Don Quijote pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela

“…in a bookstore dedicated to second-hand books, which I accessed with the desire to buy something, I came across a book titled Estrada de Santiago by a Portuguese writer, Aquilino Ribeiro, very important in his country but truly unknown in Spain. I bought it for nothing more than that, for the title, whose meaning is explained very succinctly in the dedication that the author makes of the work to a curious man of Portuguese literature., who never wrote a book, Gualdino Gomes. What would not be my surprise, nothing strange having learned later that the author translated Don Quixote, when I came across the last story in the book titled D. Quixote against Herod, in which it describes the journey of the famous knight and his squire to Santiago de Compostela in the month of December. Since we're already on our way, at last, it was a new Holy Year, I have considered it appropriate to record the discovery, thus coinciding with the time in which what is narrated in this work is located”.

Dr. Manuel Pombo Arias.

Source and more information: The Galician Post