Description
Folded size: 7.8 x 7.8 inches. Unfolded: 15.75x15.75 inches This is a small, portable, packable game to play & remember the Camino. It is called "The Game of the Goose" it is a goose chase in essence & easy to play. Take it with you to play with other pilgrims at the cafes along the way or play at home to remember the places you saw on the frances. Description GAME OF THE GOOSE OF THE CAMINO DE SANTIAGO. It is based on the French Way for being the best known. On the board you can see the 63 squares that make up the game of the goose & in each of them we represent the most characteristic of that stage of the Camino. PARCHÍS OF THE WAY OF SANTIAGO. The four scenes represented in the starting blocks refer to the different landscapes & typical scenes of the Camino. The goal for everyone who plays is the same as the pilgrims: reach the goal, get to Santiago de Compostela. Presentation of the product. Folded & shrink-wrapped. Board printed on both sides, game of the goose on one side & Parcheesi of the Way on the other. 6 die-cut figures representing different pilgrims & 16 circular tokens, 4 of each colour. 4 dice of different colors (red, blue, green & yellow) Dropdown with descriptions in 6 languages Spanish, English, French, German, Italian & Portuguese) The Game of the Goose or Juego de la Oca is a very popular entertainment in Spain. It is a board game in which each player advances through a board according to their fortune with the dice. The snail-shaped board is made up of 63 squares & the winner is the first one to reach the last square, called the Great Goose. What very few of us knew is that by moving along this board we were, in reality, doing the Camino de Santiago. This is supported by numerous voices that point to the Order of the Knights Templar as authors of this game. An entertainment that, in reality, would be a symbolic map of the Camino de Santiago. The origin of the Game of the Goose is uncertain. There are theories that suggest that it could be a creation of the Greeks during the siege of Troy. Its most remote antecedent can be found in the Phaistos disk, dated 2000 BC. Another widespread theory is that it was born in Florence by the Medici, who spread it throughout Europe. It would come to Spain through a gift from Francisco de Medici to Felipe II, causing a furor at Spanish court. But the theory that matters to us today is that of the Templar origin of the Game of the Goose. According to this hypothesis, the game was invented by the Order of the Temple, whose members were in charge of protecting the pilgrims who walked to holy cities such as Santiago, Rome or Jerusalem. Following the Path of the Geese & the Stars The Templar theory ensures that the goose would be a symbolic guide or an encrypted map of the Camino de Santiago Francés, the most popular of the time. The game of the goose is related to the so-called Way of Geese & the Way of the Stars, symbolizing a symbolic journey from east to west, like the Camino itself. The
