
Category
Pilgrimage Routes
Roads walked by the faithful for a thousand years.
4 destinations
4/5 SignificanceSantiago de Compostela, Spain
Camino de Santiago
Eight hundred kilometres across northern Spain to the shrine of St James — the pilgrimage that never went out of use.
4/5 · Major biblical site
4/5 SignificanceJerusalem, Israel
Via Dolorosa
Fourteen stations threaded through the crowded lanes of the Muslim Quarter, ending inside the Holy Sepulchre.
4/5 · Major biblical site
3/5 SignificanceRome, Italy
Via Francigena
Sigeric the Serious walked home from Rome to Canterbury in 990 and wrote down every stop — the itinerary is still walkable.
3/5 · Well attested
3/5 SignificanceTrondheim, Norway
St Olav's Way
The northernmost pilgrimage in Christendom: 640 kilometres from Oslo over the mountains to Olav's shrine at Nidaros.
3/5 · Well attested