April 25, 2026 /  Members  /  Spain
Final meeting of the Creative Loci Iacobi Project

Final meeting of the Creative Loci Iacobi Project

Santiago de Compostela hosted the final meeting of the Creative Loci Iacobi project, on September 15. All project partners participated in the meeting with the aim of presenting the products developed and which will become new technological tools for pilgrims of the 21st century.

The Director of Tourism of Galicia, Nava Castro, participated in representation of the Xunta de Galicia (coordinators of the project), who highlighted the innovative and transnational nature of the project and its importance in the future Jacobean Smart Way.

New technological tools for pilgrims of the 21st century

The European project Creative Loci Iacobi aims to promote and give greater visibility to the roads of Santiago in Europe, using content and technologies augmented reality, virtual tours, video 360, sound immersive and storytelling that will make the information that is offered to the pilgrims more compressive and practical, as well as to potential tourists and other tourist agents along the roads of Santiago in Europe and the places of patrimony of the UNESCO on the Way.

With a duration of 18 months, Creative Loci Iacobi is a project financed by the program COSME 2014-2020

 


April 25, 2026 /  Members  /  Spain
The Creative Loci Iacobi project present at the Asturias International Trade Fair

The Creative Loci Iacobi project present at the Asturias International Trade Fair

Between 3 and 18 August 2019, the 63rd edition of the International Trade Fair of Asturias, one of the main exhibition events of the Northwest of Spain, was held in Gijón (in the region of Asturias), which on this occasion has been visited by 724,314 visitors. The Government of the Principality of Asturias has dedicated its pavilion to the Camino de Santiago, with the exhibition “The Way that was born in Asturias”, in which a complete tour of the history of the Jacobean routes was made from its origin to the present. In this Jacobean exhibition, a space has been dedicated to showcasing innovation projects related to the Camino de Santiago, among which the “Creative Loci Iacobi” initiative has played a leading role.

Asturias participates in “Creative Loci Iacobi” with a digitization project based on the Cathedral of Oviedo and its Holy Chamber, a place that’s intimately bound to the origins of the Jacobean phenomenon at the beginning of the ninth century, when in times of the Asturian Monarchy, the tomb of the Apostol Santiago was found in Compostela.

A virtual tour has been made around the Cathedral and its historical reliquary, the Holy Chamber, whichafter Santiago, was the second highest site of devotion and pilgrimage during the Middle Ages in Spain. Also included in the project, we can find 3D digitized models of the most outstanding art pieces found in the Holy Chamber: The Holy Ark (as seen before and after its restoration in 2017), The cross of the Angels and The Cross of Victory, The Agate Casket of Oviedo and the Nicodemus Christ.

3D digitized models of the most outstanding art pieces found in the Holy Chamber

High Definition photographs were taken of all of these items, allowing the creation of the 3D models using Photogrammetry Techniques which created High Resolution images with more than 1.000.000 vertexes per item, 200.000 in their adaptation form for mobile phone use.

The involvement of Asturias in this project also includes a creative map of fifty monuments associated with the routes of the “Camino de Santiago” that pass through Asturias (Primitivo Route, Coast Route and Salvador Route).

 


April 25, 2026 /  Lithuania  /  Members
The Federation holds its general assembly in Lithuania

The Federation holds its general assembly in Lithuania

The general assembly of the European Federation of the Saint James Way was held in 2019 in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius. The plenary session of the Jacob Road Federation General Assembly was held in Lithuania for the first time. Members of the Federation of Spain, Portugal, France, Belgium, Italy, Poland and Lithuania also visited the city of Kaunas and the Trakai pilgrimage center.

The federation meets its general assembly for the first time in Lithuania

In this seventh edition of the Jacob’s Road Federation General Assembly, Lithuania assumed the presidency from the hands of France. For a period of one year, the European St. Ryti Mykolas Račkauskas became the president of the Jacob’s Road Federation.

 


April 25, 2026 /  Members  /  Portugal
The Portuguese Federation of the Saint James Way was created

The Portuguese Federation of the Saint James Way was created

Pedras Salgadas agreed to the 17th of May the act of constitution of the Portuguese Federation of the Saint James Way, which is made up of 36 national entities, including municipalities and associations. The new federation, which aims to manage and promote the Santiago routes in Portugal, celebrated its first meeting with the election of its governing bodies, which will be chaired by the Municipality of Vila Pouca de Aguiar.

