The Jubilee Year Lebaniego concluded but the road continues
In april concluded the Jubilee Year Lebaniego but that doesn’t mean that just because the path that leads up to the Monastery of Santo Toribio de Liébana remains, as well as keep their infrastructures, their shelters and services of all kinds to give response to the visitors.
For this reason, the gates of Cantabria remain open for those who want to know this region enjoying the legacy, heritage and the values that make this region of Cantabria in “Land of Joy”, given that it does not have to be Jubilee Year to make the pilgrimage and live the experience of the path. They have been around one million pilgrims who have come closer until April of this year to the monastery lebaniego.
By land, sea and air, any means of transport is effective to come to Cantabria and if it matches in the Jubilee Year, as it has been since April 2017, this event becomes a good apology for its charms and a chance to win a jubilee that is celebrated when the Feast of Santo Toribio, 16 April, falls on a Sunday. The next will be in 2023.
This Event of Exceptional Public Interest, as it has been catalogd, goes back to the year 1512, date in which the Pope Julius II granted the privilege of holding the treasure the Cantabrian monastery, the Lignum Crucis, the piece of the Cross of Christ there is.
Since that time, Santo Toribio de Liébana became a pilgrimage center which can be reached through the two major paths that lead to the monastery: the road north of Santiago and the Way Lebaniego, both declared World Heritage of Humanity by Unesco.
Along the route that leads to the region of Liébana, there are many establishments in which strength and shelters in which to rest in addition to enclaves, places and landscapes that will no doubt make this trip an unforgettable experience and repeatable because, if something comes to visit Cantabria, is his desire to return to see her.
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