Jacobean pilgrimage attracted people and societies from all over Europe in the Middle Ages; also from the “Distant Europe”: the so-called Scandinavian countries — Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland — and above all, the English, Scottish, Irish and Flemish. All of them helped establish what we know today as the English Way.

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They came to Galicia by sea from their respective ports, and arrived in Ferrol or A Coruña — and also in Viveiro or Ribadeo, on the coast of Lugo. The strategic location of the ports of these two important Galician cities evidently promoted the route.

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