Denver, CO: Colorado Front Range Chapter, “Fantastic Creatures on the Camino de Santiago”

Oct 10, 2019 7:00PM

Location

Westminster REI Store, 14696 Delaware St, Westminster, CO 80023

Event Contact Gene, Chris or Kris | Email

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This event is both a Chapter event and an REI event. Being an REI event, it will be advertised by them - it is likely to fill. Registering with REI is strongly recommended!
https://www.rei.com/events/93668/fantastic-creatures-on-the-camino-de-santiago/257841

Journey through real and magical realms on the medieval pilgrimage road of the Camino de Santiago across France and Spain… where fantastic creatures reside, hidden in hills, valleys, caves, wells, churches, chapels, rivers, seashores and wherever they choose to abide. From prehistory to antiquity to the medieval world, from cave paintings to ancient mythology, to medieval bestiaries to the works of JK Rowling, fantastic creatures have long captured the human imagination and have called us with their magic, super powers and symbolism.

Writer, trekker, anthropologist and Camino de Santiago expert Beebe Bahrami leads us as we explore this threshold between magic and reality on a magical mystery tour along the Camino de Santiago, the Way of St. James, the medieval pilgrimage path that is thickly inhabited all along the trail by many fantastic beasts, especially in their favorite places in southwestern French and across northern Spain. The Camino was a religious pilgrimage dedicated to journeying to Santiago de Compostela in Iberia’s far northwest, where lays the purported tomb of St. James the Greater. But medieval pilgrims and stone masons were a curious and merry lot of far-flung people from across the Old World, who carried it with them diverse stories, ideas and philosophies, many of which the stone masons engraved in church stone walls that still survive, or in stories locals still tell today.

This event is both a Chapter event and an REI event. Being an REI event, it will be advertised by them - it is likely to fill. Registering with REI is strongly recommended!
https://www.rei.com/events/93668/fantastic-creatures-on-the-camino-de-santiago/257841