My goodness its gone quiet here. Everyone must be out walking...

Does anyone know the anticipated number of walkers expected during this Holy Year?


Paul in Canada

Hello

I donīt know anything about estimations but just in April there were 20.000 who got Santiago to get the "Compostela" and last year were a bit more than a half.

But there should be mostly tourist buses that stops in villages to get the stamp.

But last year there where a record of pilgrims as year after year but, here, in Spain, there are even tvspots about the camino or publicity in futbol machtes because of the Holly Year. A little bit anoying.

[www.archicompostela.org]

Byeeep

Manuel Mallrats,

Thanks for the information.

Barbara June

A notice was posted on Santiagobis by Johnnie Walker to say that 30,000 young people will take part in a Spanish International Youth Pilgrimage. They will walk at least 100 km each on various caminos, all to arrive in Santiago on the weekend of August 7th and 8th. They will receive compostelas by mail.

I'll bet that will be an amazing weekend for them in August but I'm not sure about anybody else who happens to be there.
Cecelia (Canada)

... crazy. Isīt like Circus

They will receive the credencials by email for selfprinting? thatīs would be quite unfair couse in every pilgrim office and albergue they give it (or sell it) in person. I had problems with that and spend money and time in it.

Hi Manual,
It sounds like you are confusing the credencial(the pilgrims passport) with the compostela (the certificate you receive in Santiago de Compostela after walking at least 100 km of one of the pilgrimage routes). The credencial is stamped as you go along and then handed in (temporarily) to the Pilgrims Office in Santiago where you are given a compostela.

Each youth will have a credencial which will be stamped as he or she walks one of the paths just like other pilgrims. They will hand the credenciales in to the Pilgrims Office in Santiago where the compostelas will be filled in. It is the compostelas which will be mailed out to the 30,000 youth - as I imagine it would be way too much work for the Pilgrims Office to fill in over 30,ooo compostelas in one weekend. Hope that clarifies the difference.
Cecelia

Yep, you are right. I read Credencial intead of Compostela.

Byeeeep!!

Manuel;

Any information yet on how many Compostelas were issued for May and June?


Paul in Canada

Hi Paul,
I'm not Manuel obviously but check out this site:
[peregrinossantiago.es]
It gives daily statistics and also for the month. Very interesting.
Best
Cecelia

Thanks Cecelia.


Paul in Canada

Hi Paul and everyone,
I'm surprised at the number of pilgrims who are still pouring into Santiago de Compostela - 1649 today alone. I would have thought that anyone who walked in July would have wanted to be in SdeC for the 25th - but apparently not.For anyone who hasn't seen these numbers, these stats are from [peregrinossantiago.es]
"During the month of july 2010, 40.690 pilgrims were received at the Pilgrim's Office. The number of pilgrims in the past Holy Year, 2004, during the same period was 31.896. Of those pilgrims, 18.995 (46,68%) were women and 21.695 (53,32%) men. 36.054 (88,61%) pilgrims arrived on foot, 4.424 (10,87%) by bicicle, 203 (0,50%) on horseback, and 9 (0,02%) pilgrims on wheel-chair."

"Starting Points:
Most of the pilgrims received in this period started their Way to Santiago in: Sarria: 9.948 (24,45%); Cebreiro: 3.135 (7,70%); Tui: 2.950 (7,25%); S. Jean P. Port: 2.457 (6,04%); Ponferrada: 2.195 (5,39%); Roncesvalles: 1.751 (4,30%); León: 1.658 (4,07%); Astorga: 1.483 (3,64%); etc.

The Chosen Routes:
Most of the pilgrims chose Frances-Camino de: 28.188 (69,28%); Portugues-Camino: 5.072 (12,46%); Norte-Camino de: 3.124 (7,68%); Via de la Plata: 2.040 (5,01%); Primitivo-Camino: 1.086 (2,67%); etc."

And just for the record, according to the same site mentioned above:
"During the month of july 2009, 26.212 pilgrims were received at the Pilgrim's Office. The number of pilgrims in the past Holy Year, 2004, during the same period was 31.896. Of those pilgrims, 11.366 (43,36%) were women and 14.846 (56,64%) men. 22.094 (84,29%) pilgrims arrived on foot, 4.060 (15,49%) by bicicle, 58 (0,22%) on horseback, and 0 (0,00%) pilgrims on wheel-chair.
Cecelia

Just back there. Arrived in santiago on 24th having stayed in monto gozo the day before. The last 180 km was not really camino somtimes, struggle to get a place to stay was not always sucessful for everyone. Some people got sick with vomitting. The nights in the last 5 days were cold and the path was congested with pilgrims. We walked long distances and in the evenings it was more peacful.

My overall thought on this.. do not walk in a holy year unless you allow yourself to be totally at the wimm of what ever will happen. This works more or less.
A bit from up to San dominigo mostly.
[www.youtube.com]

Love to you guys,

paul

Hey Paul, Very sweet video. Pulls at my old heart strings and makes me want to get back out there!
Welcome home
Cecelia (Vancouver, Canada)