{"id":393,"date":"2016-02-13T10:02:36","date_gmt":"2016-02-13T09:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/?p=393"},"modified":"2025-03-05T14:17:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T12:17:16","slug":"number-pilgrims-santiago-increase-10-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/actualidad\/numero-peregrinos-santiago-aumento-10-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"The number of pilgrims to Santiago increased by 10% in 2015."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A total of 262,515 people made a pilgrimage last year to Santiago de Compostela, which is 24,532 more people than in 2014 (a 10.31 % increase), the Xunta de Galicia has recently confirmed based on data provided by the <a href=\"https:\/\/oficinadelperegrino.com\/\">Pilgrim's Office<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to this office, which depends on the archdiocese of Compostela - and which issues the famous \"compostelana\" that certifies those who have traveled at least one hundred kilometers on foot or two hundred by bicycle or on horseback along the Camino - more than half of the pilgrims who made the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omnesmag.com\/actualidad\/cultura\/el-camino-de-santiago-y-la-ciudad-de-burgos\/\">Road to Santiago<\/a> in 2015 were foreigners, specifically 53.38 %, a total of 140,138 pilgrims. Those of Spanish nationality were a total of 122,377, the remaining 46.62 %.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Spanish are followed by Italians, Germans, Americans, Portuguese, French, British, Irish, Canadians, Koreans and Brazilians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The total number of pilgrims came from a total of 178 countries, 39 more than in 2014, demonstrating the pull of the Camino to attract visitors from all over the world. The so-called French Way attracted the largest number of pilgrims: more than 379,000 travelers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In view of these figures and this significant increase in pilgrims, it seems clear, as civil and ecclesiastical sources have also stressed, that the Camino de Santiago is still booming.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Un total de\u00a0262.515 personas peregrinaron el a\u00f1o pasado a Santiago de Compostela, lo que supone 24.532 personas m\u00e1s que en 2014 (un 10,31 % de incremento), ha confirmado recientemente la Xunta de Galicia en base a los datos facilitados por la Oficina del peregrino. Seg\u00fan esta oficina, que depende de la archidi\u00f3cesis compostelana \u2013y que [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12620,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,41],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualidad","category-espana","tag-camino-de-santiago","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}