Vacation on the Coast (Muxia)

Muxia, Part 1

To celebrate our Camino, we took a bus to the Spanish coastal towns of Muxia and Finisterre.

Muxía (pronounced moo-SHEE-ah), Spain is one of the popular seaside sites that shouldn't be missed at the end of your pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago. It is a most sacred place, rife with legend, natural beauty and a unique and intimate ambiance.

If you have seen the movie “The Way” After the group arrives at Santiago de Compostela, Tom is ultimately accompanied to Muxía by the other three members. There, he scatters the remainder of Daniel's ashes in the Atlantic Ocean.

As the legend goes, the Virgin Mary herself met St. James at this very site and helped and encouraged him in his preaching throughout Galicia.

It is also believed that by a miracle of God, the body of the saint, after his beheading at the hands of the Romans, was carried in a boat back to Muxía where it was discovered many years later and taken to Santiago.Read more