1. European culture route Pilgrim trails

3. http://culture- routes.net/news/tourism-and- council-europe-cultural-routes- finding-strategies-and-synergies- european-cultural

6. Santiago de Compostela. Pilgrimages in northwest Spain around Santiago de Compostela is very old. These routes have been people on the legs since the year 813 in the neighborhood discovered a tomb they believed belonged to the apostle James.

7. Between Camino de Santiago and Nidaros Småland, is a part of the vast network of hiking trails; 400 mil from Santiago de Compostela in Spain to Trondheim, the old Nidaros in Norway

9. We formed a steering committee of the Administrative Board, region, tourism, entrepreneurs in the restaurant and accommodation

12. S:ta Marias Church is located in the monastery

13. Symbols

15. Lena Gemzöe Centre for Gender Studies, Stockholm University. Who is it that hiking and why? »Reemergence of religion as a social force in Europe?« Norface, European Science Foundation. Antropolog from Ireland and Netherlands

16. Pilgrim Hikers in modern times looking perhaps less forgiveness and more thought, inner peace, beautiful scenery and great wines. All also get a friendly welcome in all the small hostels which are in villages and small towns along the way, offering good food and accommodation. All that can show that they have passed the final ten mile to Santiago de Compostela receive a pilgrim's passport

17. However, the very heterogeneity of pilgrimage to Santiago in terms of the pilgrims’ motives, nationalities, beliefs and ways of performing the pilgrimage makes it clear that this »re-emerging religion« defies any conventional definition of religion.

18. Generally a woman who walks alone It was this phenomenon that interested us the most. How could it be that women crossed the Pyrenees themselves? At home, one can hardly go on a cultural events without a friend!

19. Literature important for pilgrim

20. Lena Gemzöe argue that a circular process between reading, writing and journeying, which has been seen as characteristic of European travelling practices in general and Christian pilgrimage in particular, is a key component in the Swedish reanimation of the Santiago pilgrimage.

21. Who is it that hiking and why? The number of Swedish pilgrims who undertake the journey is still small, but it has increased in the last decade. can ask questions about the nature of God and religion, without interference by the institution of the Church New Age– inspired mysticism of the road to Santiago

22. Many hikes arranged for groups. Sometimes the purpose of influencing.

23. For example EKO walking from Uppsala to the climate meeting in Paris

25. Holy places and monasteries must be included on the route must be approved

26. Excavations from Jönköping two years ago where there was a monastery in 1400´s. Many names of streets and lakes bear witness to that time

27. We visited Norway

29. Sisterkirkene and the storytelling

31. Planning for a new pilgrimscentrum in Nydala

32. Pilgrimspass

33. Education for B&B

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