Spanish term
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Native in: Spanish (Variant: Standard-Spain) 
Works in: German to Spanish, English to Spanish, Norwegian to Spanish, and 1 more.
HACER EL CAMINO DE SANTIAGO
Which of these -if any- do you think is the best way of referring to that famous pilgrimage across the north of Spain?
Thanx in advance
Non-PRO (1): Yvonne Gallagher
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Proposed translations
Go on (do) the pilgrimage to Santiago/walk the road to.../do the Camino de....
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Rachel Fell
: I'd say to walk the Camino de Santiago or to do the Camino de Santiago, the latter slightly more colloquial or informal: it's quite a well known thing, in my view
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william hill
: simply 'Do the Camino' is certainly what 'initiated' people say in English, without even mentioning Santiago
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Michele Fauble
26 mins
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philgoddard
: These are just synonyms of Barbara's version, and don't justify a separate answer.
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Of course they warrant a separate answer. Yes, they are all synonyms but, as was pointed out elsewhere, 'undertake' is a bit formal. I can only imagine it in a church document from the 16th century.I have never met a peregrino who 'undertook' the Camino.
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Lisa McCarthy
: I would naturally say 'do the Camino de Santiago' (which is what I did :-))
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:>))
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Barbara Cochran, MFA
: It isn't a road, it's a path, and "Santiago" is too general. Some people might think it refers to Santiago, Chile, if there is no other context.
2 hrs
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It is a road (sometimes dangerously close to traffic)...and a path...and a dried-up stream bed, and many other things. As for 'Santiago', we need to know context. But as Rachel says above, the Camino is quite a well-known thing.
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Beatriz Ramírez de Haro
3 hrs
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T o b i a s
: Agree with billhill
3 hrs
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franglish
: Do the Camino (de Santiago, depending on context).
3 hrs
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Stephen D. Moore
: "Go on the pilgrimage to Santiago, etc" gets my vote.
8 hrs
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James A. Walsh
: "I'm doing the Camino" is what I said to friends and family before I did it.
21 hrs
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AllegroTrans
22 hrs
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Yvonne Gallagher
: do the Camino
23 hrs
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Laudable Lady Linguist
Native in: English
Works in: Spanish to English, French to English, English to Spanish, and 3 more.
to undertake the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela
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philgoddard
: I don't think people will immediately understand Emilio's other suggestions.
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Thanks, phil.
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Michele Fauble
18 mins
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Thanks, Michele.
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Rachel Fell
: I think this sounds rather formal and too distant from how it is usually referred to
35 mins
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Oh, really? Not in my experience.
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El Hombre Joe
Native in: English (Variant: US)
Works in: Spanish to English, English to Spanish
follow the route of St. James
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AllegroTrans
: Whilst it is indeed the route of St. James, this is not what the source text says
21 hrs
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Hike the Camino de Santiago
A trip to Spain to hike the Camino de Santiago is being organized for young adults in the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend.
pparently we ( Mark and I, as far as I know, Reese and Bill aren't coming) are going to hike the Camino de Santiago de Compostela, a pilgrimage route through Spain.
We flew in and out of Paris to hike the Camino de Santiago across northern Spain in August of 2014, so why not check out Paris? Glad we did!
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Stephen D. Moore
: I think that for most people, "hike" will not convey the religious nature of the endeavor.
5 hrs
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Perfectly true. Didn't know I had to be religious to walk there. See references. Or not.
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philgoddard
9 hrs
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AllegroTrans
: many pilgrims don't actually hike, or only hike part of the way
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