WYD – Walking route to Cuatro Vientos

Saturday, August 20, 2011

Alicia Ambrosio

Alicia gives us the basics about today’s walking route that will take pilgrims from downtown Madrid to Cuatro Vientos Air Base for the prayer vigil and closing Mass with Pope Benedict XVI.

WYD – Cuatro Vientos will be a giant celebration

Friday, August 19, 2011

Salt + Light Media

World Youth Day in Madrid ends this weekend with a giant celebration. The setting for it all is Cuatro Vientos, an air base whose length is equivalent to 48 football fields–an area capable of hosting the over one million people expected to attend the events with the Holy Father. Fr. Javier Cremades, in charge of […]

WYD – All about the shower facilities

Sunday, August 14, 2011

Alicia Ambrosio

Madrid in August is hot, hot, hot. We’re talking two-showers-a-day hot. However, most pilgrims will be housed in group accommodation venues which means either a school gym, a community centre, or a parish hall. All spaces can sleep a large group, but don’t normally house young people for a full week. These accommodation venues have been outfitted […]