On Thursday, 6 February, from 5 to 6.30 p.m., anyone interested is invited to a lecture on the Way of St James in course room 4.07 of the Chemnitz Adult Education Centre in the TIETZ. Speaker Hannu Sirkkilä from Chemnitz's twin city Tampere will talk about Europe's best-known and most popular pilgrimage route under the title "Myths and stories of a pilgrimage route". The 90-minute lecture will focus on the history of the Way of St James (Spanish: Camino de Santiago) and its long development up to its current popularity.
Participation costs 8 euros. Registration is possible by telephone on 0371 488 4343 and online.
The Way of St James consists of several routes, all of which end in the city of Santiago de Compostela in Spain. Every year, over 400,000 people walk and make pilgrimages along these routes, around 25,000 of them from Germany. They all have different motivations for the long hike - and not just religious ones. For many, it is an inner journey that promises new and unexpected experiences.
Speaker Hannu Sirkkilä is a course leader at the adult education centre in Tampere, the Finnish twin city of Chemnitz. He himself has already completed several pilgrimages on the Way of St James. Hannu Sirkkilä's master's thesis in ethnology focussed on the various meanings of the Way of St. James.
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