This article reflects on the anthropological aspect of pilgrimage, human walking as a metaphor to life, as a way of linking and perceiving religion, spirituality, life itself and tourism as forms of pilgrimage. In particular, the case of the Earth’s Romarias in Brazil will be looked at, as an example of liminariness/liminoid and communis. In addition, this article reflects on ‘new pilgrimage centres’, outside the religious sphere, such as pop culture spaces or visiting tourist sites and monuments of social and cultural remembrance. The aim is to understand where people have pilgrieved and the meaning of such pilgrimages. Whether tourism would also be a form of pilgrimage in this move away from religious grounds is asked. Or would the preliminary aspect of tourism be missing, which could be related to Bauman’s analysis of the tourist and the vagaby? It is suspected that in a globalised world places will lose their content and identity. People pass through the places, but the places no longer pass through them. In doing so, the walking also loses its preliminary function.