Santiago (St James) was a Chirist's disciple and he was preaching over the Iberian Peninsula following his commandment. It is told that the Virgin appeared him on the banks of the Ebro River.
Santiago returned to Palestine and he was decapitated by Herod Agripa (AD 42). Santiago was the first apostle martyred because of his faith.
His disciples shipped his body to Northwestern Spain and he was buryed right in the place where the cathedral was later builded. This sacred sepulchre soon became a pilgrimage place for Christians.
In 859 (during the Arab ocupation of Spain) a small Christian force entrusted to the blessed apostle before fighting and they defeated a large arab army.

Since then, Apostle Santiago became the protector of the Christian forces in the Reconquest against the Arabs.
From the Reconquest will born the Kingdom of Spain; and so Apostle Santiago is the patron saint of Spain.


The French Trail .

There was a traveler, Aymerico Picaud, French monk that bequeathed us in the XII century the chronicle of their pilgrimage. This route has been ended up distinguishing as the "French Road", the route jacobea par excellence, the better known and trafficked.

It enters in Spain for Roncesvalles, crossing lands of Navarrese, The Rioja, Castile and León, for, following the stars, to begin in Galicia through the mountains of the Ancares and of the green cathedral of the Caurel, taking to the pilgrims until the end of the well-known world (where the earth died in the sea or it existed the star of the Milky Way finishes according to the Celtic ones, denominated on the way to the Rainbow).