THE SLOVENIAN JACOB'S ROUTE, PART OF THE EUROPEAN CULTURAL ROUTE
CAMINO SLOVENIA
THE SLOVENIAN JACOB'S ROUTE PART OF THE EUROPEAN Camino
A European map of the Ways of Jacob and a map of Spanish routes to the famous city of Santiago de Comopostela in the north-west of Spain led routes from all parts of Europe in the Middle Ages, as can be seen from the maps of the time. Guest houses, churches, chapels, fortresses, bridges were built for pilgrims along the old Roman and new roads... New towns were also created along the Camino. Already in the Middle Ages, the Camino was a pillar of integration and unification of European countries and nations. In 1985, the Council of Europe proclaimed this unique route through northern Spain as the first cultural route of united Europe and therefore significantly financially supports the construction and renovation of lodgings (refuges/alberges) for pilgrims (peregrines) and the maintenance of the route itself._cc781905-5cde-3194-bb3b- 136bad5cf58d_
EUROPEAN ROUTES THAT LEAD TO COMPOSTELLA IN THE MIDDLE AGES
Members of the Society of Friends of St. Jakob in Slovenia, who made a pilgrimage along the Spanish Camino, when they returned home, they asked themselves the question of where the pilgrimage routes through Slovenian land to distant Compostela took place in the Middle Ages. A few years after the founding of the association, they started research. They looked for churches dedicated to St. Jacob the Elder in Slovenia. The basis for delineating the route was the International Guide to European Routes, which was published as part of the cultural routes program of the Council of Europe in Paris in 2002. This also indicates the route through Slovenia, which leads from Zagreb to Parma. The members of the association searched for paths and tracks and, after several years of work in the field, marked the three branches of Jacob's Way, which, with a total length of 750 km, form the so-called Slovenian Jacob's Cross. Along the footpath, the bicycle section of the association traced and marked the Slovenian bicycle path of Jacob. The Šentjakob or central walking and cycling route was drawn on the Slovenian map in 2010, the Višar route in 2012 and the Prekmursko-Štajerska route in 2014. The Slovenian Jakob route has thus once again become part of the modern European Camino. _cc781905- 5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_
Since 2021, the administrator of the Jakob's cycling route is the independent Dustvo kolesarska Jakobova pot Slovenija - Camino.
European routes, guide, Paris 2002
