A Coruña, Spain

We arrived this morning at A Coruña, a town of some 250,000 people. Earlier, the town was referred to as the "City at the End of the World" because it was the most northwestern city of the Iberian peninsula.

We took a 7-hour excursion today: "A Day in Santiago de Compostela". Construction of the cathedral began in 1075 and was completed in 1211. It is also among the few remaining churches in the world built over the tomb of an apostle.

Santiago de Compostela is the culmination of a 1500 KM-long pilgrimage to the burial place of St. James. The route is an extensive interconnected network of pilgrimage routes in Spain whose ultimate destination is the tomb of the Apostle James the Greater.

The tomb believed to be that of James the Greater was discovered in Galicia in the 9th century, a period when Spain was dominated by Muslims. Its discovery was of immense importance for the Christian world, and Compostela soon became a place of Christian pilgrimage comparable in importance to Jerusalem and Rome.Read more