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[QUOTE="dick bird, post: 1070307, member: 93571"] Numbers have fluctuated enormously over the centuries: "Some Approaches to the Archaeology of Christian Pilgrimage" Author(s): J. Stopford Source: World Archaeology , Jun., 1994, Vol. 26, No. 1, Archaeology of Pilgrimage (Jun., 1994), pp. 57-72 cites numbers of between half a million and two million arriving every year in Santiago in medieaval times. With the Reformation, Counter-Reformation and upheavals and wars of the 16th - 18th centuries numbers declined until by the 19th century there were practically none; leading the chapter of Santiago cathedral to try and revive the practice in 1870 and the more successful activities of Fr Elias and his contemporaries in the 1970's. As for empty villages, consider the example of Foncebadon, described in 1990s accounts by Shirley Maclaine and Nancy Frey as an abandoned wilderness infested by packs of marauding dogs. When I passed through in 2018 there was an albergue, two or three hotels and several thriving restaurants (and not a stray dog in sight). I think the camino will be still here long after I am past and gone. And considering what it has survived in the past, my money is on Europe being around for a while too. Those airfares do hurt though. [/QUOTE]
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