Camino de Santiago de Compostela

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With the opening of this shelter for walkers, completes a network of shelters in the county, located in Pertusa, Pueyo de Fañanás, Sarsa, Bolea and Ena. So far, in Huesca, pilgrims resorted to hostels in the city center and those who had more money in the backpack hostels like the Pedro I. Only in the latter place, according to data available to the association, last year there were 70 pilgrims.
In the past three years, the association has registered more than 5,000 pilgrims through the city. A figure that will rise to this new place to stay for free. Above all, be a place to stop people who made the French way. He said Aznar, is "supermasificado" and believes that many people will this stage of Huesca. "It makes many people, Aznar says," especially cyclists in summer. "
Centuries ago, Huesca occupied an important place in the Pilgrim's Way that comes from Catalonia. Between the eleventh and eighteenth centuries, the city had more than 20 hospitals for pilgrims.

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This is a route where the facilities are still in development and I was pleased to learn that Julio Aznar and the local group have got an albergue going. They are enthusiastic and have done splendid work on improving the signing of yellow arrows along the route and, unlike 2007, I did not get lost more than once in 2009. This is a tremendously scenic and historic route, although challenging, and is a jewel for the pilgrim who doesn't mind a bit of solitude and who has enough Spanish to manage.

It is important for information on the albergues to be posted on the web or otherwise made easily available-- neither the web, the Aragonese tourism office nor anybody at all, gave information in 2009 about albergues in Pertusa or Pueyo de Fañanás--indeed, it wasn't clear if there was any accommodation at all. As far as I know, everyone believes that the albergue in Ena has been closed for several years.

As well, perhaps they will do something about the loutish young priest at the Cathedral in Huesca who told me to buzz off.