Lo Importante es el Camino, acrylic on canvas, 81x81cm. Painted plein air in the town of Fromista, Spain, last summer, and exhibited in Fromista's gallery. This is the Church of Fromista, which is in the center of town. For this painting, I included a couple of views around town, on the left, we see the Pyrenees mountains from where hundred of pilgrims come following the path "camino" of Santiago de Compostela, and under the church I placed the small river that runs nearby. A good section of the road is along that lovely river. Fromista is one of the key towns along the road to Santiago de Compostela. The interesting fact about this pilmigrage, is that it was started for religious reasons, but today people of all faiths, and people of no faith, do it as an exploration of themselves, as a trip within. The path is what's important, really, not the arrival.
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