 

Saint James Way in the world

The act of constitution commenced with the unveiling of a commemorative plaque that followed a walk through Santiago. After the inauguration, the mayor of the town, Alberto Machado, the president of the European Federation of the Saint James Way, Jean Girodet, and more representatives of European, national and regional entities offered a token gift with musical accompaniment by a youth band Banda do Pontido.

As a result of the creation of the Portuguese Federation of the Camino de Santiago, the international seminar “Camino de Santiago, a way in the world” was also celebrated in the context of the European and world context of the Camino de Santiago.

 

 


April 25, 2026 /  Members  /  Netherlands
Working knowledge trip to VVV Zuid-Limburg

Working knowledge trip to VVV Zuid-Limburg

With the aim of exchanging knowledge and carrying out joint actions, the European Federation of Saint James Way visited the Dutch region of VVV Zuid-Limburg for the first time since joining.

In addition to holding a technical conference to analyze the projects and activities in which the Federation is involved and learn first-hand experiences of good practices in this region, for two days, the delegates of France, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Poland and Lithuania, developed a religious tourism program in southern Limburg and the Euro-region.

Delegates visited the underground Valkenburg, an exponent of the region’s religious past, St. Gerlach Castle with the Church of San Gerlaco as a place of pilgrimage, Rolduc Abbey (the largest abbey complex in Benelux), the historic center of the city from Sittard, the Basilica of Saint Servaas in Maastricht and the Basilica of Meerssen.

The delegation also learned about the religious heritage in Aachen, with the Church of St. Jacobs and the Aachen Cathedral as an exponent. The two-day visit ended with the presentation of a ‘plaque’ to Mayor Jos Hessels of Echt-Susteren in the Basilica of Susteren.

South Limburg: reflection and pilgrimage

Delegates expressed satisfaction with the way VVV Zuid-Limburg markets its past and religious heritage. VVV Zuid-Limburg considers it their task to put this region on the map as the destination for reflection and pilgrimage in the Netherlands and the Euro-region.

 

 


April 25, 2026 /  France  /  Members
First meeting with Abraham Path Initiative delegation

First meeting with Abraham Path Initiative delegation

The agglomeration community of Puy-en-Velay in partnership with the European Federation Saint James Way were on February 8, a delegation of Abraham Path Initiative. The visit was aimed at exchanging best practices development of the way of Saint James, cultural route by excellence. It was an opportunity to consider co-operation between the two routes as ‘mythical’.

Mythical routes

Madeleine RIGAUD Vice-President of the urban community, accompanied by Gérard Beaume, Coordinator of the European Federation of the Way of St James, welcomed Director George Rishmawi of the route ‘ Masar Ibrahim Al Khalil / / Path of Abraham ‘, Raphael Trouiller association Tetrakys and Martine Chaligné of AFRAT, animators of a programme of decentralized cooperation of tourism development sustainable in Palestine.

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April 25, 2026 /  Members  /  Spain
Presentation of the first virtual tours 360 of the Creative Loci Iacobi project

Presentation of the first virtual tours 360 of the Creative Loci Iacobi project

On 8 November we participated in the Steering Committee of the European project COSME CREATIVE LOCI IACOBI. We are already working on the contents and virtual reality technologies for the virtual tours, Video 360, sound immersive and storytelling that will improve the information that is offered along the roads of Santiago in Europe and the places of heritage of the UNESCO on the road.

The aim of this European project is to create new digital tools based on immersive technologies. All the content produced will be accessible on the creative map that is also being prepared in the Web of the European Federation of the roads of Santiago.

In our presentation we show the first virtual tours, a result of the production that is almost finished. Now we have to create the audio guide contents (in three languages), the music and the 3d sounds. All tours will have as a guide, a prominent historical character from each of the 8 territories of the project.

In the framework of the project will also create an audio-guide application of augmented reality, 3d models of the main patrimonial values of each territory, a tourist application that will contain a digital credential for the Pilgrim and a presentation of the project and its results.

