US EditionWorst Spanish Wildfires on Record Force Part of Camino Pilgrimage Route to Close
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The flames razed more than 382,000 hectares in 2025 and authorities confirmed that the heat wave left 1149 dead
Local Civil Protection has told those who are making it stop and those who have planned to cancel it.
Worst Spanish wildfires on record force part of Camino pilgrimage route to close
Spain’s worst wave of wildfires on record spread to the southern slopes of the Picos de Europa mountains yesterday and prompted authorities to close part of the popular Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route.
The wave of unprecedented fires that is scourged in the northwest of Spain, transforming vast areas and natural parks of Galicia, Asturias, Castile and Leon and Extremadura into a hell of flames and smoke and ash deserts. (ANSA)
The first Galician village of the French Way dawned in silence, or with testimonies that narrated an apocalyptic panorama of those people who arrived on foot crossing El Bierzo
The Civil Protection and Crisis Management Office in the Spanish autonomous community of Castile and León has urgently appealed to pilgrims to interrupt their journey along the Way of St. James. In a statement posted on social media on Sunday, August 17, it stated that continuing the journey poses a risk to life due to severe forest fires. The northern sections of Spain's famous pilgrimage route, from Astorga through Ponferrada and Bembibre to V…
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