How It All Started
In 2008, a group of pilgrims returning from one stage of the Way of St. James agreed the journey had given them so much that they now wanted to give something back. This idea led to the founding of Ultreia, named for a popular pilgrim’s greeting and a song propelling one “onward and upward.”
Initially, our activities revolved mainly around providing information resources for pilgrims travelling to France and Spain. We also started issuing a pilgrim’s credential. With a growing number of resources on foreign routes, we started shifting our focus to Czech routes. We are a transit country with pilgrimage routes connecting to Poland, Germany, and Austria.
We maintain close ties with cities, municipalities, villages, and individual pilgrims, which has helped us in creating infrastructure making travel for the pilgrims as smooth as possible. Thanks to local volunteers, patrons of individual stages, we can provide up-to-date information on accommodation and food options. We also cooperate with local tourist centers to expand the number of places with access to travel guides and issuing credential stamps.
But above all, we simply love travelling on foot through the countryside. We organize pilgrim walks allowing us to get to know our beautiful country better. We love walking today as we did in Ultreia’s early days.
If you would like to support us, please check out the Donate section.
The association
This association was founded in order to support our activities. Ultreia z.s. is an open association of friends of St. James’ Way and travel on foot in general. Membership is open to anyone interested in pilgrims and pilgrimages.
Photos from the annual meeting of pilgrims 2019
2008 - 2016
Jan Bím
- 2x 7letý projekt, společně s Michalem Horažďovským (2005 - 2018),
- z putování vznikla inspirace k založení spolku Ultreia,
- nyní doprovázím na osobních poutí.
2016 - 2019
Olga Jankovcová
- 2005 - 2012 účastnice sedmiletého projektu cesty do Santiaga de Compostela,
- zakládající členka spolku Ultreia,
- stálá členka výboru spolku ,gestor a autorka svatojakubské Východočeské trasy.
2019 - 2022
Tomáš Jindřich
- Autor severní poloviny Moravskoslezské trasy a její gestor,
- vedení poutí spojených s výsadbou alejí,
- provázení nevidomých na svatojakubských a cyrilometodějských trasách.
Association Ultreia z.s. it is financed essentially mainly from pilgrims' money and donations from specific people. And partly from our mini electronic shop. Contributions from regional authorities, municipalities and other institutions are used for specific projects. (marking of the Ways of St. James, printing of leaflets, other promotional and informational materials and elements in the field)
Therefore, we ask you to participate in the financing of our association in the form of a donation.
Maybe you got some important information from us on this website. The minimum annual costs for website operation, graphic work, preparation of materials are more than 10,000 CZK. You can appreciate our work with a reasonable donation to our account:
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Member´s contributions
Regular and associate members of the association pay an annual contribution of CZK 257. Write Membership contribution and your name in the message. Bank details are above.
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Sponzoři
Partneři
Priatelia Svätojakubskej cesty na Slovensku
Farnost svatého Jakuba v Praze Kunraticích
www.spanelsko.info - Podrobný informační web o Španělsku
Hanibal.cz - nákupem podpoříte provoz tohoto webu
Výtvarné studio - Jitka Králová
Španělské velvyslanectví v Praze
Univerzita sv. Cyrila a Metoda v Trnave
Fränkische St. Jakobus-Gesellschaft Würzburg e.V.
Centrála cestovního ruchu jižní Morava
Jindřich Smítka - poutník, publicista a cestovatel