English Language Broadcast - 30 years since St James' Way was named World Heritage Site - 12/12/2023
Description
El Camino de Santiago (or, as English-speakers know it, Saint James' Way) is a pilgrimage that traverses the top reaches of the Spain's Peninsula all the way to the city of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia. The oldest iteration of this long path, this camino, begins in France, and is known as The French Way. The eleventh of December marks 30 years since this particular pilgrimage was recognized as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. We talked with pilgrim Juan Camaño, of the Spanish Federation of Associations of Friends of the Camino de Santiago, about the origins of this route and pilgrimage, and how it survived all these years and is still walked today by people from all over the world.
After that... The Berlin Wall: A World Divided is an exhibition currently running in Madrid, and is the first (according to the President of the Berlin Wall Foundation, Axel Klausmeier) to place the Iron Curtain in its global context. We hear from the Foundation President at an act celebrating the new exhibition.
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