The Portuguese Camino passes next to it.
About the Basque Country An insight into the culture, history, society and institutions of the Basque Country. Published by the Basque Government (2009)	The Pintxo Trail A selection of 100 bars in San Sebastian that mentions the history of the place and recommends its emblematic pintxos.	Bilbao & San Sebastián A pocket guidebook of Bilbao and San Sebastian by Lonely Planet.
Slacker Pilgrim Synopsis: Half travel tips and half travel memoir, The Slacker Pilgrim Guide to the Camino de Santiago is a humorous book about the famous pilgrim trail across the north of Spain. In April and May 2012, Sunshine Jen walked 550 miles on the ´French Way´ to Santiago de Compostela then onto Finisterre on the coast. She went looking for answers, but she came back with more questions and no blisters.	Women of the Way “Women of the Way: Embracing the Camino” is a heartfelt and personal story of hiking the Camino de Santiago. An incredible 500 mile journey across Northern Spain. In 2011, Jane V. Blanchard hiked from St. Jean Pied-de-Port in France over the Pyrenees to Roncesvalles in Spain, and then westward across Northern Spain to Santiago de Compostela.	Basque If you visit the Basque Country, you will undoubtedly fall in love. Located on the Spanish-French border in Northern Spain, it is home to some of the world's finest restaurants, spectacular modern architecture and dramatic scenery.

The Way "The Way" is a powerful and inspirational story about family, friends, and the challenges we face while navigating this ever-changing and complicated world. Martin Sheen plays Tom, who comes to St. Jean Pied de Port, France to collect the remains of his adult son, killed in the Pyrenees in a storm while walking the Camino de Santiago. Rather than return home, Tom decides to embark on the historical pilgrimage to honor his son's desire to finish the journey. What Tom doesn't plan on is the profound impact the journey will have on him. From the unexpected and, oftentimes, amusing experiences along "The Way," Tom begins to learn what it means to be a citizen of the world again. Through his unresolved relationship with his son, he discovers the difference between "the life we live and the life we choose."	Footprints FOOTPRINTS is a documentary film based on the story of 11 men who walked the Camino del Norte, the Way of St. James to reach Santiago de Compostela, where the remains of St. James the Greater lie. FOOTPRINTS crosses the Basque Country, Cantabria, Asturias, Galicia, … The road taken by the protagonists, The Camino del Norte, also known as The Northern or Coastal Camino in Spain, was declared World Heritage by UNESCO in 2015. Other routes passed through Navarre, Castile, Aragon, La Rioja, … The Camino starts in Spain, France, Portugal,… all the routes compete in beauty and share the same destiny: the tomb of the Apostle Santiago, St. James the Greater.
the Milky Way The Milky Way (Luis Buñuel, 1969-105´) is constructed in the manner of picaresque tales. Two men go to Santiago de Compostela, Spain, not for the pilgrimage, but with the intention of robbing some pilgrims. Peter is old and a believer; Jean is young and atheist. They will make disturbing encounters there, some symbolic (God the father who separates into three characters when they leave them), the others making them travel in space as in time. The film is dotted with numerous citations in the twinkling of an eye to discerning viewers in theology. Although the film has several levels of reading, it remains accessible to the greatest number. Most of the great heresies are evoked, as well as the relationship between religion and social order (restaurant scene, intervention of the police ...) or private life (hotel scene) in an often dreamlike climate as it is customary at Buñuel. The film ends with an image of blind people who, their path blocked by a tiny ditch where their cane is lost, cannot follow Jesus teaching.	Saint Jacques ... La Mecque Coline Serreau ( 2005-110´). At the death of their mother, three brothers who detest each other and hate walking, discover that they will only collect the inheritance if they go together and on foot from Le Puy-en-Velay, France, to Santiago de Compostela, Spain, on pilgrimage. Forced to walk, this film reflects the different attitudes and the varied world of pilgrims.
Three on the Way Three on the Way (Laurence Boulting, 2004 - 148´) A Japanese poetess, a Dutch social worker and a young Brazilian woman independently visit Santiago de Compostela, Spain, in winter, spring and summer. They follow the path that Apostle Saint James the Greater, took during his pilgrimage there. This trip will change them. These pilgrims, not professional actors, bring freshness in a real context through their own reflections and as a consequence of the situations lived in this Camino experience.	Walking the Camino Walking the Camino. Six ways to Santiago (Lydia B. Smith, 2013–84´) This multi-award winning documentary sensitively explores the human face of the Camino and its transformative power. Along the 800 km of the French Way, from Saint Jean Pied de Port to Santiago de Compostela, six real stories are collected from six pilgrims of different ages, nationalities, cultural levels, social position, beliefs and motivations, and their personal experience on the inner journey to find one´s self.

Iacobus Magnus Iacobus Magnus is an album by the Galician traditional music group Milladoiro, recorded in Galicia and England in 1994. It was commissioned by the Consortium of the City of Santiago de Compostela as a commemoration of the Jubilee Year.	La Tuna de Derecho “La Tuna de Derecho de Santiago de Compostela” is a musical group formed by students of the Faculty of Law that has its origin in the sixteenth century. Every night, May to Octuber, they perform from 10 pm in the arcades of the Plaza del Obradoiro in Santiago.	Compostelle Anne undertook The Camino to Santiago de Compostela alone in September 2015, from her family home in the French Basque Country to Santiago de Compostela and from there to Finisterre, the end of the earth.
Cristina Pato Cristina Pato, (born Ourense, 1980) is a Spanish bagpiper, pianist and composer who has lived in New York city since 2004. She released her first album, titled “Tolemia” (1999), at the age of 18. With that album she became the first woman to record a solo album as a “gaiteira” (woman bagpiper), in Galicia.	Grupo de Cámara La Música en el Camino de Santiago by Grupo Universitario de Cámara de Compostela. The University Group of the Chamber of Compostela interprets and also performs research work on medieval and Renaissance Galician and Spanish music.	Tierra de Nadie José Angel HEVIA Velasco, (Asturias, 1967), known by the stage name of HEVIA, is a bagpipe musician. He is also famous for inventing with Alberto Arias y Miguel Dopico the “Multitimbral Electronic Bagpipe”, MIDI, and specially for his albums in which the bagpipe fuses with all kind of sounds.
BENITO LERTXUNDI Is a Basque singer-songwriter, self-taught and nonconformist who has traveled his own path for more than 50 years, without submitting to fads or orthodoxies. His mother tongue is Basque language.	THE ORFEÓN DONOSTIARRA Is a centennial amateur choral institution founded in San Sebastián in 1897. It has an extensive list of prizes and awards that endorse it as one of the most important choral groups in the world.	KALAKAN Is a Basque-French music group formed in 2009. It is characterized by its minimalist arrangements (voices, percussions) of the traditional Basque repertoire. In Basque, Kalakan means "chatting".
HUNTZA Is a Basque rock group formed by 6 young people, two women and four men, from the province of Gipuzkoa, although the group was created in Bilbao in 2014. Voices, tambourine, trikitixa, violin, electric and acoustic guitar, bass and drums.	KEPA JUNKERA (Bilbao, April 10, 1965) is a Basque musician, composer and producer of Basque folk music. He is a ´Master of trikitixa´, small accordion played along with a tambourine, it is the type of music that this couple creates which is called with the onomatopoeic name "trikiti".