11.10.2022
Photo exhibition announcement
On Tuesday, October 18, in the gallery “St. Nikola Tavelić”, starting at 6:00 p.m., the photo exhibition “Camino de Santiago” will be officially opened. The author of the photos is Ivica Bota (67), a retired civil engineer. He lives with his family in Split. He made a pilgrimage to the tomb of the apostle James in the Santiago de Compostela and walked almost 900 km.
Pilgrimage of St. James is over 1,100 years old, and it starts from various directions that have developed over the centuries. Ivica walked the French road that starts from the small town of Saint Jean Pied de Port in France, crosses the Pyrenees into Spain and leads through Navarre, Burgos and Leon to Galicia, to Santiago de Compostela. He also continued to the beach in Finisterre, where he traditionally ends his pilgrimage by finding his scallop, a shell that, according to legend, was named after to St. James. That French way of St. James was declared the “Main Street of Europe” by the Council of Europe in 1987, and UNESCO declared it a world cultural heritage in 1993.
The exhibition is part of the “Camino Šibenik week” program as part of the opening of a new section of the Croatian Camino – Camino Šibenik. The Camino Šibenik week is organized by the Brotherhood of St. James in cooperation with the Tourist Board of the city of Šibenik, the Tourist Board of Marina, the Tourist Board of Primošten and the Tourist Board of Vodice.