COSME Project

Creative Loci Iacobi It is one of the projects financed by the program COSME 2014-2020 in which Malvado Group participates as partner with Tourism of Galicia (Spain), European Federation of the Roads of Santiago (France), municipality of Vila Pouca de Aguiar (Portugal), Tourism Federation of the Province of Namur (Belgium), Svento Jokubo Kelio Savivaldybiu Asociacija (Lithuania), Województwo Kujawsko-Pomorskie (Poland) and Xoia Software (Spain).

COSME is the European Union’s programme for the Competitiveness and growth of enterprises and SMEs. It facilitates access to finance, internationalization and markets. And it focuses especially on digital entrepreneurship to help European companies boost their digital transformation.

 


April 25, 2026 /  Members  /  Spain
4th Steering Committee of the Creative Locci Iacobi Project

4th Steering Committee of the Creative Locci Iacobi Project

Asturias hosted the 4th Steering Committee of the COSME Creative Locci Iacobi Project, which was held on December 20 in Oviedo, coinciding with the European Federation working visit to learn about the heritage and the Ways of Santiago in the Principality of Asturias, after its incorporation into the network.

This meeting, Alan Vela participated, responsible for the project by EASME, who was able to contrast the progress and fulfillment of the project’s objectives during its programming.

First virtual tours and design of augmented reality app

During the meeting, the first virtual tours and advancement of the design of augmented reality applications were presented by partners Malvado Group and Xoia Software. In addition, important aspects such as the Communication Plan of the project and the development of the products increased publication and application of tourist information and pilgrim’s credential were coordinated.

The other pending deliverables and the final project meeting, scheduled for September 2019 in Santiago de Compostela, were also scheduled.

 


April 25, 2026 /  France  /  Members
Agreement with the Holy Places of Undivided Christianity association

Agreement with the Holy Places of Undivided Christianity association

The European Federation of Saint James Way signed a cooperation agreement with the Holy Places of Undivided Christianity association on September 27 in Gorlitz, Germany.

 

Promoted by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation

The cultural route’s project “Holy places of Undivided Christianity” was born as the result of the historic meeting of Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill and Pope Francis in Havana (Cuba) on February 12, 2016. The initiator of the creation of the route was the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, which provided financial support to the project. The author of the idea is Miguel Palacio, a historian, journalist, ecclesiastical diplomat, adviser to the general director of the All-Russian State Library for Foreign Literature named after M.I. Rudomino, a participant of the meeting of Patriarch Kirill and Pope Francis and their translator at the talks.

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April 25, 2026 /  France  /  Members
First steering committee of the Creative Loci Iacobi Project

First steering committee of the Creative Loci Iacobi Project

Along with the celebration of the Federation’s annual assembly, Puy en Valay also hosted the presentation and first steering committee of the Creative Loci Iacobi Project on June 5.

The European project Creative Loci Iacobi aims to promote and give greater visibility to the roads of Santiago in Europe, using content and technologies augmented reality, virtual tours, video 360, sound immersive and storytelling that will make more compressive and practical the information that is offered to the pilgrims, as well as to potential tourists and other tourist agents along the roads of Santiago in Europe and the places of patrimony of the UNESCO in the Way.

Financed by the COSME Program for competitiveness an growth of enterprises and SMEs.

With a duration of 18 months, Creative Loci Iacobi is a project financed by the program COSME 2014-2020 in which Malvado Group participates as partner with Tourism of Galicia (Spain), European Federation of the Roads of Santiago (France), municipality of Vila Pouca de Aguiar (Portugal), Tourism Federation of the Province of Namur (Belgium), Svento Jokubo Kelio Savivaldybiu Asociacija (Lithuania), Województwo Kujawsko-Pomorskie (Poland) and Xoia Software (Spain).

COSME is the EU’s programme for competitiveness and growth of enterprises and SMEs. With the fundamental objective of facilitating access to finance, internationalization and markets, as well as creating an environment conducive to competitiveness and the culture of entrepreneurship, it focuses especially on digital entrepreneurship to help European companies to boost their digital transformation and fully benefit from the new, unprecedented opportunities emerging in the digital age, crucial to their competitiveness and growth.

 



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