The Way of Sant James

Between January 1 and October 22, the Pilgrim’s Office registered a total of 262,913 pilgrims who collected their Compostelas after travelling one of the Jacobean routes. This meant that, in the third week of the month of October 2016 the global figure of pilgrims arriving during all of last year, which amounted to 262,515 pilgrims, was already exceeded.

Thus, the global figure of pilgrims who were interested in collecting the Compostela in comparison with the same period in 2015 increased by 5.22%, with more than 13,000 pilgrims welcomed than between January 1 and October 22 of 2015.

These results corroborate the fact that the Camino de Santiago is our most universal icon, our main touristic product and the backbone of European culture as the Jacobean routes are undergoing a constant increase.

Foreign Pilgrims
So far this year, a total of 118,664 pilgrims from Spain have arrived, that is to say, l 45.13% of the total pilgrims. A total of 144,249 pilgrims were foreigners, a total of 54.87% of the pilgrims who arrived in Santiago in this period were from other countries.

There were a total of 168 nationalities. Specifically and in this order, after Spain the most numerous groups of pilgrims were from Italy, Germany, the United States, Portugal, France, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Brazil, Korea, Poland, Holland, Denmark and Mexico.

In total, in comparison with those registered in the same period of 2015, 11,876 more foreign pilgrims arrived in Compostela. Yesterday a total of 1,075 pilgrims arrived in Santiago, 611 of whom, that is to say 56.84%, were foreigners.

Pilgrims by Ways
By Ways, the figures of pilgrims registered in this period amounted to: 165,934 in the French Way; 49,746 in the Portuguese Way; 16,566 in the North Way; 11,488 in the Primitive Way; 9,278 I the English Way, 8,504 in the Vía de la Plata and 265 in the Winter Way. 716 pilgrims travelled by the Fisterra-Muxía Route to Santiago and 412 arrived by other routes.